Winrich von Kniprode

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Winrich von Kniprode

...They also had territories in Sicily, Armenia, Cyprus, Syria, and other places. Their rule in Prussia reached its zenith during the reign of Grand Master Winrich von Kniprode (1351-82), but the Teutonic Knights, whose original mission was to fight against pagans, lost their raison d'être with the conversion of Lithuania to Christianity (1386), and within Prussia, aristocrats rose to power as Štendé (classes) and began to threaten the rule of the Teutonic Knights. In the battle against the Polish-Lithuanian allied forces that began in 1409, the Teutonic Knights suffered a major defeat (Battle of Tannenberg, 1410). ...

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Japanese:

…その他にもシチリア,アルメニア,キプロス,シリアなどにも所領があった。プロイセンにおける支配は,総長ウィンリッヒ・フォン・クニプローデWinrich von Kniprode(在位1351‐82)の時代に最盛期を迎えたが,本来異教徒との戦いを使命とするドイツ騎士修道会は,リトアニアのキリスト教への改宗(1386)によってその存在意義を失い,プロイセン内部にも貴族層がシュテンデ(等族)として台頭し,騎士修道会の支配を脅かしはじめていた。1409年にはじまるポーランド・リトアニア連合軍との戦いにおいて,ドイツ騎士修道会は大敗を喫した(タンネンベルクの戦,1410)。…

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