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Web information about the Military Orders, Hospitallers (Hospitalers) and Templars, can get a little nutty.  It was probably less nutty prior to the publication of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code...but then, there it is.  I have attempted to find reputable history sites for my links.  My intent here is to get to the basics and not spin out too crazily across the universe.  The core of this page is comprised of information from Abbot Gasquet's book English Monastic Life. Gasquet published the book through The Antiquaries Book series in 1904.  It is now out of print and not generally available.  There may be a number of factual errors in the text, or points on which historians or theologians do not agree.    Gasquet's text, notes & links>>
           

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Knight Hospitallers


           The Hospitallers began in A.D. 1092 with the building of a hospital for pilgrims at Jerusalem.  The original idea of the work of these visiting knights was to provide for the needs of pilgrims visiting the Holy Land and to afford them protection on their way. They, too, followed a rule of life founded upon that of St. Augustine, and their dress was black with a white cross upon it.  They came to England very shortly after their foundation, and had a house built for them in London in A.D. 1100.  They rose in wealth and importance in the country ; and their head, or grand prior as he was called, became the first lay baron in England, and had a seat in the House of Peers. 

Upon many of their manors and estates the Knights Hospitallers had small establishments name commanderies, which were under the government of one of their number, called the commander.  These houses were sometimes known as preceptories, but this was a term more generally used for the establishments of the other great Military Order, known as the Templars.  An offshoot of both these orders was known as “The Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem.”  There were a few houses of this branch in England, which was founded chiefly to assist and support lepers and indigent members of the Military Orders.  They are, however, usually regarded as hospitals.  The Knights of St. John of Jerusalem had their headquarters at the Hospital of St. John, near Clerkenwell, to which were attached some fifty-three cells or commanderies. 


   English Monastic Life by F.A. Gasquet.  (page 230.)


Hospitaller Houses in England
(Combined Hospitaller & Templar houses on the Templar page. For more English Religious Houses, see the index page):


Anstey

 

Wilts.

Barrow

 

Derbyshire.

Battisford

 

Suffolk.

Beverley

 

Yorks, E. R.

Bretesford

 

Suffolk.

Brimpton

 

Berks.

Bruerne, or Temple Bruer

Temple

Lincoln.

Buckland Minchin

 

Somerset.

Carbroke

 

Norfolk.

Chippenham

 

Cambridge.

Clerkenwell (see London).

 

 

Combe

Temple

Somerset.

Cowley, or Sandford

Temple

Oxford.

Dalby

 

Leicester.

Dingley

 

Northants.

Dinmore

 

Hereford.

Dunwich

 

Suffolk.

Egle, of Eycle

 

Lincoln.

Friermagna  (see Mayne)

 

Dorset.

Godesfield

 

Hants.

Gosford  (Kidlington)

 

Oxford.

Greenham

 

Berks.

Hampton

 

Middlesex.

Hawstone

 

Salop.

Hither, or Hether

 

Leicester.

Hogshaw

 

Bucks.

London, Clerkenwell

 

Middlesex.

Louth, or Maltby

 

Lincoln.

Maplestead

 

Essex.

Mayne, or Friar Magna

 

Dorset.

Melchburne

 

Beds.

Mount St. John

 

Yorks.

Newland

 

Yorks.

Peckham, Little, or West

 

Kent.

Pooling

 

Sussex.

Queinington

 

Gloucester.

Ribstone

 

Yorks.

Rockley

Temple

Wilts.

Sandford  (see Cowley)

 

Oxford.

Shengay

 

Cambridge.

Skirbeke

 

Lincoln.

Slanden

 

Herts.

Slebach

 

Pembroke.

Sutton-at-Hone

 

Kent.

Swinford

 

Leicester.

Templecombe (see Combe)

 

Somerset.

Trebigh, or Turbigh

 

Cornwall.

Wilhelme

 

Lincoln.

Wilketon

 

Gloucester.

Willoughton

 

Lincoln.

Yeveley, or Stede

 

Derby.





Hospitaller Links:

 
'Houses of Knights Hospitaller: Preceptory of Balsall and Grafton', A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 2 (1908), pp. 100-01.  British History Online

'House of Knights Hospitaller: Preceptory of Battisford', A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2 (1975), pp. 120-21.  British History Online

The Order of Malta.  Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta official site.

The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.

The Alliance of Orders of St. John of Jerusalem.

Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem (Also known as Knights of Malta), an article from Newadvent.org.

Military Orders, A Guide to Online Resources.  An ORB Encyclopedia Page.

The Crusading Orders, a page that links to articles and information from Crusades-Encyclopedia.




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