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Showing posts with label Knights Hospitaller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Knights Hospitaller. Show all posts
01 June 2025

Guillaume Caoursin

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Yesterday's post on Mesih Pasha mentions the Siege of Rhodes in 1480, when a small garrison of Knights Hospitallers at Rhodes withstood...
31 May 2025

The Mesih End

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Mesih Pasha was chosen from obscurity—we don't even know his original name before Mehmed II forced him to convert to Islam and made him...
05 March 2022

Jerusalem Hospital

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The Hospitallers were nicknamed thus because they were founded by members of the First Crusade who joined together to protect a hospital bui...
04 March 2022

What About the Hospitallers?

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  Pope Clement V, who approved the order to arrest all the Templars, had earlier told them to merge with the Hospitallers, since it didn...
02 March 2022

The Inner Temple

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Why were two of the compounds for legal training in London named "Inner Temple" and "Middle Temple"? First, let's ex...
13 December 2013

The Templars' Bad Luck Day

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(This one may meander a little; just hang on.) A few days after William Tell shot the apple from his son's head in 1307, another si...
13 October 2012

The Templars in England

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In 1307, on Friday the 13th of October, King Philip of France ordered the head of the Knights of the Temple, Jacques de Molay, arrested alo...
02 August 2012

Muslim-Christian Relations, Part 2 (of 2)

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[Part 1 is here .] Saladin After Richard and Saladin each slaughtered their prisoners, Richard marched to Jaffa, which he hoped to mak...