A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath ...

In 1190, during the Third Crusade, the Domus Hospitalis Sanctæ Mariæ Teutonicorum Hierosolymitanorum (Order of the Teutonic Knights of the Hospital of Saint Mary of Jerusalem) was founded in Jerusalem ...