The Knights Hospitallers: Difference between revisions

* A sort of appearance in the [[Belisarius Series]]. The military religious order founded by Michael of Macedonia on the suggestion of Aide are ''called'' the Knights Hospitaller most of the time, though the imagery used (especially the red cross on white) is usually that of the Knights Templar. One edition even slips up and calls them Templars in one instance.

* Dorothy Dunnett's ''The Disorderly Knights'', third book in the ''Lymond Chronicles'', depicts the 1651 siege of Malta, in which the Turks sack Gozo and take Tripoli. Grand Master Juan de Homedes is portrayed as a greedy incompetent, while the knights are too distracted by in-fighting to focus on their defenses. Many of the individual knights do mean well {{spoiler|including Lymond's childhood friend and future sidekick Jerott Blythe}}, but the blindness of their faith leaves them suceptible to anti-Muslim bigotry as well as to manipulation by charismatic leaders {{spoiler|such as Lymond's great antagonist, the falsely-pious knight Gabriel}}.

 

 

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* [[Dungeons and Dragons]] has featured various Paladin variants known as Knights Hospitaller; they focus more on the normally secondary casting/healing aspects of the base class than its martial ability.

* One of the best defense-and-counterattack oriented armies in the DBM and DBMM.

 

 

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'': With the Templars operating as a mysterious background force, Hospitallers represent a lot of the generic knights to be stabbed-inna-throat in Acre. One of the high-profile targets is their leader, an actual surgeon in an early mental asylum. Of course, prone to massive historical revisionism.

* In both [[Total War]] games set in the Medieval period, Hospitallers appear in the roster of almost all Christian factions (along with Templars, Teutonics and the Knights of Santiago). In ''Medieval'' they only appear as part of the free troops granted when a crusade is launched, while Medieval II allows the creation of Hospitaller guilds in any province, although the prerequisites for them quasi-require a Crusade or two. ''Medieval II'''s extension campaign centered around the Crusader Kingdoms expands their roster a lot. Finally, in ''Empire'', the Knights of Malta are their own minor faction which usually spends the whole game keeping the Barbary Pirates in check.