[quote=@Sarmatian]
Right, it's been a while since I've done my reading.  I read William Urban's [i]Teutonic Knights[/i] book, and aside from some video games and online research, that's where most of my knowledge comes from.

They were actually doing something similar in Hungary, I think.  The King at the time had them defending against the Cumans, but the King's son believed they were "building a kingdom within a kingdom" or something, and so when the King died and the son became the next monarch, the Teutonic Knights decided it was time to up and leave.  I think that's when Hermann von Salza had them sent to Prussia, as he saw it as a great training ground before sending his knights to Outremer.
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I have the exact same book, and I am curious about the crusades and the Catholic knightly orders, like the Teutonic Knights and the Knights Templar. I ordered the book and Malcolm Barber's [b]The New Knighthood[/b] a few weeks ago, and have been them for some time now.