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A 1742 Tarì coin of the Knights Hospitaller, depicting the head of John the Baptist on a platter. Arms of the Knights Hospitallers, quartered with those of Pierre d'Aubusson, on a bombard. In 1604, each Langue was given a chapel in the conventual church of Saint John and the arms of the Langue appear in the decoration on the walls and ceiling:
Bailiff was the rank and title of the head of each of the bailiwicks of the Knights Hospitaller and also of the head, at Rhodes and Malta, of one of the seven, later eight, Langues (or tongues) into which the members of the Knights Hospitaller were grouped once the Order was established on Rhodes and subsequently on Malta.
The Knights Hospitaller (2001). Riley-Smith, Jonathan. Hospitallers: The History of the Order of St John (1999). Morten, Nicholas Edward. The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land 1190-1291 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2009) Forey, Alan John. The Military Orders: From the Twelfth to the Early Fourteenth Centuries. *(Basingstoke: Macmillan Education ...
From the beginning, the Templars, Hospitallers and Turcopoles placed in the vanguard could not withstand the shock of the attack. They asked Guy de Lusignan, for urgent help. But reinforcements were slow in coming and the defeat became a rout, with only 200 knights and 1000 men escaping. The rest were killed, including William Borrel.
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.
The members of the Order thus became known as Knights of St. John or Hospitallers. The formal establishment of the Knights Hospitaller under Brother Gerard was confirmed by a Papal bull of Pope Paschal II in 1113. Gerard acquired territory and revenues for his order throughout the Kingdom of Jerusalem and beyond.
Map of commandries of the Order of Saint John in 1300. The Order of Saint John (Knights of Malta, Knights Hospitaller) was organised in a system of commanderies during the high medieval to early modern periods, to some extent surviving as the organisational structure of the several descended orders that formed after the Reformation.
Ottoman attacks were still expected, but there were no longer any notable engagements. 62/63 Prince and Grand Master Adrien de Wignacourt: 1690–1697 Instituted a widows pension for the widows of those fallen in the Ottoman wars. 63/64 Prince and Grand Master Ramon Perellós: 1697–1720 Organised the Consulato del Mare (Consulate of the Sea).