| “ | The pagan king has decided to face us at last. I was starting to think that you had fled back to Poland! | ” |
| —Dialogue in The Fruits of Her Labor | ||
Ulrich von Jungingen (8 January 1360 – 15 July 1410) is a cavalry hero unit in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Dawn of the Dukes. He 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 would spark the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War and lead to disaster for his Order, and his own death, at the Battle of Grunwald.
Von Jungingen's in-game attributes and appearance are largely similar to a Crusader Knight, but with better armor, 250 more hit points, and differs in that the crosses on his tabard and horse's caparison are gold and black instead of all black, and he wears a horned helmet inspired by the Pranckh great helm, medieval German heraldry, and artwork of the Knights, as well as other popular media. As a hero, he cannot be converted and can regenerate health.
Campaign appearances[]
Jadwiga[]
- The Fruits of Her Labor: Ulrich leads the Teutonic army at the Battle of Grunwald. Killing him will greatly weaken the Teutonic morale.
Jan Zizka[]
- Courage and Coin: Ulrich leads the Teutonic forces at the Battle of Grunwald. He is stationed at the central Teuton Castle. Killing him and other Teutonic leaders will break Teutonic morale.
Victors and Vanquished[]
- Mstislav: The Teutonic Grand Master Hermann von Salza, a renamed Ulrich von Jungingen, offers to join Mstislav if he destroys the Lithuanian Pagan Shrines in the west.
- Otto: Otto is a renamed Ulrich. He is set on uniting the lands of Germany, Lotharingia and Italy into a unified Holy Roman Empire.
A Grand Master using his portrait also appears in dialogues in several other scenarios of the Polish and the Lithuanian campaigns, but this is not Ulrich, as he wasn't the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order in the time period.
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