Questions tagged [hospitallers]
The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, commonly known as the Knights Hospitaller, the Knights of Malta, or the Order of Saint John, was a medieval and early modern Catholic military order.
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How did Jean Parisot de Valette, 49th Grand Master of the Order of Malta, die?
I've just finished reading Sword and Scimitar by Simon Scarrow and wanted to know more about the non-fictional characters in the Siege of Malta. Jean Parisot de La Valette was the Grand Master and he ...
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Is (or was) there a version of the Maltese Cross with the right arrowhead missing? Does it have a name?
I'm trying to answer a question (link in Spanish) in the Spanish language site about a funny definition a user found in the Royal Spanish Academy's dictionary. It follows:
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What was the Hospitaller gonfalon like in the 12th and 13th centuries?
The Templar Order had a gonfalon (a military standard of a specific type) of black and white called the beauseant (I have come to prefer the spelling most common in the book I first took it from ...
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Why didn't the Ottomans besiege Malta after 1565?
The Great Siege of Malta didn't work out but one would think that given the crucial strategic position of Malta, the Ottomans would have made another attempt at a later date.
Why didn't that happen?
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