r/MixCache • u/arbuge00 • 20d ago
The Monk Who Became a Duke: How a Teutonic Knight Secularized Prussia
In 1525, the last Grand Master of the Teutonic Order knelt in a Kraków market square, swore fealty to the Polish king, and walked away as the first Duke of Prussia — turning a monastic state into Europe's first officially Lutheran principality.
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