The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, commonly known as the Order of St John, and also known as St John International, is an order of chivalry constituted in 1888 by roy
Breast star of a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John
Priory of St John at Clerkenwell, London in 1661, by Wenceslaus Hollar
St John's Gate, London, in 1880
King George V, Emperor of India, Sovereign Head of the Order from 1910 until his death in 1936
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta, officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, and commonly known as the Order of Malta or the Knights o
Order of Saint John (chartered 1888)
…the Middle Ages, the oldest surviving chivalric order which is generally considered to be founded in Jerusalem in 1099, which was later known as the Order of Malta. A faction of them emerged in France in the 1820s and moved to Britain in the early 1830s, where, after operating under a succession of grand priors…
Blessed Gerard, founder of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. Copper engraving by Laurent Cars, about 1725.
Portrait of an unknown Knight of Malta, by Titian, c. 1508, Uffizi
The Battle of Lepanto (1571), unknown artist, late 16th century
Emperor Paul of Russia wearing the Crown of the Grand Master of the Order of Malta (1799)