Medieval 2 Total War Expansion: Teutonic Faction Intro

I love these guys... oh Germans, whats with you invading Poland...
The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem is a German medieval military order, turned into a modern purely Catholic religious order. It was formed to aid Christians on their pilgrimages to the Holy Land and to establish hospitals to care for the sick and injured. Its members have commonly been known as the Teutonic Knights, since they also served as a crusading military order during the Middle Ages. The membership was always small and whenever the need arose, volunteers or mercenaries augmented the military forces. After the reformation a branch of the order became Protestant and they named themselves the Bailiwick of Utrecht; this branch still exist of merely knights. The Roman Catholic order of today consists only of Catholic priests, nuns, and associates.
The Teutonic Knights began to direct their campaigns against pagan Lithuania (see Lithuanian mythology), especially after the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem at Acre in 1291. The knights moved their headquarters to Venice, from which they planned the recovery of Outremer.[20] Because "Lithuania Propria" remained non-Christian until the end of the 14th century, much later than the rest of eastern Europe, many knights from western European countries, such as England and France, journeyed to Prussia to participate in the seasonal campaigns (reyse) against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Some of them campaigned against pagans to obtain remission for their sins, while others fought to gain military experience.