Vladislaus iwas born in November or December 1431 in the Transylvanian city of Sighisoara.

At this time his father Vlad II was in exile in Transylvania, the birthplace still stands and is in a prosperous neighborhood surrounded by houses Saxons Magyar traders, as well as other houses of the nobility.

The 30 years war.

An essay on Charlemagne’s lasting impact on how Europe worked throughout the middle ages.

The Crusades into the Holy Land instigated monastic orders armed with swords instead of words. One of these orders of knights came to be known as the Teutonic Knights. Their members were mainly recruited from German lands, but also from other parts of the Holy Roman Empire. A late comer, it soon got into trouble with the established Knights Templar.

The Crusades into the Holy Land instigated monastic orders armed with swords instead of words. One of these orders of knights came to be known as the Teutonic Knights. Their members were mainly recruited from German lands, but also from other parts of the Holy Roman Empire. A late comer, it soon got into trouble with the established Knights Templar.

The Teutonic Knights were founded during the Third Crusade in 1190. They first ran hospitals before acquiring a fighting arm of knights. The hospitals would remain their main business, while the fighting units wrote the history. To accommodate their many needs, the Teutonic Knights had a quite complicated membership structure.

In 1938, Germany’s Nazi regime outlawed the German Order and requisitioned all its possessions. Austria followed suit the same year. But this requisitioning of goods was only the last act in a long story of misappropriation of the order’s history to suit Nazi ideals.

Otto the Great effectively ruled over a portion of Charlemagne’s empire during the tenth century.

Temporal power in the country had the emperor and ecclesiastical power was Pope.

Karlstejn Castle – a symbol of golden ages.