The Reformation in Europe, which had officially…

The Reformation in Europe, which had officially begun in 1517 with Martin Luther and his Ninety-five Theses, greatly changes the Baltic region.

Its ideas had come quickly to the Livonian Confederation and by the 1520s are widespread.

Language, education, religion and politics are transformed.

Church services are now conducted in the vernacular instead of the Latin previously used.

After the Teutonic Knights’ grand master, the thirty-five-year-old Albert of Brandenburg, converts in 1525 to Lutheranism and declares Prussia a secular hereditary duchy under Polish suzerainty, the Livonian Knights resume their independence.