Banner of the Teutonic Order (B)

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Banner of the Teutonic Order

The Teutonic Order (the German Order) receives their cross-flag from the Pope around its founding in 1190. The banner is illustrated in a manuscript from 1270-75 which deals with the Order's first grandmaster. A manuscript from the middle of the 15th century mentions that the banner in 1410 should have been used by the order's marshal under the Battle of Grunwald in present-day Poland.

Sources

Banner of the Teutonic Order 01 (B)

Source type (B):
Manuscript.
Name:
Wolfram <von Eschenbach>: Willehalm (Fragment).
Author:
-
Current location:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany (BSB Cgm 193,III - f.3r).
Place of origin:
Saxony (district of Quedlinburg / Halberstadt).
Dating:
1270 - 1275.
Note:
Willehalm receives "the banner of the realm" (Reichsfahne).

Banner of the Teutonic Order 02 (B)

Source type (B):
Manuscript.
Name:
Banderia Prutenorum.
Author:
-
Current location:
Biblioteka Jagiello?ska, Kraków, Poland (BJ Rkp. 10001 - f.10).
Place of origin:
Prussia (Poland).
Dating:
1415-1480.

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