The death of Emperor Henry VI from…

1198 CE

The death of Emperor Henry VI from malaria on September 28, 1197, has caused an important change: a number of German crusaders who had arrived in Palestine decide to return home.

In order to fill the gap, the German princes and bishops, together with those of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, militarize the House of the Hospitallers of Saint Mary of the Teutons in Jerusalem in 1198, making it a religious order of knights.

The new order is put under a monastic and military rule like that of the Templars and Hospitallers.

It receives privileges from Popes Celestine III and Innocent III and extensive grants of land, not only in the kingdom of Jerusalem but also in Germany and elsewhere.

The members, who are nobles, take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and come to be called the Teutonic Knights.

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Acre > 'Akko Israel Israel View →

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Al-Adil I View → Amalric II of Jerusalem View → Henry II, Count of Champagne View → Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor View → Isabella I of Jerusalem View → Pope Celestine III View → Pope Innocent III View → Richard I of England View →

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Arab people View → Kurdish people View → Germans View → Muslims, Sunni View → Syrian people View → Flemish people View → Holy Roman Empire View → Turkmen people View → French people (Latins) View → Christians, Roman Catholic View → Assassins View → Jerusalem, Latin Kingdom of View → Palestine, Frankish (Outremer) View → Italians (Latins) View → Anglo-Normans View → Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem View → Templar, Knights (Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon) View → England, (Plantagenet, Angevin) Kingdom of View → Damascus, Ayyubid Dynasty of View → Egypt, Ayyubid Sultanate of View → Teutonic Knights of Acre (House of the Hospitalers of Saint Mary of the Teutons in Jerusalem) View → Cyprus, Kingdom of View →

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Crusades, The View → Muslim Dynastic War of 1196-1200 View →

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