1 Ferding - Wolter von Plettenberg Reval, flat top, straight shield

Wolter von Plettenberg is the dominant figure of late Livonian Order history — his victory over Ivan III's forces at the Battle of Smolina in 1502 halted Muscovite expansion into the Baltic for a generation. These ferdings were struck during the years when Plettenberg was navigating the early Reformation's spread through Livonia while simultaneously holding the Order together as its secular neighbors converted and restructured. He would eventually accept the title of Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1530, just after this issue, making him the last genuinely powerful Master the Order would have.