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HERMANN VON SALZA (c. 1170-1239)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 104 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERMANN VON See also:SALZA (c. 1170-1239)  , See also:Master of the See also:Teutonic See also:Order, and councillor of the See also:emperor See also:Frederick II., was a See also:scion of the See also:family of See also:Langensalza in Thuringia . He entered the Teutonic Order in See also:early See also:life, became very intimate with Frederick II., took See also:part in the expedition to See also:Damietta in 1221, and accompanied the emperor on the crusade of 1228, which was joined by many princes owing to his See also:influence . About 1210 he was appointed master of the Teutonic Order, and was offered, in 1226, the See also:province of See also:Kulm by See also:Conrad I., See also:duke of Masovia, in return for help against the Prussians; this he accepted and obtained the See also:investiture from Frederick . In 1230 the See also:conquest of See also:Prussia was begun by the Order, although not under his immediate leadership . In 1225 he reconciled Valdemar II., See also:king of See also:Denmark, with See also:Henry I., See also:count of See also:Schwerin, and thus won again the See also:land on the right See also:bank of the See also:Elbe for the See also:Empire, and the recognition of imperial superiority over Denmark . Trusted by See also:Pope See also:Gregory IX. and the emperor alike, he brought about the treaty of See also:San Germano between them in 1230, was the only See also:witness when they met in See also:conference at Anagni in the same See also:year, and it was he who, in 1235, induced Frederick's son, Henry, to submit to his See also:father . He died on the 19th of See also:March 1239 at See also:Barletta in See also:Apulia, and was buried there in the See also:chapel of his Order . Vide: A . See also:Koch, See also:Hermann von See also:Salza, Meister See also:des deutschen Ordens (See also:Leipzig, 1885) .

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He was born from a german father(a nobile from the Salza family)and a spanish mother. Thus he had black hair and black eyes; he was an impulsive person and would escape very easy from a woman whom he got bored of. Was educated and teached how to fight by his uncle. Having enough of his uncle's orders and his cousin's insults, he left and became a pirate.After couple of years of piratery, he was called back and offered "a job" by the pope: to be the master of the new born religious order, the teutonic knights.
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