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Knights Hospitalers
Knights Hospitalers members of the military and religious Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, sometimes called the Knights of St. John and the Knights of Jerusalem. The symbol of the Order of St. John came to be a white cross worn on a black robe; thus the Hospitalers were the Knights o... Read more
knight
knight in ancient and medieval history, a noble who did military service as a mounted warrior. The Knight in Ancient History In ancient history, as in Athens and Rome, the knight was a noble of the second class who in military service had to furnish his own mount and equipment. In Roman s... Read more
Knights Templars
Knights Templars , in medieval history, members of the military and religious order of the Poor Knights of Christ, called the Knights of the Temple of Solomon from their house in Jerusalem. Origins Like the Knights Hospitalers and the Teutonic Knights , the Templars were formed during t... Read more
Clontarf
Clontarf , suburb of Dublin, Co. Dublin, E Republic of Ireland. It was the scene of a decisive defeat (1014) of the Danes by the Irish under Brian Boru , who himself was killed in the fighting. Clontarf Castle was built (1835) on the site of an ancient castle that belonged successively to the Knigh... Read more
Valletta
Valletta , city (1994 est. pop. 9,129), capital of Malta, NE Malta. It is strategically located on a rocky promontory between two deep harbors. Dockyards line the harbors and employ more workers than any other industry. Tourism is also an important industry. A 16th-century town, with many relics of ... Read more
Treaty of Amiens
Treaty of Amiens 1802, peace treaty signed by France, Spain, and the Batavian Republic on the one hand and Great Britain on the other. It is generally regarded as marking the end of the French Revolutionary Wars and setting the stage for the Napoleonic Wars (see Napoleon I ). By its terms Engl... Read more
Rhodes
Rhodes or Ródhos , island (1990 est. pop. 90,000), c.540 sq mi (1,400 sq km), SE Greece, in the Aegean Sea; largest of the Dodecanese , near Turkey. Land and Economy The island has fertile coastal strips where wheat, tobacco, cotton, olives, wine grapes, oranges, and vegetables... Read more
Akko
Akko or Acre , Fr. Saint-Jean d'Acre, Arab. Acca, city (1994 pop. 45,300), NW Israel, a port on the Bay of Haifa (an arm of the Mediterranean Sea). Its manufactures include iron and steel, chemicals, and textiles. The city was captured (AD 638) by the Arabs, who developed its natural harbor.... Read more
Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem feudal state created by leaders of the First Crusade (see Crusades ) in the areas they had wrested from the Muslims in Syria and Palestine. In 1099, after their capture of Jerusalem, the Crusaders chose Godfrey of Bouillon king; he declined the title, preferring that o... Read more
Banat
Banat , region extending across W Romania, NE Serbia, and S Hungary. The term banat originally referred to any of several frontier provinces of Hungary and Croatia that were ruled by bans (governors). The Banat region is bordered on the E by Transylvania and Walachia, on the W by the Tisza River, ... Read more

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St John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitallers of
Book article from: World Encyclopedia St John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitallers of See Knights Hospitallers
Knights Hospitallers
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Knights Hospitallers (Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem) Military Christian order recognized in 1113 by Pope Paschal II. In the early...
Hospitallers
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History Hospitallers. Originally established...of the First Crusade the Hospitallers' role expanded, with papal...into three groups, the knights, the infirmarians, and...s estates, training its knights, and dispensing hospitality...
Hospitaller
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Hospitaller See Knights Hospitallers
The Knights Templar
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained ...John of Jerusalem, also known as the Knights Hospitallers and subsequently as the Knights of Malta and the Knights of Rhodes...who journeyed there. At first the Knights of Saint John, the Hospitallers, lent aid and encouragement to the...
Knights Templars
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History Knights Templars, created to protect pilgrims to Palestine and combining a...the decisions of Clement V and the Council of Vienne, passed to the Knights Hospitallers after 1312. Colmán N. Ó Clabaigh
Knights Templar
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Knights Templar Military religious order established in 1118, with headquarters in the supposed Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. With the Knights Hospitallers , the Templars protected routes to Jerusalem for Christians during...
Templars
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...Jerusalem in 1118 as a small group of knights pledged to protect pilgrims journeying...uncontroversial, role (with their rivals, the Hospitallers ) in the defence of the crusading states...elsewhere, their property was ceded to the Hospitallers: many Templars were executed or imprisoned...
chivalry
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...honour, valour, chastity, and loyalty. A knight swore loyalty to God, king and his love. Love...emergence of monastic knighthoods, such as the Knights Hospitallers and Knights Templar . Chivalry was always prone to corruption...
Malta
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...lords ruled Malta until the early 16th century. In 1530, the Holy Roman Emperor gave Malta to the Knights Hospitallers . In 1565, the Knights, who had fought in the Crusades , held Malta against a Turkish siege. In 1798, the French captured...

