Dobrin Order

The Order of the Knights of Dobrin was founded in 1222 by the Archbishop of Prussia and Duke Conrad I of Mazovia, receiving its name from the castle that welcomed its first members.

History

Very supported by the Cistercian Order, from which it took its rule and on which it was based to provide itself with a hierarchical structure, it never went beyond having a modest military potential (in its moment of greatest splendor, no more than about 35 crossed). Its first knights were trained by warrior-monks of the Order of Calatrava, who marched from distant Castile to the remote lands of the Polish Marches, but its small size made it very vulnerable, as it could barely replace the losses suffered in its fights with the Baltic pagans and, as happened with the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, it was finally absorbed, in 1240, by the Teutonic Order.