Hospitallers
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Hospitallers, also Knights Hospitaller. Their full title, ‘Knights of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem’ derives from the dedication to St
John the Baptist of the hospital at Jerusalem which was their headquarters in the late-11th cent. After 1310 they were also known as the
Knights of Rhodes and from 1530 as the
Knights of Malta.
About 1080 a hospice for pilgrims was established in Jerusalem. After the success of the
Crusaders in 1099, the Order developed and obtained Papal sanction. Its original concern was the care of the sick poor, but in the 12th cent. it developed a wing of brother knights, probably in imitation of the
Templars. They shared both the success and the failures of the Crusaders. After the fall of Acre (1291) they escaped to Cyprus and later conquered Rhodes (1309). They defended Rhodes against the Turks in 1480 but were defeated in 1522. In 1530 they received the island of Malta from
Charles V. They took part in the battle of
Lepanto in 1571 but declined in the 17th and 18th cents., surrendering Malta to Napoleon in 1798. (In 1998 they were granted a castle on the island.) The Order now devotes itself mainly to the maintenance of hospitals.
In England their property was sequestrated in 1540. In the 1820s the French Knights of Malta re-established an English branch on a mainly Anglican basis; it was constituted an order of chivalry in 1888. It was responsible for the foundation of the St John Ambulance Association in 1877 and the St John Ambulance Brigade in 1888.
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