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TEUTONIC KNIGHT IN HABIT, 14th CENTURY

An extract from Armies of the Middle Ages, Volume 2
by Ian Heath

TEUTONIC KNIGHT IN HABIT, 14th CENTURY in ‘Armies of the Middle Ages, Volume 2’ by Ian Heath

97. TEUTONIC KNIGHT IN HABIT, 14th CENTURY

This is the Hochmeister Dietrich von Altenburg (1335-41), taken from a miniature on the official investiture document of 1337 showing Emperor Ludwig IV authorising the Order to conquer Lithuania. He wears the Order’s white habit and mantle with a black cross on the left breast, plus the obligatory beard that all brethren had to wear. His hair is long (all Germans wore their hair long, often to the shoulder-blades, from about this date through to the end of the era), but is still tonsured.

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See also Conrad of Thuringia, Hochmeister, on the Sarcophagus of Elisabeth in the Teutonic Order Elisabethkirche in Marburg, Hesse, Germany, c.1370AD.