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==== Military orders ====
{{details|Military order (religious society)}}

*[[Sovereign Military Order of Malta]] founded to provide military medical services in 1048<ref>{{Cite web |title=Order of Malta - History: 1048 to the present day |url=https://www.orderofmalta.int/history/1048-to-the-present-day/ |website=Order of Malta - History: 1048 to the present day}}</ref>
*[[Order of the Holy Sepulchre]], founded very shortly after the [[First Crusade]] in 1099<ref>{{Cite web |title=Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem |url=https://dioceseofvenice.org/offices/organizations/equestrian-order-of-the-holy-sepulchre-of-jerusalem/ |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=Diocese of Venice |language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[Order of Saint Lazarus]] established to serve and protect lepers on/about 1100<ref>{{Cite web |title=(PDF) The Order of Saint Lazarus - Cartulary: Vol. I - 12th - 14th centuries |url=https://dokumen.tips/documents/the-order-of-saint-lazarus-cartulary-vol-i-12th-14th-centuries.html |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=dokumen.tips |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Knights Templar]], founded 1118, disbanded 1307<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fonnesberg-Schmidt |first=Iben |date=2008 |title=Review of Knighthoods of Christ: Essays on the History of the Crusades and the Knights Templar. Presented to Malcolm Barber |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20108644 |journal=The English Historical Review |volume=123 |issue=503 |pages=1007–1009 |doi=10.1093/ehr/cen218 |jstor=20108644 |issn=0013-8266}}</ref>
*[[Teutonic Knights]], established about 1190,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Nikolaus |title=The chronicle of Prussia: a history of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia, 1190-1331 |date=2021 |publisher=Routledge Taylor & Francis Group |others=Nikolaus |isbn=978-1-032-17986-5 |editor-last=Fischer |editor-first=Mary |edition=First issued in paperback |location=London New York}}</ref> and ruled the [[Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights]] in [[Prussia]] until 1525<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Musiaka |first=Łukasz |date=2014 |title=Teutonic State Order's Cultural Heritage in Towns of Warmia-Masuria Province in Poland |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.17846/gi.2014.18.2.138-146 |journal=Geografické informácie |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=138–146 |doi=10.17846/gi.2014.18.2.138-146 |issn=1337-9453|hdl=11089/12551 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
Other orders were established in the [[Iberian peninsula]], under the influence of the orders in the Holy Land and the Crusader movement of the [[Reconquista]] and generally aligned with geographical area, for example:
{{Main|Spanish military orders}}

*[[Order of Aviz]], established in [[Avis (Portugal)|Avis]] (Portugal) in 1143<ref name="Anderson-2017">{{Cite journal |last1=Anderson |first1=R. Warren |last2=Hull |first2=Brooks B. |date=2017 |title=Religion, Warrior Elites, and Property Rights |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1970260646 |journal=Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion |volume=13 |issue=5 |id={{ProQuest|1970260646}} |via=Proquest}}</ref>
*[[Order of Alcántara]], established in [[Alcántara]] (Spain) in 1156<ref name="Anderson-2017" />
*[[Order of Calatrava]], established in [[Calatrava la Vieja|Calatrava]] (Spain) in 1158<ref name="Anderson-2017" />
*[[Order of Santiago]], established in [[Santiago de Compostela|Santiago]] (Spain) in 1164.<ref name="Anderson-2017" />