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| 1070 CE | Possible founding date of the Hospital of St. John in Jerusalem by Amalfi merchants. | |
| 13 Nov 1093 CE | Battle of Alnwick | |
| Nov 1093 CE | Donald Bane becomes King of Scotland | |
| 1095 CE | The First Crusade (1095-1099) is initiated when Byzantine Emperor Alexius Comnenus requests help in reconquering the lost territory of Asia Minor. Western Europe sends enormous support to take Jerusalem from the control of Islam. | |
| 1095 CE | Pope Urban II preaches the first Crusade. | |
| 1098 CE | The crusaders of the First Crusade defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo capturing Antioch and most of Syria, killing the Turkish inhabitants. | |
| 15 Jul 1099 CE | Jerusalem fell to the crusaders of the First Crusade who slaughtered the Jewish and Muslim inhabitants. | |
| 1099 CE | Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon | |
| 1099 CE | Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria | |
| 1099 CE | The first Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria. | |
| 1099 CE | After the Crusaders take Jerusalem, they divide their new territories into four principalities. | |
| 1110 CE | Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath. | |
| 1113 CE | Hospital of St. John recognized by papal bull as separate order. | |
| 1118 CE | Hugh of Payens of Burgundy and Godfrey of Saint Adhemar, a Fleming, with seven other knights were credited with founding the Templars whose headquarters was on or near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. | |
| 1126 CE | Hospital of St. John displayed possible military attributes, its 'constable' was cited in sources. | |
| 1127 CE | Possible date of the founding of the German Hospital of St. Mary in Jerusalem. | |
| 1128 CE | Probable circulation of St. Bernard of Clairvaux's 'Liber ad milites templi de laude novae militiae'. | |
| Jan 1129 CE | Council of Troyes recognized the Temple as an order. | |
| 1131 CE | King Alfonso I of Aragon and Navarre attempted to turn over the kingdom to the Templars, Hospitallers, and Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in his will. | |
| 1143 CE | Two sources of Pope Celestine II mention a German hospital in Jerusalem in some kind of dispute with the Hospital of St. John and the German hospital was put under the supervision of the Hospital of St. John. | |
| 1147 CE | According to a legend - a Crusader taken prisoner returns with papermaking skills. | |
| 1147 CE | The beginning of the Second Crusade (1147-1149). | |
| 24 Jun 1148 CE | Damascus: Attack | |
| 1160 CE | (1160-1170) John of Würzburg mentioned the German hospital in Jerusalem in his Description of the Holy Land. | |
| 1164 CE | Templars attempt a reconciliation. | |
| 1165 CE | Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine. | |
| 1172 CE | German monk Theodorich wrote 'Guide to the Holy Land'. | |
| 1176 CE | Sophia, Countess of Holland, was buried in the German hospital in Jerusalem. | |
| 1 May 1187 CE | Hospitallers and Templars defeated by the Muslims at Nazareth. | |
| 4 Jul 1187 CE | Battle of Hattin lost by crusaders when Hospitallers, Templars, and the 'flower of the nobility' are devastated. | |
| Nov 1187 CE | The Third Crusade is ordered (1187-1192) after the Muslim capture of Jerusalem. Richard I, future King of England, takes the Cross. Richard I, German Emperor Frederick I and French King Philip Augustus lead the cursade. | |
| 1189 CE | Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa and 100,000 crusaders depart Regensburg. | |
| 16 Mar 1190 CE | The Crusades began the massacre of Jews in York, England. The Jewish population of York fled to Clifford's Tower overlooking the rivers Ouse and Foss during an anti-Jewish riot. A crazed friar set fire to the tower and rather than be captured, the inhabitants committed mass suicide. | |
| Sep 1190 CE | King Guy of Jerusalem awarded Teutonic Order or 'Teutonic Knights' a portion of a tower in Acre. The order perhaps shared the tower with the English Order of the Hospital of St. Thomas. | |
| 1190 CE | The crusaders lay siege to Acre. | |
| 1190 CE | Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds England. | |
| 6 Feb 1191 CE | Questionable bull of Pope Clement III approving the German hospitaller order at Acre. | |
| 10 Apr 1191 CE | Richard's fleet leave Sicily | |
| 20 Apr 1191 CE | Philip V arrives in Acre. | |
| 6 May 1191 CE | Richard sails to Cyprus. | |
| 11 May 1191 CE | Meeting in Limassol | |
| 12 May 1191 CE | Richard the Lionheart married Bernegaria of Navarre, daughter of Sancho VI, King of Navarre, in Limassol, Cyprus. | |
| 1 Jun 1191 CE | Richard controls Cyprus. | |
| 6 Jun 1191 CE | Richard arrives at Tyre and attacks Acre. | |
| 12 Jul 1191 CE | Siege of Acre ended in crusader victory. | |
