Teutonic faction early campaign?

[mattycraig1]

Just curious, Do the teutons acctually emerge as a faction in the early campaign, I'v played up to the teutonic event, but saw no faction emerge?

[PerXX]

They do.
You've got to wait a bit from the event, to them actually showing up though.
Considering they started out as a minor hospital faction, and settled in Hungary and Venice, before they actually showed up in the Baltic area.
I believe it's about 20 years from the first event, to their armies showing up near Lithuania.