>>2993708 lb
>Marienburg Is connected to the Merovingians
Reading now, so understand more yes..
This video shows evidence that the TK came from Switzerland in 1223. Would make sense given what i read elsewhere about them mastering the practice of seignorage.
Long but the relevant piece is right at the start:
https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=YrhQu285E20
also interesting
http://madmonarchist.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-teutonic-knights.html
Under the Grand Master Hermann von Salza the Teutonic Knights became more prominent as the Holy Roman Emperor (and sometime excommunicate) Frederick II, the “Wonder of the World” made the Grand Master a Prince of the Empire and when Emperor Frederick II came to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to be crowned King of Jerusalem it was the Teutonic Knights that served as his escort.
However, as the Middle East was completely conquered by Muslim forces the Teutonic Knights were forced to relocate, which they did to what might seem an unlikely place;
Transylvania.