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HOSPITALLERS

Volume 10 · 68 words · 1815 Edition

HOSPITALARI, an order of religious knights, who built an hospital at Jerusalem, wherein pilgrims were received. To these Pope Clement V. transferred the effects and revenues of the Templars; whom, by a council held at Vienne, he suppressed for their many and great misdemeanours. These hospitallers were otherwise called Knights of St John of Jerusalem; and are the same with those whom we now call Knights of Malta.