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colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Hospitaller conquest of Rhodes</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;">Part of the <a href="/wiki/Crusades" title="Crusades">Crusades</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;line-height:1.5em;"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:1310_Rhodes.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/1310_Rhodes.jpg/220px-1310_Rhodes.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/1310_Rhodes.jpg/330px-1310_Rhodes.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/1310_Rhodes.jpg/440px-1310_Rhodes.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2884" data-file-height="2138" /></a></span><br /><i>Prise de Rhodes, 15 août 1310</i> (oil on canvas by <a href="/wiki/%C3%89loi_Firmin_F%C3%A9ron" title="Éloi Firmin Féron">Éloi Firmin Féron</a>, 1838–1839)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><table style="width:100%;margin:0;padding:0;border:0;display:inline-table"><tbody><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Date</th><td>23 June 1306–15 August 1310</td></tr><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Location</th><td><div class="location"><a href="/wiki/Rhodes" title="Rhodes">Rhodes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dodecanese" title="Dodecanese">Dodecanese</a></div></td></tr><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Result</th><td class="status"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Hospitaller victory</li></ul></div> <ul><li>Rhodes is captured by the Hospitallers.</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Belligerents</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Knights_Hospitaller" title="Knights Hospitaller">Knights Hospitaller</a></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Byzantine_imperial_flag%2C_14th_century.svg/21px-Byzantine_imperial_flag%2C_14th_century.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Byzantine_imperial_flag%2C_14th_century.svg/32px-Byzantine_imperial_flag%2C_14th_century.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Byzantine_imperial_flag%2C_14th_century.svg/42px-Byzantine_imperial_flag%2C_14th_century.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="648" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire_under_the_Palaiologos_dynasty" title="Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty">Byzantine Empire</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Commanders and leaders</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Foulques_de_Villaret" title="Foulques de Villaret">Foulques de Villaret</a></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Byzantine_imperial_flag%2C_14th_century.svg/21px-Byzantine_imperial_flag%2C_14th_century.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Byzantine_imperial_flag%2C_14th_century.svg/32px-Byzantine_imperial_flag%2C_14th_century.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Byzantine_imperial_flag%2C_14th_century.svg/42px-Byzantine_imperial_flag%2C_14th_century.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="648" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Andronikos_II_Palaiologos" title="Andronikos II Palaiologos">Andronikos II</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" 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style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Crusade" title="Fourth Crusade">Fourth Crusade</a></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(1203)" title="Siege of Constantinople (1203)">Constantinople (1203)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople" title="Sack of Constantinople">Constantinople (1204)</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Epirote–Latin wars</dt></dl> <ul><li>Campaigns of <a href="/wiki/Michael_I_Komnenos_Doukas#Expansion_and_death" title="Michael I Komnenos Doukas">Michael I Komnenos Doukas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Komnenos_Doukas" title="Theodore Komnenos Doukas">Theodore Komnenos Doukas</a></li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Nicaean%E2%80%93Latin_wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicaean–Latin wars">Nicaean–Latin wars</a></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Adramyttion_(1205)" title="Battle of Adramyttion (1205)">Adramyttion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Rhyndacus_(1211)" title="Battle of the Rhyndacus (1211)">Rhyndacus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Poimanenon" title="Battle of Poimanenon">Poimanenon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(1235)" title="Siege of Constantinople (1235)">Constantinople (1235)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Constantinople_(1241)" title="Battle of Constantinople (1241)">Constantinople (1241)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pelagonia" title="Battle of Pelagonia">Pelagonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(1260)" title="Siege of Constantinople (1260)">Constantinople & Galata (1260)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reconquest_of_Constantinople" title="Reconquest of Constantinople">Constantinople (1261)</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Conflicts in the Morea</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Olive_Grove_of_Kountouras" title="Battle of the Olive Grove of Kountouras">Grove of Kountouras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Prinitza" title="Battle of Prinitza">Prinitza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Makryplagi" title="Battle of Makryplagi">Makryplagi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Saint_George" title="Battle of Saint George">Saint George</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gardiki" title="Battle of Gardiki">Gardiki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Echinades_(1427)" title="Battle of the Echinades (1427)">Echinades</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantine_XI_Palaiologos#Despot_of_the_Morea" title="Constantine XI Palaiologos">Campaigns of Constantine XI</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Angevin–Byzantine conflict</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Neopatras" title="Battle of Neopatras">Neopatras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Demetrias" title="Battle of Demetrias">Demetrias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Licario" title="Licario">Licario's campaigns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Berat_(1280%E2%80%931281)" title="Siege of Berat (1280–1281)">Berat</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Wars with the Venetians, Catalans, and others</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Genoese_occupation_of_Rhodes" title="Genoese occupation of Rhodes">Genoese occupation of Rhodes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Settepozzi" title="Battle of Settepozzi">Settepozzi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Venetian_War_(1296%E2%80%931302)" title="Byzantine–Venetian War (1296–1302)">Byzantine–Venetian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Apros" title="Battle of Apros">Apros</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Hospitaller conquest of Rhodes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Genoese_War_(1348%E2%80%931349)" title="Byzantine–Genoese War (1348–1349)">Byzantine–Genoese War</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div> <p>The <b>Hospitaller conquest of Rhodes</b> took place in 1306–1310. The <a href="/wiki/Knights_Hospitaller" title="Knights Hospitaller">Knights Hospitaller</a>, led by Grand Master <a href="/wiki/Foulques_de_Villaret" title="Foulques de Villaret">Foulques de Villaret</a>, landed on the island in summer 1306 and quickly conquered most of it except for the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Rhodes" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Rhodes">city of Rhodes</a>, which remained in <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> hands. Emperor <a href="/wiki/Andronikos_II_Palaiologos" title="Andronikos II Palaiologos">Andronikos II Palaiologos</a> sent reinforcements, which allowed the city to repel the initial Hospitaller attacks, and persevere until it was captured on 15 August 1310. The Hospitallers transferred their base to the island, which became the centre of their activities until it was <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Rhodes_(1522)" title="Siege of Rhodes (1522)">conquered</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a> in 1522. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hospitaller_conquest_of_Rhodes&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The conquest of <a href="/wiki/Rhodes" title="Rhodes">Rhodes</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Knights_Hospitaller" title="Knights Hospitaller">Knights Hospitaller</a> is narrated by a large number of sources of varying detail and reliability. The most reliable sources include the contemporary <a href="/wiki/Byzantine" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine">Byzantine</a> historian <a href="/wiki/George_Pachymeres" title="George Pachymeres">George Pachymeres</a>, whose <i>History</i> only extends to 1307,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992114–118_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992114–118-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the various biographies of <a href="/wiki/Pope_Clement_V" title="Pope Clement V">Pope Clement V</a> (r. 1305–1314), which offer different details, but do not contradict each other, and are generally reliable.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992118–119_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992118–119-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These are complemented by a number of papal ordinances and correspondence in the archives of the <a href="/wiki/Holy_See" title="Holy See">Holy See</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Crown_of_Aragon" title="Crown of Aragon">Crown of Aragon</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992126–128_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992126–128-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as the 14th-century French chronicle of Gérard de Monréal (or <i>Chronicle of the <a href="/wiki/Templar_of_Tyre" title="Templar of Tyre">Templar of Tyre</a></i>), and the 16th-century Italian chronicles of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Francesco_Amadi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Francesco Amadi (page does not exist)">Francesco Amadi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Florio_Bustron" title="Florio Bustron">Florio Bustron</a>. These are chiefly concerned with the affairs of <a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a> and the troubled relationship between the Hospitallers and the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Cyprus" title="Kingdom of Cyprus">Lusignan kings</a> of the island, and are not very reliable as histories, containing much popular tradition and anecdotal or legendary information.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992121–122_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992121–122-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hospitaller_conquest_of_Rhodes&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Founded in <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> in 1070, the Order of the Hospital became one of the most important <a href="/wiki/Military_order_(monastic_society)" class="mw-redirect" title="Military order (monastic society)">military orders</a>, with a significant presence not only in the <a href="/wiki/Crusader_states" title="Crusader states">Crusader states</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Levant" title="Levant">Levant</a>, but also controlling large properties in Western Europe. Following the <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Acre" class="mw-redirect" title="Fall of Acre">Fall of Acre</a> in 1291, the Order had moved its base to <a href="/wiki/Limassol" title="Limassol">Limassol</a> in Cyprus.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975278–280_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975278–280-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their position in Cyprus was precarious; their limited income made them dependent on donations from Western Europe and involved them in quarrels with King <a href="/wiki/Henry_II_of_Cyprus" title="Henry II of Cyprus">Henry II of Cyprus</a>, while the loss of Acre and the Holy Land led to widespread questioning on the purpose of the monastic orders, and proposals to confiscate their possessions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975280–281_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975280–281-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Gérard de Monréal, as soon as he was elected as Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller in 1305, <a href="/wiki/Foulques_de_Villaret" title="Foulques de Villaret">Foulques de Villaret</a> planned the conquest of Rhodes, which would ensure him a liberty of action that he could not have as long as the Order remained on Cyprus, and would provide a new base for war against the Turks.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992122_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992122-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975281_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975281-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rhodes was an attractive target: a fertile island, it was strategically located off the southwestern coast of <a href="/wiki/Asia_Minor" class="mw-redirect" title="Asia Minor">Asia Minor</a>, astride the trade routes to either <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a> or <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a> and the Levant. The island was a <a href="/wiki/Byzantine" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine">Byzantine</a> possession, but the empire was in crisis following the Turkish conquest of most of its territories in Asia in the first years of the 14th century and in the face of the devastation of its European territories by the <a href="/wiki/Catalan_Company" title="Catalan Company">Catalan Company</a>. Its control of its Aegean island territories was increasingly tenuous and in places delegated to <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Genoa" title="Republic of Genoa">Genoese</a> freebooters, who mingled naval service to Byzantium with opportunistic aggression. In 1305 the Genoese <a href="/wiki/Benedetto_I_Zaccaria" title="Benedetto I Zaccaria">Benedetto Zaccaria</a>, already ruler of the port of <a href="/wiki/Phokaia" class="mw-redirect" title="Phokaia">Phokaia</a> under Byzantine sovereignty, had requested the island of <a href="/wiki/Chios" title="Chios">Chios</a> from the Emperor <a href="/wiki/Andronikos_II_Palaiologos" title="Andronikos II Palaiologos">Andronikos II Palaiologos</a> (r. 1282–1328), in order to protect it from the Turks and Catalans, before seizing it by force and then securing recognition of his control from the emperor. In the <a href="/wiki/Dodecanese" title="Dodecanese">Dodecanese</a>, Andronikos's Genoese admiral <a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrea_Moresco&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andrea Moresco (page does not exist)">Andrea Moresco</a> and his brother <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lodovico_Moresco&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lodovico Moresco (page does not exist)">Lodovico</a> had been assigned the islands of <a href="/wiki/Kassos" class="mw-redirect" title="Kassos">Kassos</a> and <a href="/wiki/Karpathos" title="Karpathos">Karpathos</a>, and their relative <a href="/w/index.php?title=Vignolo_de%27_Vignoli&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vignolo de' Vignoli (page does not exist)">Vignolo de' Vignoli</a> claimed <a href="/wiki/Kos" title="Kos">Kos</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leros" title="Leros">Leros</a> and the district of Lardos on Rhodes by imperial grants.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975282–283_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975282–283-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the power of these Byzantine clients in the islands was forcefully contested by the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Venice" title="Republic of Venice">Republic of Venice</a> and various families of its citizens, who had originally established themselves in the region under the authority of the now defunct <a href="/wiki/Latin_Empire_of_Constantinople" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin Empire of Constantinople">Latin Empire of Constantinople</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975282_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975282-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The repudiation of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Union_of_Lyons&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Union of Lyons (page does not exist)">Union of Lyons</a> on the accession of Andronikos in 1282 had reopened the schism between the eastern and western churches and Byzantium was again regarded as a legitimate target for crusading and other military aggression in the name of Latin Christendom. In 1299, the Pope had proposed that <a href="/wiki/Frederick_III_of_Sicily" title="Frederick III of Sicily">Frederick III of Sicily</a> capture Rhodes, and his half-brother Sancho, a Hospitaller knight, led an unsuccessful expedition in Greek waters in 1305, aiming to capture some Byzantine islands. In the same year, the scholar <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Lull" class="mw-redirect" title="Raymond Lull">Raymond Lull</a> identified Rhodes as a suitable base for naval operations to prevent Christians from trading with the Muslims, and advocated its capture as part of plans for a new crusade in the East by <a href="/wiki/Charles_of_Valois" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles of Valois">Charles of Valois</a>, the titular Latin Emperor. </p><p>The Cypriot chronicles indicate that Foulques de Villaret entered into a contract with a Genoese, named as Boniface di Grimaldi by Gérard de Monréal and Vignolo de' Vignoli by the two Italian chronicles. The latter are probably correct, since a document survives, dated 27 May 1306, concluded between Villaret and other representatives of the Order and Vignolo.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992122–124_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992122–124-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarr201566_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarr201566-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The latter thereby ceded his rights on Kos and Leros to the Hospitallers, with the right of retaining Lardos and one more estate of his own choice on Rhodes. In the other islands near Rhodes they would conquer, Vignolo would enjoy extensive rights as "<i><a href="/wiki/Vicarius" title="Vicarius">vicarius</a> seu <a href="/wiki/Justiciar" title="Justiciar">justiciarius</a></i>", albeit the Knights themselves and their servants would be under the direct jurisdiction of the Grand Master. Vignolo and the Knights would jointly appoint the tax collectors for the islands other than Rhodes, and would divide their income, with two thirds going to the Order and one third to Vignolo.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975283_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975283-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pope Clement V was most likely kept in the dark about the Hospitallers' designs on Rhodes, as no mention of it is made in the contemporary correspondence between the Pope and Villaret.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarr201566_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarr201566-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Conquest_of_the_island">Conquest of the island</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hospitaller_conquest_of_Rhodes&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Conquest of the island"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Feraklos_Castle_Haraki_Rhodes.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Feraklos_Castle_Haraki_Rhodes.jpg/220px-Feraklos_Castle_Haraki_Rhodes.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="122" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Feraklos_Castle_Haraki_Rhodes.jpg/330px-Feraklos_Castle_Haraki_Rhodes.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Feraklos_Castle_Haraki_Rhodes.jpg/440px-Feraklos_Castle_Haraki_Rhodes.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5616" data-file-height="3105" /></a><figcaption>The Castle of Feraklos in 2016</figcaption></figure> <p>On 23 June, Villaret and Vignolo sailed from Limassol, with two war galleys and four other vessels, carrying a force of 35 Knights, 6 Levantine horsemen, and 500 foot soldiers. To them were added some Genoese ships. The expedition first put in at <a href="/wiki/Kastellorizo" title="Kastellorizo">Kastellorizo</a>, whence Vignolo went ahead to reconnoitre Rhodes. The locals were warned, however, by a Greek serving the Order, and Vignolo barely escaped and made it back to rendezvous with Villaret. In the meantime, two Knights with fifty men had captured the castle of Kos, but were evicted again by Byzantine reinforcements.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975283–284_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975283–284-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The allies then sailed to Rhodes. The chronicles of Amadi and Bustron provide the most detailed account of subsequent events: a first assault on the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Rhodes" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Rhodes">city of Rhodes</a> by land and sea failed, but on 20 September, the Hospitallers captured the (probably deserted) <a href="/wiki/Feraklos_Castle" title="Feraklos Castle">Feraklos Castle</a> on the island's eastern coast. Five days later they launched another unsuccessful attack on the city, which resisted until November. On 11 November, they took the citadel of Filerimos (ancient <a href="/wiki/Ialysos" title="Ialysos">Ialysos</a>) through the treason of a local Greek; the garrison of 300 Turks was massacred.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975284_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975284-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992123_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992123-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This success encouraged the Knights to resume the siege of the capital, but the locals defended it with success, and asked for reinforcements from Emperor Andronikos II. In a letter of 30 April 1307, preserved in the royal archives of Aragon, some details are given: the Emperor sent eight galleys to aid the city, and the Hospitallers were forced to lift the siege after killing 80 Greeks and losing about a dozen of their own and about 40 horses.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992123–124,_126_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992123–124,_126-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992123_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992123-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At about the same time, in March or April 1307, according to Pachymeres, the Hospitallers sent envoys to the Emperor, demanding that he hand over the city of Rhodes to them, so that they would make it their base in their war against the Turks. The Knights promised to recognise the suzerainty of the emperor and send him 300 of their best warriors whenever he demanded, but Andronikos II rejected their proposal, and began preparing further reinforcements to Rhodes to repel any attempt to capture it.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975284_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975284-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992114–118_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992114–118-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In spring 1307, Pope <a href="/wiki/Clement_V" class="mw-redirect" title="Clement V">Clement V</a> invited Villaret to visit the Papal court at <a href="/wiki/Poitiers" title="Poitiers">Poitiers</a>, but the latter was delayed until August due to the ongoing conquest of Rhodes, which he was leading in person. The fact that Villaret felt able to leave the island in summer points to the conclusion that by that time, most of it, apart from the capital was in Hospitaller hands.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992119_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992119-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 5 September 1307, the Pope issued an act confirming the Hospitallers' possession of the island of Rhodes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992127_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992127-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975285_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975285-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, a document from the Aragonese archives, dated to October 1307, indicates that while <a href="/wiki/Lindos" title="Lindos">Lindos</a> was in Hospitaller hands, the city of Rhodes was guarded by "twenty vessels of the emperor of Constantinople",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975284_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975284-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992126–127_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992126–127-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a letter by King <a href="/wiki/James_II_of_Aragon" title="James II of Aragon">James II of Aragon</a> confirms that in March 1309, the Hospitallers still did not control the entire island.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992126_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992126-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Villaret continued his close relations with the Genoese, who were not only expert sailors and shipbuilders, but also familiar with the Aegean and, just like the Hospitallers, rivals to the Venetians; thus in 1308–1309 Villaret placed contracts for twelve galleys and a <i>navis magna</i> in Genoese shipyards.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarr201567_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarr201567-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Villaret remained in the West for two years, but by September 1309 he was seeking permission to return to the East to oversee the completion of the conquest. He left <a href="/wiki/Genoa" title="Genoa">Genoa</a> for <a href="/wiki/Naples" title="Naples">Naples</a> in November, and arrived at <a href="/wiki/Brindisi" title="Brindisi">Brindisi</a> in January 1310. There, the Hospitallers refused to ship any member of the massive, disorderly mob constituting the <a href="/wiki/Crusade_of_the_Poor" title="Crusade of the Poor">Crusade of the Poor</a>, who all desired to take part in an unauthorised crusade to the Holy Land. Villaret's fleet reportedly numbered 26 galleys, including Genoese ships, carrying a force of 200–300 Knights and 3,000 foot soldiers, but the bad weather delayed their departure until spring.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975285_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975285-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992119_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992119-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ostensible aim of this expedition was to assist Cyprus and the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Kingdom_of_Cilicia" title="Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia">Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia</a>, but Villaret, again most likely without the knowledge of the Pope, used it to finish his conquest of Rhodes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarr201567_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarr201567-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The city of Rhodes was finally captured on 15 August 1310, according to both the biographies of Clement V and the reports of Christopher of Cyprus. The latter reports that the Hospitallers had amassed 35 galleys for the operation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992119–121_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992119–121-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the three Cypriot chronicles, however, the city was not captured by force, but through a stroke of luck: a Genoese ship sent by the Emperor with victuals for the besieged garrison was blown off course to <a href="/wiki/Famagusta" title="Famagusta">Famagusta</a> on Cyprus. The ship captain was captured by a Cypriot knight, Peter the Younger (Pierre le Jaune, Piero il Giovene), who brought him to Rhodes before the Grand Master. To escape execution, the ship captain convinced the garrison to surrender on the condition that their lives and property would be spared.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975284_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975284-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992122–124_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992122–124-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dating_controversy">Dating controversy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hospitaller_conquest_of_Rhodes&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Dating controversy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The chronology of the conquest was for long accepted to have been in two stages, with the first landing and conquest of the island in 1306 and the final capture of the city of Rhodes in 1310.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992128_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992128-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the French scholar <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Delaville_Le_Roulx" title="Joseph Delaville Le Roulx">Joseph Delaville Le Roulx</a>, in his magisterial <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cartulaire_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9ral_de_l%27Ordre_des_Hospitaliers_de_Saint-Jean_de_J%C3%A9rusalem_(1100%E2%80%931310)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cartulaire général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem (1100–1310) (page does not exist)">Cartulaire général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem (1100–1310)</a></i>, relying on the account of Pachymeres (which he places in April 1308) and the reports of a two-year siege in the Cypriot chronicles, concluded that the date of the capture of the city of Rhodes was 15 August 1308, a date which was then used by the majority of scholars dealing with the Crusades and the Knights Hospitaller.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992128–132_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992128–132-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The confusion of the various dates given by the chroniclers has resulted in several proposals on when the capital of Rhodes surrendered: although the date of 15 August, as a <a href="/wiki/Assumption_of_Mary" title="Assumption of Mary">major religious festival</a>, seems secure, the year this took place has varied, with every year from 1306 to 1310 having been suggested by modern scholars.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992130_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992130-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aftermath">Aftermath</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hospitaller_conquest_of_Rhodes&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Hospitaller_Rhodes" title="Hospitaller Rhodes">Hospitaller Rhodes</a></div> <p>Following the completion of the conquest, the Hospitallers moved their convent and hospital from Cyprus to Rhodes. Efforts were made to attract Latin settlers, both to replenish the local population that had dwindled to some 10,000, and to provide men for military service.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975286_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975286-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Order lost no time in beginning military operations in the area: enforcing a papal ban on trade with <a href="/wiki/Mamluk_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Mamluk Egypt">Mamluk Egypt</a>, the Knights did not hesitate to capture even Genoese vessels, although the Genoese had aided the conquest. A brief alliance of the Genoese with the emirate of <a href="/wiki/Menteshe" title="Menteshe">Menteshe</a> followed, but the Hospitallers scored a <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Amorgos_(1312)" title="Battle of Amorgos (1312)">significant victory</a> over the latter in 1312. Tensions rose with Venice at the same time, as the Hospitallers seized Karpathos and other Venetian-controlled islands. Eventually, the Hospitallers reached an agreement with both Italian maritime powers, and the seized islands were returned to Venice in 1316.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975286–287_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975286–287-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarr201567–68_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarr201567–68-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Grand_preceptor" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand preceptor">grand preceptor</a> <a href="/wiki/Albert_of_Schwarzburg" title="Albert of Schwarzburg">Albert of Schwarzburg</a> led the Hospitaller navy to victories against the Turks in 1318, and at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Chios_(1319)" title="Battle of Chios (1319)">Battle of Chios</a> in 1319, after which he recaptured the island of <a href="/wiki/Leros" title="Leros">Leros</a>, whose Greek populace had rebelled and restored Byzantine rule. In the next year, the Hospitallers <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rhodes_(1320)" title="Battle of Rhodes (1320)">defeated</a> a Turkish fleet of eighty vessels, preventing an invasion of Rhodes. With this success, Hospitaller control of the island was secured for the next century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975288–289_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975288–289-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hospitaller_conquest_of_Rhodes&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992114–118-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992114–118_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992114–118_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFailler1992">Failler 1992</a>, pp. 114–118.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992118–119-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992118–119_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFailler1992">Failler 1992</a>, pp. 118–119.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992126–128-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992126–128_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFailler1992">Failler 1992</a>, pp. 126–128.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992121–122-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992121–122_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFailler1992">Failler 1992</a>, pp. 121–122.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975278–280-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975278–280_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLuttrell1975">Luttrell 1975</a>, pp. 278–280.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975280–281-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975280–281_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLuttrell1975">Luttrell 1975</a>, pp. 280–281.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992122-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992122_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFailler1992">Failler 1992</a>, p. 122.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975281-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975281_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLuttrell1975">Luttrell 1975</a>, p. 281.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975282–283-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975282–283_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLuttrell1975">Luttrell 1975</a>, pp. 282–283.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975282-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975282_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLuttrell1975">Luttrell 1975</a>, p. 282.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992122–124-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992122–124_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992122–124_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFailler1992">Failler 1992</a>, pp. 122–124.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECarr201566-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarr201566_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarr201566_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCarr2015">Carr 2015</a>, p. 66.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975283-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975283_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLuttrell1975">Luttrell 1975</a>, p. 283.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975283–284-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975283–284_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLuttrell1975">Luttrell 1975</a>, pp. 283–284.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975284-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975284_15-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975284_15-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975284_15-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975284_15-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLuttrell1975">Luttrell 1975</a>, p. 284.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992123-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992123_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992123_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFailler1992">Failler 1992</a>, p. 123.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992123–124,_126-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992123–124,_126_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFailler1992">Failler 1992</a>, pp. 123–124, 126.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992119-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992119_18-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992119_18-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFailler1992">Failler 1992</a>, p. 119.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992127-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992127_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFailler1992">Failler 1992</a>, p. 127.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975285-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975285_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975285_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLuttrell1975">Luttrell 1975</a>, p. 285.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992126–127-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992126–127_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFailler1992">Failler 1992</a>, pp. 126–127.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992126-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992126_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFailler1992">Failler 1992</a>, p. 126.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECarr201567-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarr201567_23-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarr201567_23-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCarr2015">Carr 2015</a>, p. 67.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992119–121-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992119–121_24-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFailler1992">Failler 1992</a>, pp. 119–121.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992128-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992128_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFailler1992">Failler 1992</a>, p. 128.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992128–132-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992128–132_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFailler1992">Failler 1992</a>, pp. 128–132.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFailler1992130-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFailler1992130_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFailler1992">Failler 1992</a>, p. 130.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975286-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975286_28-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLuttrell1975">Luttrell 1975</a>, p. 286.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975286–287-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975286–287_29-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLuttrell1975">Luttrell 1975</a>, pp. 286–287.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECarr201567–68-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarr201567–68_30-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCarr2015">Carr 2015</a>, pp. 67–68.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975288–289-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuttrell1975288–289_31-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLuttrell1975">Luttrell 1975</a>, pp. 288–289.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources_2">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hospitaller_conquest_of_Rhodes&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output 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Boydell & Brewer. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-843839903" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-843839903"><bdi>978-1-843839903</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Merchant+Crusaders+in+the+Aegean%2C+1291%E2%80%931352&rft.pub=Boydell+%26+Brewer&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=978-1-843839903&rft.aulast=Carr&rft.aufirst=Mike&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DvAU3CwAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHospitaller+conquest+of+Rhodes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFailler1992" class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Failler, Albert (1992). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.persee.fr/doc/rebyz_0766-5598_1992_num_50_1_1854">"L'occupation de Rhodes par les Hospitaliers"</a>. <i>Revue des études byzantines</i> (in French). <b>50</b>: 113–135. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.3406%2Frebyz.1992.1854">10.3406/rebyz.1992.1854</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Revue+des+%C3%A9tudes+byzantines&rft.atitle=L%27occupation+de+Rhodes+par+les+Hospitaliers&rft.volume=50&rft.pages=113-135&rft.date=1992&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.3406%2Frebyz.1992.1854&rft.aulast=Failler&rft.aufirst=Albert&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.persee.fr%2Fdoc%2Frebyz_0766-5598_1992_num_50_1_1854&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHospitaller+conquest+of+Rhodes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLuttrell1975" class="citation book cs1">Luttrell, Anthony (1975). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ALYOXG7V45YSNF9D/pages/ARQAPLJYWHB7UN8Q">"The Hospitallers at Rhodes, 1306–1421"</a>. 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Genoa: Acqui Terme. pp. 737–761. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/606372603">606372603</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Genoese+at+Rhodes%3A+1306%E2%80%931312&rft.btitle=Oriente+e+Occidente+tra+Medioevo+ed+et%C3%A0+moderna%3A+Studi+in+onore+di+Geo+Pistarino&rft.place=Genoa&rft.pages=737-761&rft.pub=Acqui+Terme&rft.date=1997&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F606372603&rft.aulast=Luttrell&rft.aufirst=Anthony&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHospitaller+conquest+of+Rhodes" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <p><br /> </p> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><style 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href="/wiki/Sovereignty" title="Sovereignty">sovereign subject</a> of <a href="/wiki/International_law" title="International law">international law</a>, founded in 1099 in <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>, <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Vexillum_Regni_Hierosolymae.svg/23px-Vexillum_Regni_Hierosolymae.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Vexillum_Regni_Hierosolymae.svg/35px-Vexillum_Regni_Hierosolymae.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Vexillum_Regni_Hierosolymae.svg/45px-Vexillum_Regni_Hierosolymae.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="341" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Jerusalem" title="Kingdom of Jerusalem">Kingdom of Jerusalem</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Organisation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_grand_masters_of_the_Knights_Hospitaller" title="List of grand masters of the Knights Hospitaller">Grand Master</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta#Governance" title="Sovereign Military Order of Malta">Governance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sovereign_Council_of_the_Order_of_Malta" title="Sovereign Council of the Order of Malta">Sovereign Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chapter_General_of_the_Order_of_Malta" title="Chapter General of the Order of Malta">Chapter General</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priory" title="Priory">Grand Priories</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bailiwick" title="Bailiwick">Bailiwicks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Commanderies_of_the_Order_of_Saint_John" title="Commanderies of the Order of Saint John">Commanderies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Professional_association" title="Professional association">Associations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Langue_(Knights_Hospitaller)" title="Langue (Knights Hospitaller)">Langues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_the_Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta" title="Foreign relations of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta">Foreign relations</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_of_the_Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta" title="List of diplomatic missions of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta">Diplomatic missions of</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_to_the_Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta" title="List of diplomatic missions to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta">Diplomatic missions to</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Sovereign Military Order of Malta–European Union relations">European Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_permanent_observers_of_the_Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta_to_the_United_Nations" title="List of permanent observers of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to the United Nations">United Nations</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Auxiliaries" title="Auxiliaries">Auxiliaries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Croix-de-Malte.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Croix-de-Malte.svg/15px-Croix-de-Malte.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Croix-de-Malte.svg/23px-Croix-de-Malte.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Croix-de-Malte.svg/30px-Croix-de-Malte.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="660" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Malteser_International" title="Malteser International">Malteser International</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Malta_Ambulance_Corps" title="Order of Malta Ambulance Corps">Order of Malta Ambulance Corps</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cross_Hospitalier.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Cross_Hospitalier.svg/15px-Cross_Hospitalier.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Cross_Hospitalier.svg/23px-Cross_Hospitalier.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Cross_Hospitalier.svg/30px-Cross_Hospitalier.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta#Military_Corps" title="Sovereign Military Order of Malta">Military Corps</a>: <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Roundel_of_SMOM.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Roundel_of_SMOM.svg/15px-Roundel_of_SMOM.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Roundel_of_SMOM.svg/23px-Roundel_of_SMOM.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Roundel_of_SMOM.svg/30px-Roundel_of_SMOM.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta#Air_force" title="Sovereign Military Order of Malta">Air Force</a> <i>(Historically: <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Naval_Flags_Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Naval_Flags_Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta.jpg/15px-Naval_Flags_Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta.jpg" decoding="async" width="15" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Naval_Flags_Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta.jpg/23px-Naval_Flags_Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Naval_Flags_Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta.jpg/30px-Naval_Flags_Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta.jpg 2x" data-file-width="9000" data-file-height="6300" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Navy_of_the_Order_of_Saint_John" title="Navy of the Order of Saint John">Navy</a>)</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_line_of_the_Order_of_Saint_John" title="List of ships of the line of the Order of Saint John">Ships of the line</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Society and culture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maltese_cross" title="Maltese cross">Maltese cross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flag_and_coat_of_arms_of_the_Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta" title="Flag and coat of arms of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta">Flag and coat of arms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ave_Crux_Alba" title="Ave Crux Alba">Anthem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orders,_decorations,_and_medals_of_the_Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta" title="Orders, decorations, and medals of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta">Orders, decorations, and medals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta_passport" title="Sovereign Military Order of Malta passport">Passports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maltese_scudo" title="Maltese scudo">Currency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta" title="Postage stamps and postal history of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta">Postal system</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Knights_Hospitaller" title="Knights Hospitaller">History</a>,<br />including<br />major<br /><a href="/wiki/List_of_Knights_Hospitaller_sites" title="List of Knights Hospitaller sites">sites</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Commanderies_of_the_Order_of_Saint_John" title="Commanderies of the Order of Saint John">commanderies</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Category:Castles_and_fortifications_of_the_Knights_Hospitaller" title="Category:Castles and fortifications of the Knights Hospitaller">premises</a>,<br />and <a href="/wiki/Category:Battles_involving_the_Knights_Hospitaller" title="Category:Battles involving the Knights Hospitaller">battles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta" title="Sovereign Military Order of Malta"><img alt="Sovereign Military Order of Malta" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Palazzo_Malta" title="Palazzo Malta">Palazzo Malta</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Seat_of_government" title="Seat of government">capital</a></i>) (1869)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta" title="Sovereign Military Order of Malta"><img alt="Sovereign Military Order of Malta" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Villa_del_Priorato_di_Malta" title="Villa del Priorato di Malta">Villa del Priorato di Malta</a> (1869)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hospitaller_Malta" title="Hospitaller Malta">Malta</a><br /></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Fortifications_of_Malta" title="Fortifications of Malta">Fortifications</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fortifications_of_Birgu" title="Fortifications of Birgu">Birgu</a> (<span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta" title="Sovereign Military Order of Malta"><img alt="Sovereign Military Order of Malta" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Order_of_St._John_%28various%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Fort_St._Angelo" title="Fort St. Angelo">Fort St Angelo</a> (2001))</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fortifications_of_Senglea" title="Fortifications of Senglea">Senglea</a> (<a href="/wiki/Fort_Saint_Michael" title="Fort Saint Michael">Fort St Michael</a>)<span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_*"><b><a href="#ref_*">^</a></b></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fortifications_of_Mdina" title="Fortifications of Mdina">Mdina</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO"><img alt="UNESCO" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Flag_of_UNESCO.svg/23px-Flag_of_UNESCO.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Flag_of_UNESCO.svg/35px-Flag_of_UNESCO.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Flag_of_UNESCO.svg/45px-Flag_of_UNESCO.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Fortifications_of_Valletta" title="Fortifications of Valletta">Valletta</a> (<a href="/wiki/Fort_Saint_Elmo" title="Fort Saint Elmo">Fort St Elmo</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cittadella_(Gozo)" title="Cittadella (Gozo)">Cittadella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Floriana_Lines" title="Floriana Lines">Floriana Lines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Margherita_Lines" title="Santa Margherita Lines">Santa Margherita Lines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cottonera_Lines" title="Cottonera Lines">Cottonera Lines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Ricasoli" title="Fort Ricasoli">Fort Ricasoli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Manoel" title="Fort Manoel">Fort Manoel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Chambray" title="Fort Chambray">Fort Chambray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Tign%C3%A9" title="Fort Tigné">Fort Tigné</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_fortifications_in_Malta" title="List of fortifications in Malta">others</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Palace" title="Palace">Palaces</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grandmaster%27s_Palace_(Valletta)" class="mw-redirect" title="Grandmaster's Palace (Valletta)">Grand Master's Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vilhena_Palace" title="Vilhena Palace">Vilhena Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verdala_Palace" title="Verdala Palace">Verdala Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Anton_Palace" title="San Anton Palace">San Anton Palace</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Church_(building)" title="Church (building)">Churches</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saint_John%27s_Co-Cathedral" title="Saint John's Co-Cathedral">St John (Conventual Church)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_of_Liesse" title="Church of Our Lady of Liesse">Our Lady of Liesse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_of_Pilar,_Valletta" title="Church of Our Lady of Pilar, Valletta">Our Lady of Pilar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_of_Victory_(Valletta)" title="Church of Our Lady of Victory (Valletta)">Our Lady of Victory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Saint_Barbara,_Valletta" title="Church of Saint Barbara, Valletta">St Barbara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Saint_Catherine_of_Italy,_Valletta" title="Church of Saint Catherine of Italy, Valletta">St Catherine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collegiate_Church_of_Saint_Lawrence,_Vittoriosa" title="Collegiate Church of Saint Lawrence, Vittoriosa">St Lawrence</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Auberges</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Birgu" title="Birgu">Birgu</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Auberge_d%27Allemagne,_Birgu" title="Auberge d'Allemagne, Birgu">Allemagne</a><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_*"><b><a href="#ref_*">^</a></b></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auberge_d%27Angleterre" title="Auberge d'Angleterre">Angleterre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auberge_d%27Aragon,_Birgu" title="Auberge d'Aragon, Birgu">Aragon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auberge_d%27Auvergne_et_Provence" title="Auberge d'Auvergne et Provence">Auvergne et Provence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auberge_de_Castille_et_Portugal" title="Auberge de Castille et Portugal">Castille et Portugal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auberge_de_France,_Birgu" title="Auberge de France, Birgu">France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auberge_d%27Italie,_Birgu" title="Auberge d'Italie, Birgu">Italie</a><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_*"><b><a href="#ref_*">^</a></b></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Valletta" title="Valletta">Valletta</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Auberge_d%27Allemagne" title="Auberge d'Allemagne">Allemagne</a><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_*"><b><a href="#ref_*">^</a></b></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auberge_d%27Aragon" title="Auberge d'Aragon">Aragon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auberge_d%27Auvergne" title="Auberge d'Auvergne">Auvergne</a><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_*"><b><a href="#ref_*">^</a></b></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auberge_de_Bavi%C3%A8re" title="Auberge de Bavière">Bavière</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auberge_de_Castille" title="Auberge de Castille">Castille</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auberge_de_France" title="Auberge de France">France</a><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_*"><b><a href="#ref_*">^</a></b></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auberge_d%27Italie" title="Auberge d'Italie">Italie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auberge_de_Provence" title="Auberge de Provence">Provence</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hospitaller_Rhodes" title="Hospitaller Rhodes">Rhodes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fortifications_of_Rhodes" title="Fortifications of Rhodes">Fortifications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palace_of_the_Grand_Master_of_the_Knights_of_Rhodes" title="Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes">Palace of the Grand Master</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a></i>: <a href="/wiki/Bodrum_Castle" title="Bodrum Castle">Bodrum Castle</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Holy_Land" title="Holy Land">Holy Land</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acre,_Israel" title="Acre, Israel">Saint John d'Acre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arqa" title="Arqa">Arqa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benedictine_monastery_in_Abu_Ghosh" title="Benedictine monastery in Abu Ghosh">Abu Ghosh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belvoir_Fortress" class="mw-redirect" title="Belvoir Fortress">Belvoir Fortress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chastel_Rouge" title="Chastel Rouge">Chastel Rouge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Saint_John_the_Baptist,_Ein_Karem,_Jerusalem" class="mw-redirect" title="Church of Saint John the Baptist, Ein Karem, Jerusalem">Church of Saint John the Baptist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Saint_Mary_of_the_Germans" title="Church of Saint Mary of the Germans">Church of Saint Mary of the Germans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coliath" title="Coliath">Coliath</a><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_*"><b><a href="#ref_*">^</a></b></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gibelacar" title="Gibelacar">Gibelacar</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO"><img alt="UNESCO" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Flag_of_UNESCO.svg/23px-Flag_of_UNESCO.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Flag_of_UNESCO.svg/35px-Flag_of_UNESCO.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Flag_of_UNESCO.svg/45px-Flag_of_UNESCO.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Krak_des_Chevaliers" title="Krak des Chevaliers">Krak des Chevaliers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margat" title="Margat">Margat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Tabor" title="Mount Tabor">Mount Tabor</a><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_*"><b><a href="#ref_*">^</a></b></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hospitaller_Tripoli" title="Hospitaller Tripoli">Tripoli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Heitersheim" title="Principality of Heitersheim">Principality of Heitersheim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hospitaller_colonization_of_the_Americas" title="Hospitaller colonization of the Americas">Colonization of the Americas</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Military_history" title="Military history">Military<br />history</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Crusades" title="Crusades">Crusades</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Crusade" title="First Crusade">1st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Crusade" title="Second Crusade">2nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Crusade" title="Third Crusade">3rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Crusade" title="Fourth Crusade">4th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fifth_Crusade" title="Fifth Crusade">5th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sixth_Crusade" title="Sixth Crusade">6th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seventh_Crusade" title="Seventh Crusade">7th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eighth_Crusade" title="Eighth Crusade">8th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Edward%27s_crusade" title="Lord Edward's crusade">9th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Battles_involving_the_Knights_Hospitaller" title="Category:Battles involving the Knights Hospitaller">Battles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(1187)" title="Siege of Jerusalem (1187)">Siege of Jerusalem (1187)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Arsuf" title="Battle of Arsuf">Battle of Arsuf (1191)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Acre_(1291)" title="Siege of Acre (1291)">Siege of Acre (1291)</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Conquest of Rhodes (1306–1310)</a></li> <li>Sieges of Rhodes <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Rhodes_(1444)" title="Siege of Rhodes (1444)">1444</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Rhodes_(1480)" title="Siege of Rhodes (1480)">1480</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Rhodes_(1522)" title="Siege of Rhodes (1522)">1522</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Gozo_(1551)" title="Invasion of Gozo (1551)">Invasion of Gozo (1551)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Tripoli_(1551)" title="Siege of Tripoli (1551)">Siege of Tripoli (1551)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Malta" title="Great Siege of Malta">Great Siege of Malta (1565)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto" title="Battle of Lepanto">Battle of Lepanto (1571)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_%C5%BBejtun" title="Raid on Żejtun">Raid on Żejtun (1614)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Damietta_(1732)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Battle of Damietta (1732) (page does not exist)">Battle of Damietta (1732)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_invasion_of_Malta" title="French invasion of Malta">Loss of Malta (1798)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">History</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Crusade" title="Fourth Crusade">Fourth Crusade</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(1203)" title="Siege of Constantinople (1203)">Constantinople 1203</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople_(1204)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sack of Constantinople (1204)">Constantinople 1204</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Partitio_terrarum_imperii_Romaniae" title="Partitio terrarum imperii Romaniae">Partitio Romaniae</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Olive_Grove_of_Kountouras" title="Battle of the Olive Grove of Kountouras">Kountouras Grove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Nymphaeum_(1214)" title="Treaty of Nymphaeum (1214)">Treaty of Nymphaeum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(1235)" title="Siege of Constantinople (1235)">Constantinople 1235</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genoese_occupation_of_Rhodes" title="Genoese occupation of Rhodes">Genoese occupation of Rhodes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Euboeote_Succession" title="War of the Euboeote Succession">War of the Euboeote Succession</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pelagonia" title="Battle of Pelagonia">Pelagonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(1260)" title="Siege of Constantinople (1260)">Constantinople 1260</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reconquest_of_Constantinople" title="Reconquest of Constantinople">Constantinople 1261</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Viterbo" title="Treaty of Viterbo">Treaty of Viterbo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Prinitza" title="Battle of Prinitza">Prinitza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Makryplagi" title="Battle of Makryplagi">Makryplagi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Settepozzi" title="Battle of Settepozzi">Settepozzi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Neopatras" title="Battle of Neopatras">Neopatras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Demetrias" title="Battle of Demetrias">Demetrias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolt_of_Alexios_Kallergis" class="mw-redirect" title="Revolt of Alexios Kallergis">Revolt of Alexios Kallergis</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Hospitaller conquest of Rhodes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Halmyros" title="Battle of Halmyros">Halmyros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Manolada" title="Battle of Manolada">Manolada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Genoese_War_(1348%E2%80%931349)" title="Byzantine–Genoese War (1348–1349)">Byzantine–Genoese War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolt_of_Saint_Titus" title="Revolt of Saint Titus">Revolt of Saint Titus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Echinades_(1427)" title="Battle of the Echinades (1427)">Echinades</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Rhodes_(1444)" title="Siege of Rhodes (1444)">Rhodes 1444</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_of_Sifis_Vlastos" title="Conspiracy of Sifis Vlastos">Vlastos' conspiracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottoman%E2%80%93Venetian_War_(1463%E2%80%931479)" title="Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–1479)">1st Ottoman–Venetian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Rhodes_(1480)" title="Siege of Rhodes (1480)">Rhodes 1480</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottoman%E2%80%93Venetian_War_(1499%E2%80%931503)" title="Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503)">2nd Ottoman–Venetian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Rhodes_(1522)" title="Siege of Rhodes (1522)">Rhodes 1522</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottoman%E2%80%93Venetian_War_(1537%E2%80%931540)" title="Ottoman–Venetian War (1537–1540)">3rd Ottoman–Venetian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottoman%E2%80%93Venetian_War_(1570%E2%80%931573)" title="Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573)">4th Ottoman–Venetian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cretan_War_(1645%E2%80%931669)" title="Cretan War (1645–1669)">5th Ottoman–Venetian War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Candia" title="Siege of Candia">Siege of Candia</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morean_War" title="Morean War">6th Ottoman–Venetian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottoman%E2%80%93Venetian_War_(1714%E2%80%931718)" title="Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–1718)">7th Ottoman–Venetian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_the_Republic_of_Venice" title="Fall of the Republic of Venice">Fall of the Republic of Venice</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Campo_Formio" title="Treaty of Campo Formio">Treaty of Campo Formio</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="6" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Arms_of_Courtenay-Constantinople.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Latin Empire"><img alt="Latin Empire" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Arms_of_Courtenay-Constantinople.svg/50px-Arms_of_Courtenay-Constantinople.svg.png" decoding="async" 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href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_the_Knights_Hospitaller.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Knights hospitaller"><img alt="Knights hospitaller" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Coat_of_arms_of_the_Knights_Hospitaller.svg/50px-Coat_of_arms_of_the_Knights_Hospitaller.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="58" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Coat_of_arms_of_the_Knights_Hospitaller.svg/75px-Coat_of_arms_of_the_Knights_Hospitaller.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Coat_of_arms_of_the_Knights_Hospitaller.svg/100px-Coat_of_arms_of_the_Knights_Hospitaller.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="478" /></a></span><br /><br /> </p> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Republic_of_Genoa_(early).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Republic of Genoa"><img alt="Republic of Genoa" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Coat_of_arms_of_Republic_of_Genoa_%28early%29.svg/50px-Coat_of_arms_of_Republic_of_Genoa_%28early%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="58" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Coat_of_arms_of_Republic_of_Genoa_%28early%29.svg/75px-Coat_of_arms_of_Republic_of_Genoa_%28early%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Coat_of_arms_of_Republic_of_Genoa_%28early%29.svg/100px-Coat_of_arms_of_Republic_of_Genoa_%28early%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="478" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Major centres</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Cities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thessaloniki" title="Thessaloniki">Thessaloniki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glarentza" title="Glarentza">Glarentza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patras" title="Patras">Patras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Islands</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Crete" title="Crete">Crete</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chios" title="Chios">Chios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos">Lesbos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhodes" title="Rhodes">Rhodes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naxos" title="Naxos">Naxos</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">States and territories</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Latin_Empire" title="Latin Empire">Latin Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Thessalonica" title="Kingdom of Thessalonica">Kingdom of Thessalonica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Achaea" title="Principality of Achaea">Principality of Achaea</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barony_of_Akova" title="Barony of Akova">Akova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barony_of_Arcadia" title="Barony of Arcadia">Arcadia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lordship_of_Argos_and_Nauplia" title="Lordship of Argos and Nauplia">Argos and Nauplia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marquisate_of_Bodonitsa" title="Marquisate of Bodonitsa">Bodonitsa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barony_of_Chalandritsa" title="Barony of Chalandritsa">Chalandritsa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barony_of_Estamira" title="Barony of Estamira">Estamira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barony_of_Geraki" title="Barony of Geraki">Geraki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barony_of_Gritzena" title="Barony of Gritzena">Gritzena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barony_of_Kalavryta" title="Barony of Kalavryta">Kalavryta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barony_of_Karytaina" title="Barony of Karytaina">Karytaina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barony_of_Nikli" title="Barony of Nikli">Nikli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barony_of_Passavant" title="Barony of Passavant">Passavant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barony_of_Patras" title="Barony of Patras">Patras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barony_of_Veligosti" title="Barony of Veligosti">Veligosti and Damala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barony_of_Vostitsa" title="Barony of Vostitsa">Vostitsa</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Athens" title="Duchy of Athens">Duchy of Athens</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lordship_of_Salona" title="Lordship of Salona">Salona</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Neopatras" title="Duchy of Neopatras">Duchy of Neopatras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Palatine_of_Cephalonia_and_Zakynthos" title="County Palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos">County Palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lordship_of_Chios" title="Lordship of Chios">Lordship of Chios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maona_of_Chios_and_Phocaea" title="Maona of Chios and Phocaea">Maona of Chios and Phocaea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catalan_Company" title="Catalan Company">Catalan Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navarrese_Company" title="Navarrese Company">Navarrese Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hospitaller_Rhodes" title="Hospitaller Rhodes">Hospitaller Rhodes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triarchy_of_Negroponte" title="Triarchy of Negroponte">Triarchy of Negroponte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_the_Archipelago" title="Duchy of the Archipelago">Duchy of the Archipelago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stato_da_M%C3%A0r" title="Stato da Màr">Stato da Màr</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Venice" title="Republic of Venice">Republic of Venice</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Candia" title="Kingdom of Candia">Crete</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ionian_Islands_under_Venetian_rule" class="mw-redirect" title="Ionian Islands under Venetian rule">Ionian Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Methoni,_Messenia" title="Methoni, Messenia">Modon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Koroni" title="Koroni">Coron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Morea" title="Kingdom of the Morea">Kingdom of the Morea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nafpaktos" title="Nafpaktos">Lepanto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parga" title="Parga">Parga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Preveza" title="Preveza">Preveza</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">People</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Latin_Emperor" title="Latin Emperor">Latin Emperors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Latin_empresses" title="List of Latin empresses">Latin Empresses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_Patriarchate_of_Constantinople" title="Latin Patriarchate of Constantinople">Latin Patriarchate of Constantinople</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Achaea#Princes_of_Achaea" title="Principality of Achaea">Princes of Achaea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Princess_of_Achaea" title="Princess of Achaea">Princesses of Achaea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bailli_of_the_Principality_of_Achaea" title="Bailli of the Principality of Achaea">Baillis of Achaea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_Archbishopric_of_Patras" title="Latin Archbishopric of Patras">Archbishops of Patras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_Archbishopric_of_Corinth" title="Latin Archbishopric of Corinth">Archbishops of Corinth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tocco_family" title="Tocco family">Tocco</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carlo_I_Tocco" title="Carlo I Tocco">Carlo I</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Acciaioli_family" title="Acciaioli family">Acciaioli</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_I_Acciaioli" title="Antonio I Acciaioli">Antonio I</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capetian_House_of_Anjou" title="Capetian House of Anjou">Angevins</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_Anjou" title="Charles I of Anjou">Charles I of Naples</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gattilusi" class="mw-redirect" title="Gattilusi">Gattilusi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pallavicini_family" title="Pallavicini family">Pallavicini family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Villehardouin_family" title="Villehardouin family">Villehardouin family</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_I_of_Villehardouin" title="Geoffrey I of Villehardouin">Geoffrey I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_of_Villehardouin" title="William of Villehardouin">William II</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marco_I_Sanudo" title="Marco I Sanudo">Marco I Sanudo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boniface_I,_Marquess_of_Montferrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Boniface I, Marquess of Montferrat">Boniface I, Marquess of Montferrat</a></li> <li>Knights Hospitaller <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_d%27Aubusson" title="Pierre d'Aubusson">Pierre d'Aubusson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de_Heredia" title="Juan Fernández de Heredia">Juan Fernández de Heredia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippe_Villiers_de_L%27Isle-Adam" title="Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam">Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foulques_de_Villaret" title="Foulques de Villaret">Foulques de Villaret</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_de_Flor" title="Roger de Flor">Roger de Flor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zaccaria" title="Zaccaria">Zaccaria</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benedetto_I_Zaccaria" title="Benedetto I Zaccaria">Benedetto I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martino_Zaccaria" title="Martino Zaccaria">Martino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centurione_II_Zaccaria" title="Centurione II Zaccaria">Centurione II</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Cultural impact</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chronicle_of_the_Morea" title="Chronicle of the Morea">Chronicle of the Morea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chronicle_of_the_Tocco" title="Chronicle of the Tocco">Chronicle of the Tocco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assizes_of_Romania" title="Assizes of Romania">Assizes of Romania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_the_Middle_East" title="Catholic Church in the Middle East">Catholic Church in the Middle East</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Latin_Church_in_the_Middle_East" title="Latin Church in the Middle East">Latin Church in the Middle East</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Latins_(Middle_Ages)" title="Latins (Middle Ages)">Latins</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Greece" title="Catholic Church in Greece">Catholic Church in Greece</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cretan_school" title="Cretan school">Cretan school</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cretan_literature" title="Cretan literature">Cretan literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heptanese_school_(painting)" class="mw-redirect" title="Heptanese school (painting)">Heptanese school (painting)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuisine_of_Greece" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuisine of Greece">Cuisine of Greece</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Monuments</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div 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the Knights of Rhodes">Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Platamon_Castle" title="Platamon Castle">Platamon Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zaraka_Monastery" title="Zaraka Monastery">Zaraka Monastery</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Genoese</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Castle_of_Chios" title="Castle of Chios">Castle of Chios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castle_of_Mytilene" title="Castle of Mytilene">Castle of Mytilene</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Venetian</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arkadi_Monastery" title="Arkadi Monastery">Arkadi Monastery</a></li> <li><a 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