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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Knights Hospitaller
		Knight Hospitaller A member of a military religious order, formally the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, so called after the dedication of their headquarters in Jerusalem to St John the Baptist.
		Knight Templar A member of a military religious order properly called the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, founded in 1118 by Hugh de Payens, a knight of Champagne in France.
		Malta's Masterpieces - Constructed by the knights who originally aided sick pilgrims to the holy land, the city of Valletta on the Mediterranean Island of Malta survives as a testament to its builders.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Knights+Hospitaller (1151 words)

	Knights Hospitaller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Knights Hospitaller (also known by such names as Knights of Rhodes, Knights of Malta, Cavaliers of Malta, and Order of St John of Jerusalem) is a tradition which began as a Benedictine hospitaller Order founded in Jerusalem, following the First Crusade, ca.
		After the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (Jerusalem itself fell in 1187), the Knights were confined to the County of Tripoli and when Acre was captured in 1291 the order sought refuge in the Kingdom of Cyprus.
		After seven years of moving from place to place in Europe, the Knights were re-established on Malta in 1530 by the order of Pope Clement VIII and King Charles V of Spain, with the consent of their feudal landlord the King of Sicily.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Knights_Hospitaller (3406 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Knights of Malta
		The history of the Hospitallers of Jerusalem is involved in that of the Latin Kingdom of the same name, with which the order was associated in prosperity and adversity.
		character was accentuated by the fusion of the Hospitallers with the remaining Knights Templar.
		The tombs of the knights in the convent
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07477a.htm (2970 words)

	Knights Hospitaller of St John of Jerusalem Official Site
		At first, the knights were called the Knights Hospitaller (or Hospitallers), which described their mission.
		But they were also called the Knights of St John of Jerusalem, because of their presence in the Holy Land.
		In 1530 Emperor Charles V ceded the island of Malta to the Knights.
	www.orderofmalta.org /nomiordine.asp?idlingua=5 (130 words)

	The Knights Hospitallers
		The Hospitallers were the most resilient of the military orders, although they had not started out as a fighting force at all.
		The three names by which the Hospitallers were known throughout their history reflects their forced retreat from the Holy Land, the failure of crusades in the later middle ages, and the corresponding advance of Islam.
		The Hospitallers prospered in the Holy Land as long as the kingdom of Jerusalem was strong, at one point holding seven strongholds, including Crac des Chevaliers, and 140 manors in the Latin states.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/9767/hospitallers.html (1113 words)

	Knights Hospitaller on Malta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Numerous knights had been killed or maimed during the siege, the number of new recruits had fallen dramatically while the Order was without a home and many members abjured their Catholic Faith to follow the doctrines of Martin Luther and others, causing the break up of the Order in northern Europe.
		The knights were faced with an impossible situation; they had bravely and successfully defended their islands and their religion against the forces of Islam in the past but now had the unpleasant duty of defending their temporal sovereignty by fighting their co-religionists and, in many cases, fellow Frenchmen.
		The French knights were guaranteed effective immunity from the laws on emigration by a declaration that they could either return to France or could remain in Malta, which was declared French territory, and were granted state pensions of seven hundred francs each for their lifetimes (one thousand for those over sixty).
	www.chivalricorders.org /orders/smom/maltaisl.htm (4151 words)

	The Knights of the Order of Saint John in Poland - A History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Following the example of the first Knights Hospitallers, the highest ranks of the Polish nobility demonstrated their religious fervour and commitment to the Order of Malta by donating in perpetuity hospitals and the means for their support.
		It was remarkable because it was able to maintain the Hospitaller tradition as well as uphold the virtues of the Knights of Saint John in a situation of geographical isolation from the Grand Magistry and the contemporary mainstream Langues.
		The Knights are also known as Hospitalers or Hospitallers and The Order has been referred to as the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem, Order of The Knights of Rhodes, Sovereign and Military Order of The Knights of Malta, Knights Hospitaller of Saint John of Jerusalem.
	www.chivalricorders.org /orders/smom/maltpold.htm (5851 words)

	ipedia.com: Knights Hospitaller Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Knights Hospitaller is a tradition which began as a Benedictine nursing Order founded in the 11th century based in the Holy Land, but soon became a militant Christian Chivalric Order under its own...
		The Emperor of Russia gave the largest number of Knights shelter in St Petersburg and this gave rise to the Russian tradition of the Knights Hospitaller.
		SMOM is considered to be the most direct successor to the medieval Knights Hospitaller, also known as the Knights of Malta, and today operates as a largely charitable and ceremonial organisation.
	www.ipedia.com /knights_hospitaller.html (2684 words)

