Jüngere Hochmeisterchronik

[3] The anonymous chronicle was likely authored by the land commander of the Utrecht bailiwick of the Teutonic Order, Johan van Drongelen, in cooperation with his personal secretary Hendrik Gerardsz.

[5][6] Recent scholarship has also suggested that the text may have been written in response to the Hospitallers aggressive propaganda campagne after the successfully repelled siege of Rhodes in 1480.

The text opens with a lengthy prologue, which places the origins of the Teutonic Order in a biblical past, starting with Noah and Melchizedek.

Various Old Testament figures, such as Moses, David, and Judas Maccabeus, are linked to Mount Zion and presented as prefigurations of the Teutonic Knights.

The sources include a wide range of biblical literature, crusade narratives (William of Tyre, Jacques de Vitry, Oliver of Paderborn, Vincent of Beauvais, Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Richard of San Germano, Johannes de Beke, Ludolf of Sudheim), Teutonic Order chronicles (amongst others Peter of Dusburg, Nikolaus of Jeroschin, the Ältere Hochmeisterchronik, Livonian Rhymed Chronicle), as well as several archival documents.

[10] The main body of the text ends with the death of Grand Master Ludwig of Ellrichshausen in 1467, followed by a list of commanderies in Prussia and Livonia.