Index

• Alcántara, order of 9, 76
• Ambulance Brigade 45
• Ashmole, Elias 8: Freemasonry 14
  • The Institution, Laws and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter 5, 8–11, 12
• Aubert, René, abbé de Vertot 5

• Baigent, Michael 21
• Batman 28
• Baxter, John 24
• Blackham, Colonel R. J. 45, 48, 53
• Blois, Stephen of 79
• Bolsonaro, Jair 3, 94–96, 97, 98, 104
• Bosio, Giacomo 65
• Bosius, Brother Antonius 9
• Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne de 83
• Bovo, Claudia 91
• Behring Breivik, Anders 28–29
• Brician Knights 9
• Brown, Dan 28, 30 see also Da Vinci Code, The
• Bryce, David 24, 33
• Burn, William 24

• Calatrava, order of 9, 76
• Calderón, Fernando 83
• Cerri, Luis Fernando 91
• Charlemagne 79
• Charles III, order of 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 84
• Charlottesville 28, 92, 93
• Chigidella Rovere Albani, Ludovico 66
• Christ, order of 100–101, 103
• Clement V, pope 6
• Clements, Pamela 92
• Cotoner, Grandmaster Rafael 51
• Crete 13
• Crusades, the: First Crusade 1
  • Fifth Crusade 6

• Daguerre, Jacques-Louis-Mandé 26–27, 30, 37
• Da Vinci Code, The 1, 2, 28, 29, 35 see also Brown, Dan
• Decluys, Prior Pierre 49
• Delendas, Ioannes Ch. 64
• Digby, Kenelm 51
• Docwra, Prior Thomas 46
• Doria, Giovanni Andrea 73
• Dowson, Jim 36–37
• Duncan, Colonel Francis 45

• Elizabeth I of England 44

• Ferguson, Robert 33
• Ferreira, Tito Lívio 100
• Fincham, Henry 45, 47, 48, 49–50
• Francis I of France 79
• Franco-Prussian War 45
• Frederick William IV of Prussia 77
• Freemasonry 2, 14, 25, 37
• Fulcher, patriarch of Jerusalem 6, 10
• Fuller, Thomas 5: The Historie of the Holy Warre 5–8, 11, 12
• Furley, John 45, 53

• Gabriel, Sir Vivian 53
• Game of Thrones 92
• Garter, order of 8
• Gibbon, Edward 12: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 12–13
• Ghikas, Yannis 67
• Golden Fleece, order of 74
• Gómez de la Cortina, José Justo 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84
• Green Man 23, 28
• Griffin, Nick 37
• Guadalupe, orders of 75–80, 84

• Hainaut, Eustace of 79
• Hedenborg, Johannes 66
• Henry II of England 100
• Hillary, Sir William 53
• Holy Sepulchre, order of 10
• Hospitallers, Hospital of St John 1, 2, 4–14, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55–56, 57, 63–69, 74, 80, 103
  • in the Americas 80–81
  • Bailiwick of Brandenburg (Prussian Order of St John; Johanniterorden) 1, 54
  • criticism of 6–7, 10, 12–13, 14
  • Greek historiography of 64–67
  • praise of 5, 7–8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 79
  • reception in modern Greece 67–69
  see also Malta; St John
• Hughes, Thomas 51
• Hume, David 11: The History of England 11–12, 13

• integralism 99
• Ireland 12
• Isabella II of Spain 77, 81
• Iturrigaray y Jáuregui, Vicente de 77–78, 81–82

• Jerusalem 6, 7, 12
  • 64: Church of the Holy Sepulchre 6, 9, 10
  • kingdom of 5, 10
  • patriarch of see Fulcher
  • Venerable Order of St John’s hospital in 54, 57
• Johnson, George Frederick 25
• Jovens e a História project 91

• Kingsley, Charles 51
• Knights Templar Order International 29: online shop 36
  • political activities of 36–37
• Knolle, Richard 8
• Kollias, Elias 65
• Kolossi, Cyprus 52, 57

• Lacan, Jacques 93, 99
• Lacunza, José María 77, 78
• Latinocracy 64, 68
• Lechmere, Edmund 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 51, 53–54, 57
• Lechmere, Lady 53
• Leigh, Richard 21
• Lepanto, Battle of 8, 73–74
• Livonia 7, 9
• London: Charing Cross Hospital 44
  • King’s College Hospital 44
  • St John’s Gate, Clerkenwell 46–49, 51, 53, 54, 57
  • St Paul’s Cathedral 8
• López Rayón, Ignacio 75
• López de Santa-Anna, Antonio 76, 78
• Lux Brasil 96–97, 99, 103, 104

• Mallory, Prior Robert 50
• Malta 1, 2, 3, 4, 7–8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 48, 51, 53, 64, 68, 69
  • Sovereign Military Order of 1, 3, 44, 47, 66, 74, 77, 78, 79, 80–81, 83, 103
• Marlowe, Christopher 4
• Mary I of England 5, 44, 48, 51
• memes 92, 93–96, 99, 102, 104–105
• Mézières, Philippe de 10
• Michaud, Joseph 79
• Micheli y Marquez, Joseph 9
• military orders: depiction in fiction 1–2
  • in early modern British literature 4
  • fictitious orders 9, 11
  • future avenues for research in 3
  • in Mexico 73–84
  • praise of the concept 8–9, 12–13, 14
• Molay, Jacques de 33–35
• Monckton-Arundell, Vere Viscountess Galway 51
• Montesa, order of 9, 73, 74, 76, 81–83
• Munro, Dana Carleton 83

• Nablus, Prior Garnier de 56
• Napoleon Bonaparte 1, 4, 44
• Napoleon III 77
• National Aid Society 45
• Neomedievalism 92–96, 97, 99, 100, 102–105
• Neo-Nazis 36, 97

• Oakley, Dr John 45, 55
• Obregón y de la Barrera, Antonio de 81
• Órdenes Militares Regiment 75
• Ottoman Empire 53, 54, 55
  • 66: English fears of 7–8, 13–14

• Pamphilij, Giuseppe Maria Doria 73
• Papachristodoulou, Christodoulos I. 64
• Paris: Musée Cluny 56, 81, 82
• Partner, Peter 25, 102, 103
• Passion, order of 10
• Peat, Revd Robert 44, 48
• Perellos, Grandmaster Ramon 51
• Pérez, Santiago 74, 78–80
• Perrot, Colonel Sir Herbert 50
• Peter the Hermit 79
• Philip II of Spain 51
• Philip IV of France 6
• Presley, Elvis 26
• Prussia 7, 14

• Queen Victoria 77

• Ramsay, Andrew Michael, Chevalier 25
• Reformation, the 23, 24, 35
• Rhodes 1, 2, 7, 10, 12, 13, 14
  • 53: modern Rhodian memories of Hospitallers 67–69
  • occupation of by Italy 2, 66–67
• Riley-Smith, Jonathan 74, 78
• Robinson, Carol L. 92
• Rome 10, 12, 44
• Rossi, Antonio 73
• Rosslyn Chapel 2, 21–38
  • carvings of 23–24, 29–35
  • history of 21–24
  • pseudohistories about 25–35

• Santiago, order of 8, 73, 76, 81
• São Paulo 101, 102, 103
• Scarborough, earl of, Aldred Frederick George Beresford Lumley 57
• Scott, John Oldrid 47–48
• Scott, Sir George Gilbert 47
• Scott, Walter 48
• Sinclair family 24, 30–31
  • Andrew Sinclair 30, 32
  • pseudohistories about 25, 36
  • Sir William 21–22, 23, 30–32
• Squire, W. Barclay 56
• St Birgitta of Sweden 9
• St Blaise, Knights of 11
• St George 32–33
  • Sir John 57
• St John, feast of; Knights of (19^th century organisation) 46–47
  • collecting of medieval artefacts and sites 47–51, 53–54, 55–57
  • contemporary reactions to 51–52
  • and imperialism 54–55
  • medical care 44–45, 53–55
  • Venerable Order of 2, 43–58
• St John Ambulance Association 2, 43, 48, 52, 53, 55, 57
• St Lazarus, order of 8, 79
• St Louis IX of France 6
• St Saviour of Mount Royal, order of 9
• St Stephen, order of 74
• Stormfront 36
• Strangford, Lady 53
• Suleiman I, Ottoman emperor 7
• Suleiman II, Ottoman emperor 66
• Sword, Brothers of the 9

• Tartars 7
• Templars, Order of the Knighthood of the Temple of Solomon 1, 2, 3, 4, 5–6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 21, 25–29, 32–33, 35, 37, 73, 80, 83
  • appropriation by the far-right 28–29, 35–38, 94–105
  • criticism of 6–7, 10, 11, 12–13, 14
  • pseudohistories about 25–35
  • praise of 11, 14, 79
  see also Knights Templar Order International
• Teutonic Knights, Hospital of St Mary of the Germans of Jerusalem 1, 5, 10, 74
  • appropriation by Nazi Germany 1
  • praise of 8, 14, 79
• Townshend, George 4
• Tradition, Family, Property (TFP) 92, 99, 102, 103
• Trump, Donald J. 28, 92, 93, 104
• Tsirpanles, Zacharias N. 65, 66

• Ulfsparre family 9
• Utz, Richard 92–93, 99

• Vermandois, Hugh of 79
• Vianus, Marcus Antonius 9
• Virgin Mary 33
• Voltaire 83
• Wales 12, 45
  • prince of 43

• Wiseman, Cardinal Nicholas 47
• Woodhouse, F. C. 9
• Woodward, Revd John 44
• Wordsworth, William 26