Tradition connects the establishment of the order with the establishment of a German hospital in Jerusalem.
Around 1191 the Pope recognized her as an order under the name Hospital of Saint Mary of the Germans from Jerusalem.
Initially it had a medical and charitable character, but in 1198 it also took on a military character. It is at this time that the Order of Teutonic Knights was born.
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