A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . d landfilled up with hundreds of flourishing vil-lages, whose peasants reaped rich superfluous grain became an importantarticle of export, most of it being sent toEngland. But the cities also grew, underthe careful administration of the Order. Besides the oldest and Kulm, many others sprang iip in the thirteenth century,and were filled with German craftsmen and merchants, who re-ceived quite extensive privileges on the basis of the code of the Teutonic Order had become th
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . d landfilled up with hundreds of flourishing vil-lages, whose peasants reaped rich superfluous grain became an importantarticle of export, most of it being sent toEngland. But the cities also grew, underthe careful administration of the Order. Besides the oldest and Kulm, many others sprang iip in the thirteenth century,and were filled with German craftsmen and merchants, who re-ceived quite extensive privileges on the basis of the code of the Teutonic Order had become the lord of the land, and assuch had its rights and duties. But it still preserved its old half-military, half-monastic form, only that it naturally changed some-what. This made necessary a modification of its rule, which wasoriginally the same as that of the Templars, and, though re^dsedabout the middle of the tliirteentli century, had become unsuited tothe conditions under which the Order lived. It is the more wonder-ful, therefore, how, out of the simple organization of the Teutonic. Fig. 162.—Seal of tlie landmarshal of Livonia. Ori-ginal size. Obverse:S[igillnml JIARSCALCIDE LIV()XIA t. At-tached to a charter, datedOctober S, 1348. (Ar-chives of the Council ofReval.) 382 yOllTUEEX EUliOPE TO THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. Order, a system of government was evolved which satisfied theseverest demands. The whole body of the knights henceforth werethe officials who ruled the new colony. The Land ]\Iaster, the Com-mander-in-chief, the Warden of the Hospital, the ^Marshal, and theTreasurer hecame the heads of the most important branches of theadministration. The whole district was divided into about twentycommanderships. The commander of the respective rehgious house of the Order was the gov-ernor of liis district, and theknights who belonged to theconvent were his a bureaucracy sprangup bejOnd the Vistulawhich was unique in thatevery ruler was a servant attlie same time
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