Person

Ulrich von Jungingen

Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights

b. 1360 CE – d. 1410 CE World The Great Crossroads

Ulrich von Jungingen (8 January 1360 – 15 July 1410) is the 26th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from 1407 to 1410.

His policy of confrontation with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland sparks the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War and leads to disaster for the Order in the Battle of Grunwald.