State · 1230 – 1525

State of the Teutonic Order

A state of 1230 – 1525 — 295 years in Europe. It was replaced by Royal Prussia and followed by Duchy of Prussia and Terra Mariana. The atlas records 50 things within it — wars and battles 14 · treaties 2 · people 34. Its line of rulers holds 38 people, 36 with dated terms.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 295 years; 1230 – 1525
Rulers: 38; the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
Most ground: 191,400 km²; in 1402
Within it: 50; recorded rows
Symbols: 3; on record, with years

Map: State of the Teutonic Order in 1402, its borders in gold among its neighbours — State of the Teutonic Order in 1402, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 191,400 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

State of the Teutonic Order in 1236, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

State of the Teutonic Order in 1402, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

After it

Duchy of Prussia · followed by · 1525 – 1618
Royal Prussia · replaced by
Terra Mariana · followed by · 1207 – 1561

Rulers

The line of Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights - the office this state names as its head of state.

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Heinrich von Tunna	1209 – 1239	30 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Hermann von Salza	1239 – 1240	1 year	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Conrad of Thuringia	1240 – 1244	4 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Gerhard von Malberg	1240 – 1244	4 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Heinrich von Hohenlohe	1249 – 1252	3 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Gunther von Wüllersleben	1252 – 1256	4 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Poppo von Osterna	1256 – 1273	17 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Anno von Sangershausen	1273 – 1282	9 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Hartmann von Heldrungen	1283 – 1290	7 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Burchard von Schwanden	1283 – 1290	7 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Konrad von Feuchtwangen	1297 – 1303	6 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Gottfried von Hohenlohe	1303 – 1311	8 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Siegfried von Feuchtwangen	1311 – 1324	13 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Karl von Trier	1324 – 1330	6 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Werner von Orseln	1331 – 1335	4 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Luther von Braunschweig	1335 – 1341	6 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Dietrich von Altenburg	1342 – 1345	3 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Ludolf König von Wattzau	1345 – 1351	6 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Winrich von Kniprode	1351 – 1382	31 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Heinrich Dusemer	1351 – 1382	31 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Konrad Zöllner von Rotenstein	1382 – 1390	8 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Konrad von Wallenrode	1393 – 1407	14 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Ulrich von Jungingen	1407 – 1410	3 years	died in battleWikidata's manner of death
Konrad von Jungingen	1407 – 1410	3 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	sibling
Heinrich von Plauen	1414 – 1422	8 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Michael Küchmeister von Sternberg	1422 – 1441	19 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Paul von Rusdorf	1441 – 1449	8 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Konrad von Erlichshausen	1450 – 1467	17 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Ludwig von Erlichshausen	1467 – 1470	3 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Heinrich Reuß von Plauen	1470 – 1477	7 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Heinrich Reffle von Richtenberg	1477 – 1489	12 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Martin Truchseß von Wetzhausen	1489 – 1497	8 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Johann von Tiefen	1498 – 1510	12 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Frederick of Saxony	1511 – 1525	14 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Albert, Duke of Prussia	1511 – 1525	14 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Walter von Cronberg	1527 – 1543	16 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone

38 rulers, 36 with terms dated as terms, covering 1209 – 1543. Median reign 8 years. 6 of 35 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

4,000 km² in 1240, 38,400 km² in 1525; at its largest 191,400 km² in 1410. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedFlag of the State of the Teutonic Order · Public domain
flag, undatedFlag of the Teutonic Order · Public domain
coat of arms, undatedInsignia Germany Order Teutonic · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1200 – 129919 rows · 5 wars and battles

Battle on the Ice · battle · 1242
Battle of Durbe · battle · 1260
Conrad of Thuringia · ruler · 1206 – 1240
Konrad von Feuchtwangen · ruler · 1230 – 1296
Poppo von Osterna · ruler · 1200 – 1267
Gottfried von Hohenlohe · ruler · 1265 – 1310
Battle of Aizkraukle · battle · 1279
Dietrich von Altenburg · ruler · 1250 – 1341

and 11 more in the atlas.

1300 – 139912 rows · 1 wars and battles

Ulrich von Jungingen · ruler · 1360 – 1410
Konrad von Jungingen · ruler · 1355 – 1407
Heinrich von Plauen · ruler · 1370 – 1429
Winrich von Kniprode · ruler · 1310 – 1382
Siegfried von Feuchtwangen · ruler · 1300 – 1311
Konrad von Wallenrode · ruler · 1330 – 1393
Paul von Rusdorf · ruler · 1385 – 1441
Konrad von Erlichshausen · ruler · 1390 – 1449

and 4 more in the atlas.

1400 – 149915 rows · 7 wars and battles

Albert, Duke of Prussia · ruler · 1490 – 1568
Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War · war · 1409 – 1411
Thirteen Years' War · war · 1454 – 1466
Frederick of Saxony · ruler · 1474 – 1510
Hunger War · war · 1414
Johann von Tiefen · ruler · 1440 – 1497
Siege of Marienburg · battle · 1410
Treaty of Melno · treaty · 1422

and 7 more in the atlas.

1500 – 15991 row · 1 wars and battles

Polish–Teutonic War · war · 1519 – 1521

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood295 years
stood longer than 72% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held191,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 57% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century1.7
had more wars on record per century than 97% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median8 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 29% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record38
has more rulers on record than 96% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 0 causes the record names and 3 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 2 have every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Demographic-structural breakdown
Goldstone 1991 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: 2 of its 3 conditions held here (it needs 2), and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — unrest, adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- overlapping reigns — rival claimants — within 20 y, or 3 or more changes of ruler within 20 y, or 2 or more reigns of two years or less within 20 y, or a monarch deposed or killed within 20 y — rivalClaimants -14
- a war the state is fighting, still under way, or a war the state fought, ended within 10 y — warEnded
Challenge, failed response and dissolution
Toynbee 1934 · Toynbee & Somervell 1946
Applies by its own logic: 2 of its 2 conditions held here (it needs all of them), and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — the state's ending.
- territory shrank by 25% over the 100 y ending 25 y before — territory -73
- unrest, adverse regime change or atrocity within 100 y in the state, or a war the state is fighting, still under way, or a war the state fought, ended within 50 y, or battle within 50 y in the state — warEnded

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1200 – 1555, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1402, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q156020 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.