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The Order of Malta is one of the most mysterious, prestigious, and powerful knightly orders in history. Its story began in 1080, when the Knights Hospitaller, also known as the Johannites, founded a Christian organization in Jerusalem. Their goal was to care for the poor, the sick, and wounded pilgrims in the Holy Land.

In this episode, we’ll talk about how the Hospitallers built their own war fleet, fought the Ottomans, rivaled the Templars, and became allies of European monarchs. Why did the Russian Emperor Paul I need the Order of Malta? Where did its relics go? How is the order connected to the Freemasons? And what’s happening with the most elite monastic brotherhood today?

Contents:
00:00 About the episode
01:49 How the Knights Hospitaller appeared
05:25 Ad break
06:38 The liberation of Jerusalem
09:06 The order’s rise in popularity
11:09 The Grand Master
13:11 The order’s structure and rules
16:54 Hospitaller holdings
17:25 About the first collector’s issue of CHTIVO
18:42 Involvement in military conflicts
22:17 Richard the Lionheart and the Crusaders
26:00 Transformation into a spiritual order
27:02 Templars versus Hospitallers
30:12 The Siege of Acre
31:40 How the Hospitallers ended up on Rhodes
33:42 The order’s structure on Rhodes
35:41 The Hospitallers’ navy
37:20 A new Crusade
38:24 The Ottomans
44:23 The Order of Malta
47:25 The knights’ last victory
51:30 Slave trade
53:17 Piracy
55:21 Advanced medical care
56:33 The order’s decline in the 18th century
57:43 Ties to Freemasonry
58:30 The Russian Empire’s role in the order’s history
01:00:43 Why Paul I wanted the Order of Malta
01:08:10 Missing relics
01:10:00 The order in the 19th and 20th centuries
01:15:24 Today

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