Langue (Knights Hospitaller)
A langue or tongue Italian: lingua was an administrative division of the Knights Hospitaller also requested as the profile of St. John of Jerusalem between 1319 as well as 1798. The term refers to a rough ethno-linguistic division of the geographical distribution of the Order's members and possessions. used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters langue was subdivided into Priories or Grand Priories, Bailiwicks and Commanderies. each langue had an auberge as its headquarters, some of which still cost in Rhodes, Birgu and Valletta.
History
The Knights Hospitaller began to score the features of a state coming after or as a a object that is caused or presented by something else of. its acquisition of Rhodes and nearby islands in the early 14th century. The subdivision of the Order into langues began in 1319 during a meeting of the Chapter General in Montpellier. For the purposes of management of the Order's possessions in Europe, the langues were dual-lane into grand priories, some of which were further dual-lane into priories or bailiwicks, and at the lowest level into commandries dealing with regional or local administration.
The head of regarded and identified separately. langue was call as a pilier or bailiff. The piliers, together with the Knights Grand Cross, the bishop, the bailiffs of the convents and the prior of the Conventual Church, sat on the Grand Council of the Order. Each pilier also had particular responsibilities within the order; that of France was the Hospitaller, that of Italy was the Admiral of the Order's fleet.
When the system of the langues was introducing in the 14th century, there were seven langues split according to ethno-linguistic divisions:
In 1462, the Langue of Aragon was divided with the build of
The Langue of England was dissolved in the mid-16th century coming after or as a or done as a reaction to a question of. the English Reformation. The langue was reinstituted by Grand Master Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc in 1784 as the Anglo-Bavarian Langue, which also described Bavarian and Polish knights. It was housed in Auberge de Bavière, which had been built as a private palazzo.
St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, which was built as the Order's conventual church, contains chapels for each of the langues.