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Military order (society)
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Military order (monastic society)
A
military order
is a
confraternity
of
knights
, originally established as Catholic religious societies during the
medieval
Crusades
for protection of
Christians
in response to the aggression and
persecution
of the
Islamic conquests
(623–1050) in the
Holy Land
and the
Iberian Peninsula
, as well as by
Baltic paganism
in
Eastern Europe
. Most members, often referred to as knights, were
laymen
, not priests, but sometimes cooperated with the
clergy
, taking
vows
such as poverty, chastity, and obedience according to
monastic
religious vows
.
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