A military order (Latin: militaris ordo) is a Christian religious society of knights. The original military orders were the Knights Templar, the Knights Hospitaller, the ...
Disbanded 700 years ago, the most famous of the medieval Christian orders is undergoing a 21st century revival.
Top 10 Holy Military Оrders – The Strongest and Most Influential Orders · 10. The Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem · 9. The Knights of the Cross with the Red Star.
The Knights Templar · The Hospitallers of St John · The Knights of St Lazarus · The Hospitallers of St Thomas of Canterbury · The Teutonic Knights.
The Knights Templar was a large organization of devout Christians
Originally they were called the Order of the Knights of the Hospital of Saint Mary of the Teutons in Jerusalem. Like the Knights Templar, the ...
During the Crusades the first orders of knights came into being: the ...
Pope Urban II launches the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land.
Clearly the military religious orders began with the justification of Christian warfare during the First ...
of the Crusades that became a model and inspiration for other military orders.