Monastic Orders

>>1638225
The teutonic order carved out it's own little state in the baltics from pagan kingdoms, they were probably the most successful of all of them.

>>1638283
the precursor to prussia, would you count them and the livonians as the same or different?

>>1638225
Who has the biggest cock is always a difficult question to answer.

Unrelated, what amuses me is the people hating the French and worshiping the very French Templars and Hospitalers. Those two orders did impressive things and, some have argued, were the closest thing the crusaders had to a professionnal, highly trained and disciplined standing army (made of ze French cowards).

>>1638342
People forget that the Kingdom of Jerusalem was mostly ruled over by French dukes, I've always been a fan of the Teutons I'll admit I'm a prussia pro

>>1638327
They started as separate entities and made union later, so personally I would count them as different. (Also, different anon from the one you're asking.)

Knights Hospitaller looked the coolest in my opinion.

>Which Catholic military order did the best job getting their asses kicked during a 200 year period of one military disaster after another

>>1638225
Teutonic Knights were the most successful but the Knights of Malta were the most resilient.

>>1638484
>Being this much of a faggot

>>1638225

The Order of St. James helped with the Reconquista.

>>1638572
You're the one talking about knights and Paladins, Gaylord.

>>1638572
He is right though. Crusaders were dog shit.

>teutons
got their shit pushed in by a bunch of farmers with pitchforks

>>1638225
bump

>>1639364
If you're referring to Grunwald those were certainly no "farmers with pitchforks" but some of the greatest soldiers of Europe at the time.

>>1639364
>look how retarded I am

>>1638342
this.

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>>1638225
Why haven't you posted Order Hospitallar?
Also would you count Portugal's Military Order of Christ as a Crusader order? They're literally crusader's but rebranded.

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>>1638225

>>1642437
>Why haven't you posted Order Hospitallar?
He did?

>>1642465
>kills christian europeans

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>>1642473

>>1638358
>Not knowing the Teutons slaughtered thousands of ethnic Prussians while they were there.
>Not knowing these Prussians left to Poland and Lithuania who saw it as their right to rid Eastern Europe of the scourge
>Not knowing it was Poland who created Lithuania out of the Teutons ashes, leaving nothing between them in common
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