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Knights of St. John
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Knights Hospitaller
The
Order of the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem
, also known as
Order of Saint John
,
Order of Hospitallers
,
Knights Hospitaller
, and the
Hospitallers
, was the name of the precedent medieval military organisation of the contemporary
Sovereign Military Order of Malta
, one of the most prominent of the
Roman Catholic
military order
s and still today a
sovereign subject
of
international law
. It was headquartered in the
Kingdom of Jerusalem
,
Rhodes
and
Malta
, until it became known by its current name.
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