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Stormcrow135 — A knight hospitaller
Published: 2007-04-03 20:39:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 20382; Favourites: 217; Downloads: 2259
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Done as a digital color study, sample piece.Related content
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AFAIK Hospitallers had white cross on black background during times of Crusades and white on red later. Black on white had Teutons...
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Also, foot soldiers wouldn't have used strapped shields.
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Nice work, but (not to whine - it's a nice work), but the cross is a bit wrong: Hospitallers had white crosses, white the Teutonics had black ones.
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true enough, guess i had a bit of artistic license
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Yeah, iron maiden does rule, and thanks for the comment!
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Finally. Something non-templar. And to think, I had always thought these were Teutonic Kinghts.
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Teutonic knights are very similiar looking, though they became large a bit after the hospitallers, and caimpaigned into livonia and eastern europe.
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Though, both shared the same insignia, until the Hospitaller's went black with a white cross, like the the movie Kingdom of Heaven.
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I included this in a crusades related feature here [link]
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Awesome! Its nice to find a good Hospitaller picture. Fave for sure.
Just curious but shouldn't the cross on the shield have eight points to it and be white?
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Exelent both historical and artistic, which is quite rare. Fav of course
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Thanks, i have to put out some new historical work soon....
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very nice piece. anything that involves these knights of st. john are, as people would say, "teh awesomeness"
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More of a Templar fan, myself, but this is very good. Nice, credible treatment of the chainmail.
Shouldn't the cross be white on a black shield, though? It looks more like that of a Teutonic Knight at the moment.
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yeah, i mixed it up. Artistic license
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Your colour study is a masterpiece itself, mate!
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Impressive! No one does work focusing on the Knights Hospitaller; everyone is too hung up on the Templars. I absolutly love it, great work!
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yeah, the templars are really focused on all the time. the hospitallers are very interesting to me however, thankls for the comment.
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Yes, I'd have to say that the Hospitalers took a back seat in the crusades, although I'm sure they were indeed crucial and had a profound effect on the entire camaigne. I'm not even sure what they stood out for, or any of their history at all really. Any reading, websites or knowlege you can pass on?
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The Knights hospitaller are probably one of the most famous and most noble of the knightly orders in history. They began as a group of monks that cared for the wounded in jeruslaem and the holy land. Men that had diseases, wounded, and the like, were all cared for by the Hopitallers, anf consequently these wounded men were cared for in Hospitals, which is actually where the hospitallers got there name from.
After some time, they developed into a military order very close in organisation to the templars, though they were constantly at odds with there other warrior monk bretheren. After the battle of hattin, and the defeat of most of the power of the christioan kindoms in the holy land, they retreated to the island of Rhodes. From this base of operations, they conducted piracy on the shipping and trading of the now captured holy lands, and the arabs. They endured two invasions, and fought off both successfully. Finally, an invasion forace attak them that outnumbered them over 20-1. Yet after putting up such a fight for the arabs, they were actually let go in honor of there bravery by the sultan.
From Rhodes, they made there home base on the Island of Sicily(Malta, which is where the became the knights Malta), and once the Ottoman empire swelled out in their conquering march, the Hospitallers found themselves fighting the Turks once again. In this invasion, though severly outnumbered, they held off the Turkish advance, and the Seletians came to their aid.
After that, they went through the turmoil of the european revolutions and Naploleon, and were almost put out, but were revived back in Rome in the 1830's. They survive to this day and are recognised by the NATO councel and by international law. They are mostly a charitable and religious order.
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Its sad that whenever anyone thinks about crusader knights, they automatically think of Templars (which Hollywood paints as nothing more than barbaric marauders)
and never look at the heroic and positive aspects of the orders or the good things they did or still continue to do.
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I agree, but in many ways their reputation was well deserved. It was a known fact that the abuse of power do to being one of the only effective standing body of troops in the holy land got them into much trouble. I'm sure their were both heroes and villains in their ranks, like anything else.
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Exactly, im just saying that they ALL shouldn't be judged as bandits.
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