THE.

MILITARY RELIGIOUS ORDERS
OF THE MIDDLE AGES.

THE HOSPITALLERS, THE TEMPLARS, THE
TEUTONIC KNIGHTS, AND OTHERS.

WITH AN APPENDIX OF OTHER ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD:
LEGENDARY, HONORARY, AND MODERN.

BY

F. C. WOODHOUSE, M.A.,

RECTOR OF ST. MARY'S, HULME, MANCHESTER,

"Beat your plough-shares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears."

Jon iii. 10.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE TRACT COMMITTEE.

LONDON:

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, CHARING CROSS;

4, ROYAL EXCHANGE; AND 48, PICCADILLY.

NEW YORK: POTT, YOUNG AND CO.

1879.

The Military Religious Orders of the Middle Ages

First Published 1879.

This reprint published 1990 by

The Banton Press

Nelson St, Largs

Scotland.

ISBN: 1 85652 031 5

ALD

CR

4701

W6

1879a

The old order changeth, yielding placo to new,
And God fulfils Himself in many ways,

Lest ono good custom should corrupt the world.”

TENNYSON.