Knights Hospitallers

British  

noun

1. Also called: Knights of St John of Jerusalem.  Full name: Knights of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem.  a military religious order founded about the time of the first crusade (1096–99) among European crusaders. It took its name from a hospital and hostel in Jerusalem

2. See Hospitaller

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Example Sentences

There stood a small manor belonging to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Knights Hospitallers of St. John, meantime, affected to be much scandalized at what they deemed a desecration of holy ground, and claimed the custody of the place.

From Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 by Various

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

From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir

About one thousand years ago," he said, "the Order of the Knights Hospitallers was organized at Jerusalem, by Italians.

From A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise by Jacob, Robert Urie

By his black robe and the eight-pointed cross upon his sleeve, Alleyne recognized him as one of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, whose presbytery was at Baddesley.

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir