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The Purpose of this Web
Site 
Military Orders Bookshop
Section 2. What is New
on this Web Site?
Continuous research takes place by various enthusiasts researching the
various Orders of St John. A digest of some of the material is given as
Historic Articles (
). Other useful Web Sites are being discovered, and reciprocal
links are being placed. The latest updates will be notified on this Home
page.
If you enjoy visiting this Site please send your comments - How can the Site be improved? - what do you think of the Site? are there any broken links? - either, use the Guest Book, or, Email - both these are found in Section 4.
5th April 2009:
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New Internet find -
There was a series of Coastal Watch Towers built by the Knights of St John
in Malta - see
,
this page leads to another page see -
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The Links to recommended websites had got
out of date (as websites occassionally move around) - so updated links have
been provided - to follow these goto;
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• We report the
sad news that Professor Charles Camilleri on 3 January 2009 at the age of
77. Charles Camilleri is considered Malta’s National composer, and was
a member of the British Association of the Russian Grand Priory.
For his obituary goto -
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An excellent new book has been published
by OSPREY - "Knights of Jerusalem, The Crusader Order of Hospitallers 1100-1565"
an excellent hardback book for only £20, and worth every penny - for
a review goto;
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A new Grand Master
was elected on the 11th March ; His Most Eminent Highness Frà Matthew
Festing to whom we sent our warmest congratualtions goto -
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SAD NEWS. His Most Eminent Highness Frà
Andrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie died on the 7th February 2008, for our tribute
goto;
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There is an excellent
information page on the "Fraters Armigeri
Hospitalis - The Brotherhood Esquires of the Sovereign Military Order of
Malta". The Home page explains its purpose;
"The Fraters Armigeri Hospitalis, also known as the brotherhood esquires
of the sovereign military order of Malta, is an iniative to honour those
families and their ancestors who served the knights of Malta for century´s
as Esquires." The information can be found at: -
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There are various St John Websites that have
produced the Arms of the Grandmasters. One little known version is on a Polish
Site. Please goto
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There is an excellent
book published "Warriors of the Lord - The Military
Orders of Christendom" by Michael Walsh and published by William B.
Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003. see: -
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On this web site, there is an essay which
seeks to explore all known facts about the Hereditary Commanders and the
Russian Grand Priory in exile. It seeks to correct the myths and is based
on all the known facts to date. Please goto
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Are there any Russian
Hereditary Commanders existing in the world today ?- one author thinks not.
For the reason the author thinks not, read the well argued essay once displayed
in the Journal of The International Academy
for the Promotion of Scientific
Studies on -
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Do you need to find out who is who, in the
world of the self-styled "Orders" - which Order has amalgamated with which
- on this Web Site there is a Table of twentyseven "Orders" which through
members in common can be traced back to the Shickshinny Convent/Pichel Order.
The latest edition on Table 27 is the "Supremus Ordo Domus Hospitalis Sancti
Johannis Hyerosolemitani" goto
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The Whichard Lecture
2000, on the "The Charitable and Medical Activities of the Hospitallers and
Templars, Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries" can be found at: -
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Truth stranger than
fiction & the Lady behind the man! The Reverend Sir Robert Peat, was
a founder (inter alia) of what was to become the "Most Venerable Order of
the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem". By all accounts Peat was an eccentric
person, but his wife, an heiress, Lady Jane Peat (née Smith) cuts
an even stranger figure - if you wish to read more, please follow the next
link, where Peat is described as a Mr Collins (The Reverend
William
Collins of
"Pride
and Prejudice" by Jane
Austen, Military Library 1813) - curious? then read about the unsolved
murder and goto: -
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You can find the Portraits
of the Grandmasters of the Order of St John, who ruled Malta at: -
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Paul Alexandrovitch
Demidoff (listed in the in the Almanach de St Petersbourg 1913-1914 page
178 as "ancien officier du reg. des chevaliers gardes, commandant
Héréditaire de l'Ordre de Malte") was the first of
three generations to maintain the Russian Johannine tradition into exile.