	Knights
		This fourth collection of Dr. Lutrell's studies on the military order of the Hospital concerns its activities on the island of Rhodes, acquired between 1306 and 1310, where it struggled to contain the naval aggression of the Anatolian Turks and to settle the island and organize its society and economy.
		The military burden was shouldered by the foreign knights who fought for weeks or months and then returned home, and by the local families of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
		The author of Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry (1989)--which provocatively argued that the Freemasons are a descendant order of the medieval Knights Templar--now concentrates, in a highly detailed but far less captivating addendum, on the Knights' role in the Crusades.
	www.shop-smom.com /shop-common/amz_books_2.htm (1096 words)

	Russian tradition of the Knights Hospitaller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The special relationship between the Knights of Malta and the crown of Russia continued into the 18th century.
		In 1789, Bailiff Count Giulio Renato de Litta, while on an official visit from the Knights of Malta, assisted with the reorganization of Russia's Baltic Fleet, and later served as a commander with the Russian Imperial Navy in the war against Sweden.
		In 1797, Paul I, Emperor of Russia signed a Treaty with the Order of Malta, establishing a Roman Catholic Grand Priory of 10 Commanderies in Russia in compensation for the loss of income from the former Polish Grand Priory (of 6 Commanderies), which lay in the Polish territory annexed by Russia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russian_tradition_of_the_Knights_Hospitaller (1748 words)

	Houses of Knights Hospitaller - Preceptory of Poling \| British History Online
		Houses of Knights Hospitaller - Preceptory of Poling
		'Houses of Knights Hospitaller: Preceptory of Poling', A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 2 (1973), pp.
		The origin of the preceptory of Poling does not appear to be known, but in 1338 the lands of the Hospitallers in Sussex (fn.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=36602 (224 words)

	Church Knights Book Three
		The ceremonial uniform of the Hospitallers is a fl robe emblazoned with an eight-pointed cross of white (the Maltese Cross).
		In 1229 the Teutonic knights began a crusade to convert and pacify the pagan Slavs in Prussia.
		The militant arm was closely modelled on the knights Templar, and the hospital arm based on that of the knights of St John.
	home.earthlink.net /~captkras/dave_html/mage/ck.4.0/ck3.html (8707 words)

	The Sovereign Military Order of Saint-John (Malta)
		A papal bull of 1113 recognized the Hospitallers of Saint-John as a monastic order, and soon after, perhaps under the influence of the Templars (founded in Jerusalem in 1120) the Hospitallers turned into armed guards, and soon into fighting monks, participating alongside the Crusaders and holding fortresses as well as hospices across the Holy Land.
		The requirements to be a knight were initially to be of knightly family, but over time they became more stringent: in the 1350s nobility of both parents, in 1428 nobility of four generations on the father's side, in 1550 nobility of four quarters (all grandparents).
		In the category of knights of honor and devotion, a rank of honorary bailli-grand-cross was created, as well as a rank of grand-cross among the knights of magistral grace.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/orders/ordmalta.htm (3083 words)

	Chapter 10: The Crusader Kingdom of Valencia
		The contribution of the Knights of St. George to the spiritual fabric of the new kingdom was modest, but they did stand as a living tribute to the national patron, a symbol of the chivalrous and warlike spirit of his people.
		As time went on the knights were to keep a sure hold upon the affections of the Valencians, and it was to their church that the medieval processions would first come on the yearly anniversary day of the fall of Valencia.
		The knights were to build an altar to the Blessed Virgin and support a priest to chant daily Mass and the office for the souls of his family and himself.
	libro.uca.edu /ck/ck10.htm (15782 words)

	Sovereign Military Order of Malta in the United Kingdom - British Association - Grand Priory of England - Knights of ...
		Founded as the Order of the Hospital in 11th century Palestine, the knights (and dames) of Malta are part of a millennial Christian tradition of service to humanity, first in the Middle East, then in Europe and around the world.
		In armour, the knights hospitaller defended and cared for pilgrims, travellers and the sick, founding the world's first hospital.
		Dedicated to lives of religious devotion, the knights of the Order in England, Scotland and Wales who take religious vows are part of the Grand Priory of England, a religious community.
	www.orderofmalta.org.uk (465 words)

