Incorporation into the Teutonic Knights The Order was decimated in the Battle of Schaulen (Saule) in 1236 against Lithuanians and Semigallians.Andrejs Plakans, A Concise History of the Baltic States, (Cambridge University Press, 2011), 44. This disaster led the surviving Brothers to become incorporated into the Order of Teutonic Knights in the following year, and from that point on they became known as the Livonian Order. They continued to function in all respects (rule, clothing and policy) as an autonomous branch of the Teutonic Order, headed by their own Master (himself de jure subject to the Teutonic Order's Grand Master).
Incorporation into the Teutonic Knights The Order was decimated in the Battle of Schaulen (Saule) in 1236 against Lithuanians and SemigalliansAndrejs Plakans A Concise History of the Baltic States (Cambridge University Press 2011) 44 This disaster led the surviving Brothers to become incorporated into the Order of Teutonic Knights in the following year and from that point on they became known as the Livonian Order They continued to function in all respects (rule clothing and policy) as an autonomous branch of the Teutonic Order headed by their own Master (himself de jure subject to the Teutonic Order's Grand Master)