TEUTONIC ORDER, DEUTSCHER ORDEN, Kopicki 8986d, Date c. 1317-1328 AD, BI Silver Brakteat Silesia

★ Good very fine condition - sharply strucked - well centered - nice dark cabinet toning ★
MEDIEVAL GERMAN COINS, TEUTONIC ORDER
Reign: Deutscher Orden, Staat des Deutschen Ordens
Mint: Silesia (Schlesien), Pomerania (Pommern)
Date: c. 1317/1328 AD
Nominal: Brakteat (Bracteate)
Material: BI Silver
Diameter: c. 16mm
Weight: 0.20g
Reference: Kopicki 8986d (R)
Reference: Paszkiewicz T.9.7
Obverse: Latin cross, two small crosses on the sides
Inscription: -
Translation: -
Comment: The Teutonic Order, also known as the Teutonic Knights or Teutonic Order, is a Roman Catholic religious order. The full name is Order of the Brothers of the German Hospital of St Mary in Jerusalem, Latin Ordo fratrum domus hospitalis Sanctae Mariae Teutonicorum Ierosolimitanorum. The origins of the order lie in a field hospital run by merchants from Bremen and Lübisch during the Third Crusade around 1190 AD in the Holy Land during the siege of the city of Acre. On 19 February 1199 AD, Pope Innocent III confirmed the transformation of the hospital community into an order of knights and the conferral of the Knights of St John and the Knights Templar for the brothers of the German House of St Mary in Jerusalem. Following the elevation of the hospital community to a religious order of knights, the members of the originally charitable community became involved in the Holy Roman Empire, the Holy Land, the Mediterranean region and Transylvania during the 13th century and took part in the German colonisation of the East. This led to a series of settlements with varying degrees of longevity. From the end of the 13th century, the Teutonic Order state founded in the Baltic region played a central role. The Teutonic Order State or State of the Teutonic Order was the territory of the Teutonic Order in the period from 1230 to 1561 AD. The core of the state comprised the area of Old Prussia between the Vistula and Memel rivers (later West and East Prussia) as well as the independent masterdom of Livonia in the Baltic region, which until 1561 AD included present-day Estonia and Latvia. The bailiwicks in the Holy Roman Empire, which were directly subordinate to the Grand Master, can also be counted as part of the state of the Order. At the end of the 14th century, it covered an area of around 200,000 square kilometres.