ABSTRACT
There were no Teutonic possessions in twelfth-century Jerusalem, which fell to Saladin in 1187, before the Order was established in Acre after the Third Crusade. However, in the thirteenth century, following the reoccupation of Jerusalem in 1229, Frederick II granted the Teutonic Order the former German pilgrims’ hospice and church (St Maria Alemannorum) in the south-east of the city, as well as a house in the Armenian Street, near the Church of St Thomas, and a garden and six acres of land.1
