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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Knights Hospitallers

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1324, when the King granted the Knights Hospitallers the New Temple, the latter let the Temple to "divers apprentices of the law that came from Thaveis Inn in Holborn."

From The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell

In 1540, on the dissolution of the Order of Knights Hospitallers, the two societies became yearly tenants of the Crown, and took over the charge of the fabric of the church.

From Memorials of Old London Volume I by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

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

From 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 by George Worley

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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle