Knights Hospitallers

Founded more than 900 years ago (with a few breaks since), the Knights of St. John, also known as the Knights Hospitallers, guarded pilgrims and fought in the Crusades.

Aftermath News 2008

Marquis he said, was a traitor, who had robbed the Knights Hospitallers of sixty thousand pounds, the present of his father Henry; that he was a renegade, whose treachery had occasioned the loss of Acre; and he concluded by a solemn oath, that he would cause him to be drawn to pieces by wild horses, if he should ever venture to pollute the Christian camp by his presence.

The Talisman 2008

“To the Knights Hospitallers,” said the Abbot; “I have a brother of their order.”

Ivanhoe 2004

“I grant thee, Nathan, that it is a dwelling of those to whom the despised Children of the Promise are a stumbling-block and an abomination; yet thou knowest that pressing affairs of traffic sometimes carry us among these bloodthirsty Nazarene soldiers, and that we visit the Preceptories of the Templars, as well as the Commanderies of the Knights Hospitallers, as they are called.”

Ivanhoe 2004

On the north-west was the Priory of St. John-of-Jerusalem, founded by the Knights Hospitallers.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less George Worley

In 1291 the Soldan of Egypt chased the Knights Hospitallers, as they were also known, from the soil of the Holy Land; Philip IV. of France welcomed them in the island of Cyprus, and gave them the town of Limasol as an asylum.

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

The number of privileges in favour of the Knights Hospitallers is remarkable.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

In addition he taught both in the school of the Knights Hospitallers and in the cathedral school.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Pribislaw endowed largely with lands, there were founded monasteries of Benedictines, Franciscans, Premonstratensians, of the religious orders of Knights Hospitallers, of St. Anthony, etc.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

The Knights Hospitallers, in the person of their Master, Raymund, were in 1151 A.D. put in charge of the foundation.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Philip Walsingham Sergeant 1912