The Teutonic Order had a long tradition of historical writing. From the thirteenth century onwards, an extensive list of historiographical works was produced, describing the order’s affairs in the Holy Land and particularly the Baltic region. Apart from a few exceptions, such texts were written in Prussia or Livonia, where the order had become engaged in a crusade against pagan powers in the area, and often in the vicinity of the grand master of the Teutonic Order. The number of historiographical texts linked to the military orders was by far the largest in the Teutonic Order. The production of narrative sources within the Teutonic Order commenced in the mid-thirteenth century. The historiographical tradition of the Teutonic Order has been attracting academic study for over 150 years. In the second half of the nineteenth century, many of the chronicles were edited in the impressive Scriptores Rerum Prussicarum.