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The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, [a] and commonly known as the Order of Malta or the Knights of Malta, is a Catholic lay religious order, traditionally of a military, chivalric, and noble nature. [4]
In 1753 proclaimed the sovereignty of the Order on Malta and a dispute started with the Kingdom of Sicily under King Charles V. Normal relations were resumed the next year, with the Order retaining de facto control over Malta as a sovereign state. [15] 68/69 Prince and Grand Master Francisco Ximénez de Tejada: 1773–1775
The Order arrived in Malta on 26 October 1530 on a number of ships, including the San Giovanni, Santa Croce, San Filippo, and the flagship Santa Anna. [5] While based in Malta, the Order and its navy participated in a number of naval battles against the Ottoman Navy or the Barbary pirates.
Hospitaller Malta, known in Maltese history as the Knights' Period (Maltese: Żmien il-Kavallieri, [3] [4] lit. ' Time of the Knights '), was a de facto state which existed between 1530 and 1798 when the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Gozo were ruled by the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
The Order has non-diplomatic official relations with five more states: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Canada and the United Kingdom. [1] [3] [4] The Order exchanges ambassadors with the European Union and the State of Palestine. [1] [2] Embassy of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Pages in category "History of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Banners of the order at the Siege of Rhodes (1480), shown as gules a cross argent, and as counter-quarterly gules a cross argent and or a cross ancrée gules (c. 1483).. The arms of the Knights Hospitaller were granted in 1130 by Pope Innocent II, for differentiation from the Templars who displayed the reversed colours.
Princes and grand masters of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (1 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Sovereign Military Order of Malta" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.