How did the Teutonic Knights go from an aid-providing military religious order during the Crusades to a land-owning political state in the Baltics in the 13th century?

by dave_g17
TacticusPrime

Follow up: Is there a good English, or English translation, book on this process? The most I've read on it has been from Wikipedia.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_I,_Duke_of_Prussia