	Knights Templar - Crystalinks
		The Templar Knights or 'Poor Knights of Christ' were a monastic order of knights founded in 1112 A.D. to protect the pilgrims along the path from Europe to the Holy Lands (Jerusalem).
		In 1118, during the reign of Baldwin II, Hugues de Payens, a knight of Champagne, and eight companions bound themselves by a perpetual vow, taken in the presence of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, to defend the Christian kingdom.
		Many kings and nobles supported the Knights at that time, and only dissolved the order in their fiefs when so commanded by Pope Clement V. Robert the Bruce, the King of Scots, had already been excommunicated for other reasons, and was therefore not disposed to pay heed to Papal commands.
	www.crystalinks.com /templars1.html (4604 words)

	hospitaller knights
		The Knights Templar were dissolved in 1312 and much of their property was given to the Hospitallers.
		The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, better known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta or SMOM, is a Catholic lay order and claims to be a sovereign entity and which has permanent observer status at the United Nations.
		SMOM is considered to be the most direct successor to the medieval Knights Hospitaller, also known as the Knights of Malta, and today operates as a largely charitable and ceremonial organization.
	www.crusades-history.com /Hospitaller-Knights.aspx (2841 words)

	HISTORY/KNIGHTS [aboutmalta.com]
		Knights of Malta Toy Soldiers - Pewter figurines of the Knights of Malta and Maltese Regiments.
		The Knights Hospitaller - An unofficial guide to the chivalric Hospitaller Orders, especially the Order of St. John, from the First Crusade to the present era.
		The Knights of St. John - A brief history from their foundation to the present day by the Catholic Enclopaedia.
	www.aboutmalta.com /HISTORY/KNIGHTS (412 words)

	House of Knights Hospitaller - Preceptory of Ansty \| British History Online
		'House of Knights Hospitaller: Preceptory of Ansty', A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (1956), pp.
		The manor of Ansty was granted to the order of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem by Walter de Turberville in 1210-11.
		The pension was payable by the Knights as early as 1245, and continued to be paid in the 17th century, long after they had departed.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=36548 (778 words)

	WHKMLA : Ottoman Siege of Malta, 1565
		The Order of the Knights Hospitaller (or of St. John) in 1522 were expelled from Rhodes and in 1530 were given, by Emperor Charles V., the island of Malta, from where they could continue to harass the Muslim world.
		The Ottomans quickly defeated the Maltese militia, became master of the countryside and laid siege to the fortress, which was stubbornly defended by the Knights Hospitaller.
		Malta was to remain under the rule of the Knights Hospitaller until 1798.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/military/16cen/malta1565.html (520 words)

	Knights Hospitaller of St. John - Order of St John of Jerusalem
		Inevitably, as the Crusader States found themselves in a condition of perpetual war, the brethren of the Order were soon found serving as medics and then as combatants, becoming (with their rivals the Knights Templar) the most discilplined Christian military force in Outremer and the mediæval equivalent of a multinational corporation.
		On this page may be found general historical links about the Order; for information on specific eras please consult the pages devoted specifically to the Crusader era, the stay in the Greek isles, the Maltese period, the Napoleonic interlude, or the modern era.
		Bibliography of the Knights of St. John of the Hospital, by Lynn Nelson
	mahan.wonkwang.ac.kr /link/med/war/crusade/knhos/histksj.html (694 words)

	The Knights Templar and Hospitaller: Mostly Medieval Exploring the Middle Ages
		Early in the twelfth century, two orders of knights were founded, the Hospitallers and the Templars.
		The Hospitallers were not originally knights, but civilians managing the pilgrims' hospital of St. John at Jerusalem.
		The Templars began as a small group of knights who undertook the protection of pilgrims on the way to Jerusalem.
	www.skell.org /explore/text/knightsintroT.html (345 words)

	The Knights Hospitaller
		Her books are well known for providing new theories and insight into the history of the military orders, and The Knights Hospitaller is no exception.
		The Knights Hospitaller covers the history of the Order from its inception to the loss of Malta in 1798 and beyond to the standing of the Order in the present day.
		Despite a few missing answers, which may have been beyond the scope of the work, The Knights Hospitaller is an excellent introduction for anyone curious in learning more about medieval military orders.
	www.8notes.com /books/detpage.asp?asin=1843830388&field-keywords=Couperin&schMod=music&type=&sb=s (362 words)

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