Brewer's: Teutonic Knights

An order which the Crusades gave birth to. Originally only Germans of noble birth were admissible to the order. (Abolished by Napoleon in 1800.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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