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The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, [a] and commonly known as the Order of Malta or the Knights of Malta, is a Catholic lay religious order, traditionally of a military, chivalric, and noble nature. [4]
Gotland was offered to the knights by Sweden in 1806, but they refused as they still hoped to reclaim sovereignty over Malta. [11] The Order then settled in its long-held properties in Rome, which were granted extraterritoriality in 1869. In that period it assumed its modern name of Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
Princes and grand masters of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (1 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Sovereign Military Order of Malta" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
The Military Corps of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta (Italian: Corpo speciale volontario ausiliario dell'Esercito Italiano dell'Associazione dei cavalieri italiani del Sovrano militare Ordine di Malta, Corpo Militare EI-SMOM), is a voluntary auxiliary body of the Italian Army for health and humanitarian assistance.
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta is a sovereign entity of international law that does not have its own territory. It is a permanent non-state observer to the United Nations. It maintains diplomatic relations with over 100 countries. [1] Some of these are hosts of Order of Malta Embassies. The Order's non-diplomatic country Associations and ...
The Order has non-diplomatic official relations with five more states: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Canada and the United Kingdom. [1] [3] [4] The Order exchanges ambassadors with the European Union and the State of Palestine. [1] [2] Embassy of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Beginning in the mid-15th century, the grand master would quarter the order's coat of arms with his own. This is a list of grand masters of the Knights Hospitaller, including its continuation as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta after 1798. It also includes unrecognized "anti-grand masters" and lieutenants or stewards during vacancies.