Knights Hospitalier

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{{WP-REAL|Knights Hospitaller}}
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{{Faction infobox
|name = Knights Hospitalier
|image = Hospitalier Crest.svg
|hideo = No
|leader = Grand Master
|locations = Poor District, [[Acre]]
|religion = Roman Catholic
|formed = c. 1099
|hidea = No
|notable = [[Garnier de Naplouse]]}}
The '''Knights Hospitalier''', also known as the '''Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta''', the '''Order of St. John''', the '''Knights of the Hospital''', '''The Knights of Malta''' and the '''Chevaliers of Malta''', was one of the {{Wiki|Christianity|Christian}} orders of the [[Third Crusade|Crusades]]. Their emblem was a white cross, often on a black background.

The Knights Hospitalier were founded in the city of [[Jerusalem]] to provide care for poor, sick or injured pilgrims to the [[Kingdom|Holy Land]], but became a much more militaristic organization with the onset of the Crusades.

==Members==
In 1191, the Knights Hospitalier held a significant presence in the Poor District of the recently conquered city of [[Acre]]. The Grand Master of the Hospitalier Order, [[Garnier de Naplouse]], personally oversaw the district's hospital, and it was there that he experimented on his "patients" with varying concoctions of herbs and drugs.

As well as the military aspect of the Order, the Knights Hospitalier continued to function in a more peaceful role. Numerous Hospitalier monks could be found in the city, preaching to and aiding the local population.

==History==
The Knights Hospitalier were one of the several knightly orders founded during the Crusades, and were tasked to provide care for the sick and wounded in the Holy Land.

By 1191, the Knights were led by Garnier de Naplouse, who was secretly a [[Templars|Templar]]. He experimented on his patients to try and replicate the effects of the [[Apple of Eden 2|Apple of Eden]]. He achieved a limited amount of success, though he was assassinated by [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]], which ended his experiments.

By the Renaissance, the Hospitalier base had moved to [[Rhodes]], and the knightly order were responsible for killing the [[Master Assassin]] [[Castor]]. In response, [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]] sent a team of [[Turkish Assassins|Ottoman Assassins]] to burn the Hospitalier compound to the ground.

==Trivia==
*The Knights Hospitalier were the only faction of Crusaders without high-ranking soldiers, aside from informant targets.
*In ''Assassin's Creed'', the armor and uniform of Knights Hospitalier guards armor was strikingly similar to that of the high-ranking Templar crusaders in the Holy Land, with the primary difference being the black and white coloring of the Hospitaliers, as opposed to the red and white of the Templar crusaders.
*In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'', the simulated location of Rhodes in the [[Animi Training Program]] contained a Knights Hospitalier fortress.
*Hospitalier Captains could be seen behind [[Richard I of England|King Richard]] in the crowd when the latter was confronted at [[Arsuf]], and during some of the [[Investigation|investigations]] conducted by Altaïr.
*Like the Templars in Assassin's creed, the real-life Hospitallers still exist, although they no longer serve a military function.

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
AC1 Hospitalier Soldier.png|A Hospitalier soldier
AC1 Hospitalier Sergeant.png|A Hospitalier sergeant
AC1 Hospitalier Captain.png|A Hospitalier captain
</gallery>

==Reference==
*''[[Assassin's Creed]]''
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