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The Order of Knights Templar was founded around 1119-1120 and it is likely that the Hospitallers were inspired by them to have their own knights. A charter made for a gift to the Hospital of St John in a Christian army on 17 January 1126 recorded that a brother from the Order was present as a witness and that he held a military title.
The history of the Knights Hospitaller in the Levant is concerned with the early years of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, the Knights Hospitaller, through 1309. The Order was formed in the later part of the eleventh century and played a major role in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, in particular, the Crusades.
William (Guillaume) Borrel was the Grand Commander of the Knights Hospitaller, appointed to the position on 1 February 1186. He was at his post when his superior Roger de Moulins was killed at the Spring of Cresson near Nazareth by a lance wound to the chest on 1 May 1187. [2]
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The Hospitallers then moved their headquarters to Rhodes. However, despite the huge benefits to his Order from the suppression of the Knights Templar (the Templars' assets were assigned to the Hospitallers by the Pope in 1312), Villaret's campaigns of territorial expansion ran the Order heavily into debt, and these debts were not paid off until ...
The military order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem originated in a leper hospital founded in the twelfth century by crusaders of the Latin Kingdom. There had been earlier leper hospitals in the East, of which the Knights of St. Lazarus claimed to be the continuation, in order to have the appearance of remote antiquity and to pass as the oldest of all orders.
The Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem Knights Hospitaller descends from the ecumenical Order that was established by Russian Tsar Paul I. [19] Just prior to the Russian Revolution, this order moved to the United States. [20] Its Commanderies of Glasgow and London were formed in 2013. [21]
In the wake of the success of the First Crusade in 1099, he became the founder of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, also known as the Knights Hospitaller, an organization that received papal recognition in 1113. As such, he was the first Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller. [2]