A copy of the Diploma of his son can be found on this website see: -
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The Whichard Lecture
2000, on the "The Charitable and Medical Activities of the Hospitallers and
Templars, Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries" can be found at: -
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In 1924, HIH Grand Duke Kirill declared himself
Emperor of Russia, hoping that event would restore the monarchy in Russia
- not for the sake of monarchy but for the sake of Russia itself. This
proclamation did much to keep alive the concept of Monarchy in the minds
of Russians - a process which is bearing fruit today - for the proclamation
- please visit -
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Sometimes web pages
go missing for a while, as its author switches ISP - what web pages? - the
28 Grandmasters of Malta, and a page on the Maltese Cross- please
visit -
and
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• If you are a person
of prayer, please consider praying for Xander Rhys Lowry age 6 who has
lymphoblastic lymphomaeter. The request is made by his parents. For this
and other prayer requests please visit -
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Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin
(1842-1921), a noted Anarchist (Libertarian Socialist) wrote his "Memoirs
of a Revolutionist" 1899, which contains an account of his time in the Corps
de Pages. This is now on the Internet and is covered in nine sections.
The link to the following section is found on the bottom of each page. Goto
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What was the role of the Corps de Pages in
the survival of the Russian tradition of the Order of St John? One ex Cadet
gives his views, and the web page with these views has been published on
this site for a few years. However from a book published in 2001, a different
view emerges. The new information is posted on the bottom of the article
in the form of Notes. Goto -
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• Maurice
Paléologue the last French Ambassador to the Russian Court wrote and
published his memoirs. These were translated by F.A. Holt O.B.E. and published
in English; Paléologue, Maurice (Author), Holt O.B.E., F. A. (Trans),
An Ambassador's Memoirs, New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. For the
entry on Thursday 1st April , 1915, Volume I, Chapter X, Paléologue
describes the Church of the Priory of Malta. Rather than give a link to that
page, here is the link to the Contents page -
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• Full coloured
portraits of the Grandmasters during their time at Malta can be found on
"A Military History of Malta" Website - curious - then goto -
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• There have
been a number of attempts at producing a web site with the complete set of
Coats of Arms for the Grand Masters of the Order, including those of the
modern Order. There has been no one site, which has completed the task -
that is up until now! This site has been put together by a leading member
of the Research Team - John Cilia La Corte. Not only are the shields on display
- but click through for a portrait and further details on each Grand Master
- goto -
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Three Book reviews;
1. The Sword and the Scimitar The Saga of the
Crusades by Ernle Bradford (Pen &
Sword Publisher).
(http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/cgi-bin/uk/0411.html) For the book review goto
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2. Cavalry The History of Mounted
Warfare by John Ellis
(Pen & Sword Publisher)
(http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/cgi-bin/uk/0379.html)
see -
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3.
The
Knight Templar 1120-1312
by Helen Nicholson (Osprey
Publisher): see -
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In 1823, the French
Commission (a group of Knights without official sanction from the Order's
HQ in Rome) sought to aid the Greek's in gaining independence, and in return
to gain Rhodes as the Order's home. The whole plan came to nothing for various
reasons, to be explained in a future text on this website. For the secret
Treaty goto -
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Was Emperor Paul I
mad? His detractors say "Yes". Those who wish to examine the issue in depth
and come to a considered opinion can do no better that to read; "Tsar Paul
and the Question of Madness, An Essay in History and Psychology, Hugh Ragsdale.
Contribution to the Study of World History Number 11 Greenwood Press, Connecticut
1988." - how can you get hold of a copy? Easy it is on a free 'pdf' file
for all to download: goto -
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A new series of information
files are being prepared on the genuine Russian Hereditary Commanders. The
first three of these are now ready;
1. Prince Pierre Ivan Tufiakine, 1769-1845: see -
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2. Prince Ivan Ivanovitch Bariatinsky, 1772-1825: see -
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3. Prince Alexandre Mikhailovitch Bélosselsky-Bélozersky,
1772-1825: see -
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More Pages on other Hereditary Commanders are in preparation. Watch this
space.
