Teutonic Knights
- a military and religious order of German knights, priests, and lay brothers, originally enrolled c.1191 as the Teutonic Knights of St Mary of Jerusalem条顿骑士团(由日耳曼骑士、牧师、平信徒修士组成的一个军事宗教团, 大约于1191年最早组团成为耶路撒冷的圣玛丽条顿骑士)。
They became a great sovereign power through conquests made in campaigns against Germany's non-Christian neighbours, such as Prussia and Livonia from 1225. Abolished by Napoleon in 1809, the order was re-established in Vienna as an honorary ecclesiastical institution in 1834 and maintains a titular existence.