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Title: | A Habsburg thalassocracy : Habsburgs and Hospitallers in the early modern Mediterranean, c.1690-1750 |
Other Titles: | The Habsburg Mediterranean, 1500-1800 |
Authors: | Buttigieg, Emanuel |
Keywords: | Knights of Malta -- Mediterranean Region -- 17th century Knights of Malta -- Mediterranean Region -- 18th century Hospitalers -- Mediterranean Region -- History Order of St John -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- 17th century Order of St John -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- 18th century Habsburg, House of Mediterranean Region -- History -- 17th century Mediterranean Region -- History -- 18th century |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
Publisher: | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
Citation: | Buttigieg, E. (2021). A Habsburg thalassocracy : Habsburgs and Hospitallers in the early modern Mediterranean, c.1690-1750. In D. Mcewan & S. Hanß (Eds.), The Habsburg Mediterranean, 1500-1800 (pp. 99-118). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences. |
Abstract: | Relations between Habsburgs and Hospitallers (also referred to as Knights of Malta, the Order of St John and the Johanniterorden in German)1 assumed various forms in various locations and over many centuries. Indeed, it could not be otherwise since branches of the Habsburg dynasty controlled Spain and its related territories which included Sicily and Malta between 1516 and 1700, as well as Austria, the family hereditary lands, and the title of Holy Roman Emperors from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Furthermore, Naples was under direct Austrian Habsburg rule between 1713 and 1733, and Sicily—Malta’s mainland—from 1718 to 1733.2 Hospitallers were present at Emperor Charles V’s (1500–58) triumph in Tunis in 1535; they were also present at Emperor Charles VI’s (1685–1740) failed Danube campaign of 1739.3 For centuries, elite families from Habsburg territories, Iberia, the German lands and central Europe, enrolled their sons into the ranks of the Order. The Habsburg landscape was dotted with Hospitaller properties (commanderies), ranging from the estate of Cizur Menor in Navarre to the Malteserkirche in Vienna. Innumerable Habsburg subjects went through Hospitaller Malta’s harbours. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/87667 |
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