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There are plenty of self-styled "St John
Orders" on the Internet - often with domain names that will not come up under
a search on the "St John" name, or are so low down in the search engines
that they rarely get seen on any search. The "Autonomous Priory of the Sovereign
Military Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta, Ltd." is one
such "Order" with its
http://www.knightsroundtable.org/
domain. Do visit:
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There has been an updating of the Self-Styled Order pages, if you wish to
explore the "Orders" categorised as such on this Web Site - please visit:
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Now and again you can
come across some very genuine pages by enthusiasts - there was on the Interent
a series of pages by Louis Henwood covering a history of Malta. The sites
alas is no longer, but you can view the pages via the
"Wayback
Machine" (
).
Louis does provide within this a history of the Knights in Malta until
their ejection by Napoleon see page 18 -
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There is one fault with the site and that you have to access each of the
following pages via the index! The history concerning the Knights ends with
page 27.
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Yet further books have been reviewed - these
from the excellent series of books published by Osprey, well know for the
quality of their illustrations.
"Armies of the Crusades" which provides a wealth
of detail on the many and varied armies which fought in the crusades, including
those of Islam. This has been written by Terence Wise, and illustrated by
Gerry Embleton. Please see -
- where you will find a
BOOK REVIEW .
"The Knights of Christ" covering no less than
17 military Orders of "Warrior Monks" also written by Terence Wise and
illustrated by Richard Scollins. An excellent book - to find out more please
see -
- where you will find a
BOOK REVIEW .
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A new book on the
Knights Templar
by Sean Martin has been published by "Pocket
Essentials" - to find out more about this book please see -
- where you will find a
BOOK REVIEW .
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Archaeopress at the end of last year have
re-published Cecil Torr's book on Rhodes: "Rhodes in
Modern Times". First Published in 1887, the revised edition has additional
material, including a prologue by Elias Kollias. The new edition is edited
by Gerald Brisch. Archaeopress 3rdguides Series, 2003. ISBN 0 9539923 2 2.
Paperback, 274 pages, 5 maps, 10 illustrations. £16.99 (see -
- BOOK
REVIEW ). If you wish to order a copy of the book go to the publishers
site : on -
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You can telephone orders through on (international) +44 1865 311914, or (uk)
01865 311914.
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Some branches of
Freemasonry had claimed that somehow the Orders of the Templar and Hospital
had been continued within their ranks. The Orange Order, a kindred masonic
organisation also followed suit with its Black Knights/Malta Knights. This
latter group entered the North American Scene with the
"Ancient and Illustrious Order Knights
of Malta". On this Web Site is a copy of
one of their history booklets published in 1915. To read it for yourself
please goto -
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Three Web Pages which have not been featured
before on this Web Site:
1) A History of the beginnings of the Order of St John - see
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2) A history of the Priory Palace at Gatchina, with various photographs
displaying such as the Crown of the Order - see
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3) an informative page on Malta's history with details of Napoleon's invasion
of Malta - it has a number historic illustrations - see -
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• New Internet
finds - (1) Historic Hospitaller Sites - Kilmainham Hospital, Dublin
- see
and the Coningsby Hospital, Hereford - see
,
(2) A very good Site by author Stephen C Spiteri - the Fortress Explorer
(mainly Hospitaller, Rhodes and Malta) - goto
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In the 1960s there was an excellent article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica
on the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (today the only article is specifically
about the Sovereign Military Order of Malta). Happily a license has been
granted for this Web Site to display the original article. It is intended
also to provide other articles on the Order, but from books now out of copyright
: For the Britannica Article see
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With around 500 Web pages on this Web Site, and Links to many other Web Sites,
there is much much more to see, so explore the Web Site and enjoy!
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