| 1192 CE | The third crusade ends. | |
| Apr 1195 CE | Count Palatinate Henry of Champagne provided Teutonic Knights the house of Theodore of Sarepta in Tyre. | |
| Mar 1196 CE | Count Palatinate Henry conferred possessions in Jaffa (Joppa) on Teutonic Knights. | |
| 21 Dec 1196 CE | Pope Celestine III took the 'Hospital of St. Mary of the Germans in Jerusalem' under his protection. | |
| 1196 CE | Hermann von Salza may have accompanied Landgraf Hermann von Thüringen to the Holy Land. | |
| 20 May 1197 CE | German emperor Henry VI gave the Teutonic Knights a hospital in Barletta, Italy. | |
| 18 Jul 1197 CE | Henry VI gave Teutonic Knights a church and cloister (of the Holy Trinity) in Palermo, Sicily | |
| 5 Mar 1198 CE | Teutonic Knights established as a military order in a ceremony in Acre's Temple which was attended by the secular and clerical leaders of the Latin Kingdom. | |
| Aug 1198 CE | Pope Innocent III proclaimes the the fourth crusade (1198-1205). | |
| 1198 CE | First military action of the Teutonic Knights with King Amalric II of Jerusalem. Amalric gave them (in August) a tower in Acre, formerly belonging to the Order of St. Nicholas. | |
| 1198 CE | The Fourth Crusade was funded by Enrico Dandolo, doge of Venice. | |
| 19 Feb 1199 CE | Bull of Pope Innocent III confirmed the Teutonic Knights' wearing of the Templars' white mantle and following of the Hospitallers' rule. | |
| Aug 1200 CE | Teutonic Knights paid the sons of Theodore of Sarepta 200 besants for the house in Tyre to complete the 1195 deal. | |
| 1202 CE | (1202-1204) The Crusading effort led by Boniface of Montferrat was diverted from Palestine or Egypt to Constantinople with influence of Venetians and pretender to the Byzantine throne. | |
| 1202 CE | Gerold of Bozen gave the Teutonic Knights a hospital in Bozen. | |
| Apr 1204 CE | The crusaders of the Fourth Crusade capture Constantinople. The sack of Constantinople causes a firm Byzantine hatred of the West. | |
| 1205 CE | The end of the fourth crusade. | |
| 1205 CE | William of Champlitte and Geoffrey of Villehardouin conquered Patras, Andravida, Pundico Castro, Modon, and Coron in the Morea; Battle of Koundoura won by William of Champlitte and Geoffrey of Villehardouin with about 600 men over 5,000 Byzantine Greeks | |
| 1206 CE | Statutes of Margat adopted by the Hospitallers in annual chapter meeting. | |
| 1208 CE | Innocent III calls for the Albigensian Crusade (1208-1229) in order to destroy the heretical threat of the Albigensians. | |
| 1208 CE | Teutonic Knights 'marshal' appears in the sources which indicates the military nature of the order. | |
| 1209 CE | (early 1209) Geoffrey Villehardouin, Prince of Achaia, in dividing up the Peloponnesus in his capital of Andravida, gave the Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights four knightly fees; the Teutonic Knights' fee is near Kalamata. | |
| 1209 CE | Teutonic Knights side with Hospitallers and barons in Acre against the Templars and prelates; origin of long-standing opposition between the Templars and Teutonic Knights. | |
| 3 Oct 1210 CE | Probable date of election of Hermann von Salza as grand master of the Teutonic Knights; the date coincided with the date of the marriage in Tyre of John of Brienne to Mary; it was also the date of John's coronation as King of Jerusalem. | |
| 1211 CE | Burzenland settled by the Teutonic Knights with the authority of Hungary's King Andrew II. | |
| Jul 1212 CE | Spain reconquers the Iberian peninsula from the Muslims in the name of Christianity. | |
| Jul 1212 CE | Peter II of Aragon defeats the Moors at Las Navas de Tolosa. | |
| 1212 CE | Adomadana given to the Teutonic Knights by King Leo of Armenia. | |
| 1212 CE | The Children's Crusade, in spring th German phase and in June the French phase. | |
| 12 Sep 1213 CE | Simon de Montfort defeated Raymond of Toulouse and Peter II of Aragon at Muret, France. Peter II is killed. | |
| 12 Feb 1214 CE | King Leo of Armenia granted Teutonic Knights Amudain, the castle of Sespin, and more. | |
| Nov 1215 CE | Pope Innocent III called the fifth crusade (1215-1229) at the Fourth Lateran Council (12th ecumenical council) in Rome. Hermann von Salza was probably present representing the order of the Teutonic Knights. | |
| 18 Feb 1216 CE | Innocent III issued a bull of protection for the Teutonic Knights. | |
| Dec 1216 CE | Hermann von Salza attended Frederick II's court in Nurembergw which was the first meeting between the Teutonic Knights' grand master and the emperor. | |
| 1216 CE | The Dominican order is founded by St. Dominic of Spain and was authorized by Innocent III. Its purpose is to convert Muslims and Jews and to put an end to heresy. The Dominicans eventually become the main administrators of inquisitorial trials. | |
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