History of the Crusades

the Crusades Episode 255, the Baltic Crusades, the Prussian Crusade Part 21, a less fuzzy end.

Hello again.

Last week we arrived at a point in the timeline which some scholars view as being the end of the

Prussian Crusade. Yet here we are with another episode on the

Prussian Crusade. Confused, well to try and put your mind at ease, the Prussian Crusade is, in some senses, already at an end.

The borders of Prussia are now finalised, and the pagan population within those borders is mostly

subdued, with an emphasis on the word mostly.

We will be looking in this episode at those pagans who are still shaking their fists at their

Christian overlords in Prussia and we will see how they are fairing.

Really, this episode will aim to take the Prussian Crusade to its final, total and non-fuzzy end.

Okay, now, and non-fuzzy end.

Okay, now before we conclude the Prussian Crusade, there are important events taking

place in the Holy Land which we need to follow as these events will have a huge impact on the

future of the Teutonic Order and on the Baltic Crusades. Now if any of you have good memories for dates you will

have noticed as we proceed along the timeline for the Baltic Crusades that we are approaching an event which pretty much spelled the end of the Middle Eastern Crusades, the fall of Acre in the year 1291.

Now we have covered the fall of acre in our episodes on the Middle Eastern Crusades,

but what we didn't cover was the strange behind the scenes shenanigans which occurred

in the upper echelons of the Teutonic Order in Acre at this time. Now along with the Templars and the hospitals the

Knights of the Teutonic Order were heavily involved in the defense of Acre, which was in effect an attempt to keep hold of the

final Latin Christian foothold in the Middle East.

The current Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Grand Master Bertchard, was actually

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