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FLO4705008: Armed man of Lithuania, with mace, sword and shield. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's “” Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Peoples of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the New Era,”” written by Leopold Ziegelhauser, Vienna, 1837. Illustration from Cesare Vecellio's Habiti antichi e moderni, Venice, 1590. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4708627: Great master of the Teutonic order. The Teutonic knights were a medieval military order copy on the hospitals of Saint John. Their history is nomadic: their cradle was Acre in Palestine (1190-1309, then Marienburg in Prussia (1309-1525), where he developed his temporal supremacy and military domination, then their settlement in Mergentheim in Franconia, marked a period of declin, finally the order settled in Vienna (Austria) (1524-1805) or survived as a purely hospital. Hand-coloured copper engraving, in “Images historiques des costumes des principaux peuples de l'Antiquite et du Middle Ages” by Robert Von Spalart, published in 1800. / Bridgeman Images