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The First Templar is an action-adventure video game developed by Haemimont Games and published by Kalypso Media for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. It was released on both platforms in May 2011 in Europe and North America.
The Order of Knights Templar was founded around 1119-1120 and it is likely that the Hospitallers were inspired by them to have their own knights. A charter made for a gift to the Hospital of St John in a Christian army on 17 January 1126 recorded that a brother from the Order was present as a witness and that he held a military title.
The next day, Saladin put to death all the Hospitallers and Templars in captivity with the exception of Gerard de Ridefort. Hospitaller knight Nicasius of Sicily, later venerated as a martyr, is said to have been one of Saladin's victims. The king and most of the other captured nobles were taken to Damascus, to be released for ransom.
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Knights Templar; 1118 – 1312 ... the "Order of Malta," inspired by the Knights Hospitaller; ... as well as video games such as Broken Sword, ...
Map of commandries of the Order of Saint John in 1300. The Order of Saint John (Knights of Malta, Knights Hospitaller) was organised in a system of commanderies during the high medieval to early modern periods, to some extent surviving as the organisational structure of the several descended orders that formed after the Reformation.
The Templars also held the Church of Saint Mary of the Germans for a brief period until 1244. The Hospitaller commandery of Saint-Jean-d'Acre , ca. 1130–1187 and 1191–1291; the Hospitallers administered the whole city of Acre from 1229 to its fall in 1291 .
Hospitaller Malta, known in Maltese history as the Knights' Period (Maltese: Żmien il-Kavallieri, [3] [4] lit. ' Time of the Knights ' ), was a de facto state which existed between 1530 and 1798 when the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Gozo were ruled by the Order of St. John of Jerusalem .