Knights Hospitallers
Britishnoun
-
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
-
See Hospitaller
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
There stood a small manor belonging to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem.
From Time Magazine Archive
He placed the hospital under the care of the Master of the Knights Hospitallers.
From Vanishing England by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
The Knights Hospitallers, in the person of their Master, Raymund, were in 1151 A.D. put in charge of the foundation.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Sergeant, Philip Walsingham
The proudest, bravest and richest order in Christendom was crushed or scattered to the four corners of the world; their vast estates were nominally confiscated to the Knights Hospitallers.
From The Story of Paris by Kimball, Katherine
They seem to have separated from the Knights Hospitallers at the end of the 11th, or beginning of the 12th centuries.
From The Leper in England: with some account of English lazar-houses by Hope, Robert Charles
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
