What Did the Knights Hospitaller Do?

Although they served the Catholic Church and the Knights Templar (who went into battle on the crusades), the Knights Hospitaller were tasked with defending the Holy Land and providing care to those in need. The actual Order still exist today, normally referred to as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

Did the knights Hospitaller fight?

Hospitaller knights were a militaristic religious order of fighting Knights. However unlike the Knights Templar, the Hospitaller knights were not just fighting knights but were also trained to care for injured, sick and dying Christian Crusaders.

What did the Hospitaller Knights do?

It acquired wealth and lands and combined the task of tending the sick with defending the Crusader kingdom. Along with the Templars, the Hospitallers became the most formidable military order in the Holy Land. Courtyard and double portico of the hospital of the Knights of Rhodes, Greece.