Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network.

I'm your host, Heather Tesco. I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because I believe

it's a pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the universe, and being more deeply in

touch with our own humanity. Today, we are talking about the Knights Hospitaller and what happened

to them during the Reformation in England.

They are a religious order that has a deep and mysterious history in England.

Before we get started, though, you guys, this is the final reminder I'm going to give you about TudorCon because it's in like two days.

Oh my goodness.

So, yeah, Englandcast.com slash TudorCon online. If you don't know yet,

you've clearly been missing my messages. So, yeah, this weekend, three days of Tudor Immersion,

it's going to be amazing. Englandcast.com slash TudorCon online to get your

streaming ticket and be part of all of the fun. All right. So officially named the sovereign

military hospitaller order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta,

the hospitalers have left an indelible mark on England's past. I'm going to talk about their

history a little bit and then what was going on with them in 16th century England. And also,

a couple of years ago, I want to say it was maybe around

2018, 2017. I did a whole series on what was going on with England and the Ottoman Empire.

And as part of that, I talked about like the siege of Rhodes and the Battle of Lepanto.

And some of these different orders came up.

So if you want to dig deeper into that and you haven't listened to those episodes yet,

you totally should.

Because yeah, I talked about Malta.

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