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Knights Hospitaller
Where each worldview places it
Rivals of the Templars on the surface, but "in fact were one and the same and still are today"[1]. They are traced "either to Cairo or to Alamut"[2]. They received the Templar properties and so became the target of the 1381 revolt's vengeance[3].
- Aliases
- HospitalersKnights of Saint JohnOrder of the HospitalKnights of Malta
- Controls / directs
- evolved into the Sovereign Military Order of Maltabribed Pope Adrian IVopposed the Patriarch of Jerusalem[4]
- Answers to / controlled by
- allied with the Knights Templar (one and the same)[1]
- Dates
- 12th century
- 1312 (receive Templar properties)
- 1381 (their prior beheaded)[6]
- Places
- Key events
- they build in front of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and shoot arrows among the patriarch's congregation[1]
- Members / notable people
- Guillaume de Villaret (Master)the Prior of the Hospitallers (Robert Hales, killed 1381)a Genoese captain, per Campanella Columbus, as the Grand Master's guest[7]
- Author's claims
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