Added 2024-12-20 16:48:39 +0000 UTC
Healing with a sword 🗡️ Now the Teutonic Order is a quiet organization that helps the poor and people in need, mainly by engaging in medical activities ⛑️ But in the 13th century it was the strongest political player in Europe and the only knightly order that was able to build a state with its own economy 🤯 Starting with the example of the Order of the Hospitallers and other knightly-monastic orders - the Teutons were a completely harmless organization created to help compatriots during the Crusades in Jerusalem. They even had a kind and sincere motto: "Help - heal - protect" 🙏 However, later the Teutons became important figures at the political arena, and European leaders used the army of the Teutonic Knights as mercenaries in the battle against political opponents 🏰 Soon the era of crusades began against the pagans, in particular against the Prussians. On their lands, the knights carried out a very cruel colonial policy, almost completely destroying the local population! Thanks to the patronage of the Pope, organized robberies and seizures of the economies of entire states, the order was able to significantly strengthen its influence and begin minting its own coins and even compete with the Hanseatic League in economics 😵💫 Of course, centuries later, many European states got tired of living next to such warlike, economically strong and cunning fellas 😤 And by the end of the 15th century, after a series of bloody and epic wars between Catholics, the order lost its power and subsequently was no longer able to regain its former influence... Do you think that the founders of this order knew that it would turn into a military-economic machine when they chose such a motto? 🫠 #cute #teen #babyface #nerd #skinny
