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

Further behind, the Knights Hospitallers protected the rear, guarding the column of the hosts of Christendom from harassment by the Bedouins.

From ...After a Few Words... by Garrett, Randall

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

Dja'bal, son of Youssof, a sheikh, and saved by Maä'ni, in the great massacre of the sheikhs by the Knights Hospitallers in the Spo'radês.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

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

From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir