Group
Knights Hospitaller (of Rhodes), Order of the
After the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1291 (Jerusalem itself had fallen in 1187), the Knights Hospitaller had been confined to the County of Tripoli and, when Acre was captured in 1291, the order had sought refuge in the Kingdom of Cyprus.
Finding themselves becoming enmeshed in Cypriot politics, their Master, Guillaume de Villaret, had created a plan of acquiring their own temporal domain, selecting Rhodes to be their new home, part of the East Roman (Byzantine) empire.
His successor, Fulkes de Villaret, executes the plan, and on August 15, 1309, after over two years of campaigning, the island of Rhodes surrenders to the knights.
They also gain control of a number of neighboring islands and the Anatolian port of Halicarnassus and the island of Megiste.
Member Cities
- Amorgós Island Kikladhes Greece Location
- Andravída Messene Greece Location
- Athens > Athínai Attiki Greece Location
- Bodrum Mugla Turkey Location
- Candia > Iráklion Iraklion Greece Location
- Capua Campania Italy Location
- Castelfranco Veneto Veneto Italy Location
- Chios (Khíos) Island Khios Greece Location
- Constantinople Istanbul Turkey Location
- Haarlem Noord-Holland Netherlands Location
- Kos Island Dhodhekanisos Greece Location
- Leros Kalymnos South Aegean Greece Location
- Lindos Dhodhekanisos Greece Location
- Mistra > Mystras Greece Location
- Orléans Centre France Location
- Padua > Padova Veneto Italy Location
- Rhodes (Ródhos) Island Dhodhekanisos Greece Location
- Rhodes > Ródhos Dhodhekanisos Greece Location
- Rozhanovce Kosicky Slovakia Location
- Samarkand Samarkand Uzbekistan Location
- Smyrna > Izmir Izmir Turkey Location
- Vienne Rhone-Alpes France Location