Konrad von Jungingen (ca. 1355 – 30 March 1407) was the 25th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights

Teutonic Knights

The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem , commonly the Teutonic Order , is a German medieval military order, in modern times a purely religious Catholic order...

, serving from 1393 to 1407. Born in Jungingen

Jungingen

Jungingen is a village in the Zollernalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located nearby the castle Burg Hohenzollern, about 5 km east of Hechingen....

 in southwestern Germany

Germany

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, Konrad was the elder brother of Ulrich von Jungingen

Ulrich von Jungingen

Ulrich von Jungingen was the 26th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from 1407 to 1410. His policy of confrontation with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland sparked the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War and led to disaster for the Order in the Battle of Grunwald.- Life...

, who was his successor as Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.

An invasion army under Konrad conquered the island of Gotland

Gotland

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 in 1398, destroyed parts of Visby

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, and drove the Victual Brothers

Victual Brothers

The Victual Brothers were a companionship of privateers who later turned to piracy. They were hired in 1392 by the Dukes of Mecklenburg to fight against Denmark, because the Danish Queen Margaret I had imprisoned Albrecht of Mecklenburg and his son in order to subdue the kingdom of Sweden...

 out of Gotland and the Baltic Sea

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. The Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights

Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights

The State of the Teutonic Order, , also Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights or Ordensstaat , was formed in 1224 during the Northern Crusades, the Teutonic Knights' conquest of the pagan West-Baltic Old Prussians in the 13th century....

 in Prussia

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 was at the peak of its power during Konrad's leadership.

Konrad died in 1407 at Marienburg Castle

Malbork Castle

The Marienburg Castle in Malbork is by area the largest castle in the world. It was built in Prussia by the Teutonic Knights, a German Roman Catholic religious order of crusaders, in a form of an Ordensburg fortress. The Order named it Marienburg...

 and was buried there. He died a most unusual martyr's death. His doctor prescribed Sexual Intercourse

Sexual intercourse

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 as a cure for his Gallstones, from which von Jungingen was suffering at the time. The chaste knight refused to comply, and suffered the consequences.