Note 362 — LINIERS Y LA RECONQUISTA DE BUENOS AIRES C. O. Bunge (Según P. Groussac)
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Caballero de Malta. In the eleventh century the Knights Hospitalers were established in Jerusalem to furnish shelter to the pilgrims. The order became successively the Knights of St. John, the Knights of Rhodes, and, in 1530, the Knights of Malta, when Charles V ceded that island to them. Now it exists as an honorary order only.