Knights Hospitaller

Timeline

1. 1113–1115Jerusalem · LevantPope Paschal II confirmed by bull the Hospital Order of St. John as an independent religious body, granting it the right to autonomously manage its property and charitable affairs, establishing its formal status as a religious order.
2. 1121–1130Levant · LevantAround the 1120s the order gradually took on military defense duties, forming armed knights while retaining its hospital functions, and alongside the Knights Templar became an important military force of the Crusader states.
3. 1131Mediterranean · MediterraneanAfter the fall of the Crusader states, the order continued to exist successively based on Rhodes and Malta, and its charitable and sovereign traditions continued into the modern era in the form of a sovereign military hospitaller order.