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Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights
2020The military orders represent a very specific case in the medieval religious world. Those congregations were created with the double perspective of warfare and charity and in their relations to the secular world they were characterised by a major opening than in the case of the traditional monastic orders.
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The Hospitallers as Land-Owners
1967The Hospitallers owed their landed wealth to the generosity of lay benefactors. The great majority of their estates had come into their hands through gifts, over half of which were eleemosynary, the lands thus acquired being subject to no service other than that of prayer.
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Notes and QueriesHospitaller Sisters in the Twelfth Century
2012Hospitaller sorores [sisters] of the twelfth century were women associated with the Hospital of Saint John who were not explicitly lay and who were probably, but due to confusing terminology not necessarily, professed.1 These sisters sometimes associated themselves with Hospitaller commanderies that also housed brothers; consequently, some Hospitaller ...
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