A member of a military and religious order, consisting of knights (Knights Templars, Knightsor Poor Soldiers of the Temple), chaplains, and…

spec. A member of a religious order, brotherhood, or sisterhood, formed for charitable purposes, esp. for the care of the sick and infirm in…

= Templar, n. 1. Obsolete.

A member of the order of the Knights Hospitallers, based on the island of Rhodes from 1310 until 1522. See Knights Hospitallers at hospitaller, n. 3…

= hospitaller, n. 2 or 3.

A knight or friar of the Teutonic order (Stelliferi Hospitalarii), who bore a red star above a cross.

A member of the order called the Knights of St. John. Obsolete.

An Italian order of chivalry, founded by Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy in 1362.

A member of the military and religious Order of the Knights Sword-bearers, founded in Livonia in the early 13th cent.

A person who bears a sword. One of an order of knights in Poland, founded in 1204: see Port-glaive, n.

A light-armed soldier of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.