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Knights Hospitaller
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Knights Hospitaller; Knights of Malta ; and Knights of Rhodes . See HOSPITALLERS .
Knight Hospitaller
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Knight Hospitaller A member of a military religious order, formally the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, so called...From 1310 they were known as the Knights of Rhodes, from 1530 the Knights of Malta. They began in c. 1070...
Hospitallers
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Hospitallers, also Knights Hospitaller . Their full title, ‘Knights of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem...11th cent. After 1310 they were also known as the Knights of Rhodes and from 1530 as the Knights of Malta...
hospitaller
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable hospitaller a member of a charitable order, originally the Knights Hospitallers.
Hospitaller
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Hospitaller see KNIGHT HOSPITALLER .
knights
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable knights Knights Hospitallers a military and religious order founded as the Knights of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in the 11th century. Originally protectors of pilgrims, they also undertook the care of the sick. During the...
Knight Templar
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Knight Templar A member of a military...properly called the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple...1118 by Hugh de Payens, a knight of Champagne in France...to Acre together with the KNIGHTS HOSPITALLERS and great rivalry and hatred...
Jerusalem, Knights of St John in
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Jerusalem, Knights of St John in. See HOSPITALLERS .
Rhodes, Knights of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Rhodes, Knights of. See HOSPITALLERS .
Malta, Knights of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Malta, Knights of. See HOSPITALLERS .

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The Knights Hospitaller of the English Langue 1460-1565.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Gregory O'Malley. The Knights Hospitaller of the English Langue 1460...efforts to the Baltic, the Hospitallers remained the main defense...spoken, but by where each knight had been born. The English langue was composed of knights born in Britain and Ireland...typically much longer, was the ...
Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights: Images of the Military Orders, 1128-1291
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights: Images of the Military Orders, 1128-1291. By...concerned with the three major orders, Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights, in Western Europe; Spain is excluded since it has...
Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights: Images of the Military Orders, 1128-1291.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...the military orders - Knights of the Temple of Solomon of Jerusalem, and the Knights of the Hospital of St...as the Templars and the Hospitallers - grew to become powerful...third group, the Teutonic Knights, operated with similar...
The Hospitallers, the Mediterranean and Europe. Festschrift for Anthony Luttrell
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; The Hospitallers, the Mediterranean and Europe. Festschrift...Order of the Temple and the Teutonic Knights also receive some coverage. The papers...obvious need of thirteenth-century Hospitallers for crusade indulgences underscores...s statistical analysis of English Hospitaller charters. As Gervers ...
Hedges, hospitallers and a veteran orator.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England); 4/3/2004; 696 words ; ...experience. On the way to the church, set into a wall, I passed the distinctive Cross of the Knights Hospitaller (a medieval order of monk-knights dedicated to sheltering and protecting pilgrims) who once held land in this area. In the church...
Months past: the source of the Nile; the pact to end war; and the fall of the hospitallers: Richard Cavendish introduces this month's anniversaries.
Magazine article from: History Today; 8/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...White Nile (though the lake has several feeder rivers). AUG 15 1308 The Fall of Rhodes The Order of the Knights of St John, or Knights Hosoitallers, was founded in Jerusalem before the First Crusade to care for the sick, elderly and poor among...
The Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England, part 2.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Gervers's work on the Knights Hospitallers will not be surprised...documents from the Hospitaller cartulary of 1442...1147-49), the Hospitallers no longer envisioned...few exceptions the Hospitallers' property in Essex...parishes. While the Knights of the Temple were...
Knights on a unique quest
Newspaper article from: Western Daily Press (Bristol UK); 1/11/2008; 700+ words ; ...long- lost chapel of the Knights Templar in Devon, adding...handed over to the Knights Hospitaller, giving rise to stories...are Knights Templar and Hospitaller connections at Bampton...the site of the Templar or Hospitaller chapel and hospital in Clayhanger...Templars, and then the ...
Church with room for these knights must have room for nearly everyone. (Knights of Malta)(Editorial)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 11/14/1997; 700+ words ; ...to bring them to heel, the hospitallers interrupted his sermons and...history ebbed and flowed, the knights, variously known as the Order...eventually were called the Knights of Malta. Since 1206, writes...divided into three classes: knights, chaplains and sergeants...Although they took vows, each ...
TRIAL OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR FOCUS OF LIBRARY PROGRAM
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/1/2008; 700+ words ; ...following news release: The Knights Templar, relegated to the...W. Commonwealth Ave. The Knights Templar were founded in the...history of the Templars and Hospitallers, the two major military religious...on "The Central Convent of Hospitallers and Templars," and is working...