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General => Collector's Corner => Topic started by: reimagination on April 18, 2010, 07:39:17
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I received the Maltese Grand Master in the mail today. He's pretty cool, yet odd. I'm assuming he is the Grand Master of the Knights of Hospitaller. Honestly, I know little about the Knights Hospitaller or Malta. It just seemed unique and "foreign" to me. I mean, you'd never see a Barbie or Lego in Crusades regalia.
So what can you tell me about my new Playmo? Where and when is he from? What's his number? How do you get one (besides eBay).
I really didn't have a super amount of interest in him; like, he wasn't one of my must haves primarily because like I said I know little about the Knights Hospitaller or Malta. But I happened to stumble across him again a few days ago for really cheap (90 cents), and he stayed that low I'm assuming because he was oddly labeled.
He does look nicely between the guitar player and ghost pirate though. Okay, I'm weird.
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we were talking for that on an another topic this is the man right? http://i.ebayimg.com/06/!Bl8wQpQ!Wk~$(KGrHqQH-CwEtrN4QK5UBLd)FzBej!~~_35.JPG he has no number on the box i don't think it had a box and was only available in malta you can see this discussion on"what is this " white cross shirt" topic on the forum ;)
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the link didn't work try this http://www.maltainsideout.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/knight-edit_edited-1.jpg
is this the man?
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Here's the link to the previous discussion:
http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=4322.0
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thank you playmofire for doing it for me as i don't know how to do it :wave:
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thank you playmofire for doing it for me as i don't know how to do it :wave:
Glad to help, playmo1989. :wave:
Here's how you can do it yourself.
1. Find the page you're wanting to link to.
2. Highlight the web address of the page at the top of the browser window.
3. Right click with your mouse and on the menu click Copy.
4. Go to the post you're writing, position the cursor where you want to put the link (it's often best to put the link on a line by itself), right click with your mouse and click on Paste.
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http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=4409.0
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i did it :cham: it was easy the link above doesn't have to do with the theme :-[ thank you playmofire again
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Glad to help again.
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To answer your original question Dereck...
The Knight Hospitaller were a holy order of the Kingdom of Jerusalem durring the time of the Crusades (1095-1291).
I do not know all that much about the Hospitallers as I am more intrested in their brothers the Knights Templar. Unfourtunatly the two orders did not treat eachother like brothers, and often hated each other... (Sometime I don't understand the things people do...)
They grew to be a large order, and quite powerful. The Grand Master was the order's leader.
They were originally created to build and work in hospitals, but they also trained Knights to aid the Crusaders.
That is a rough history of the Hospitallers... or what I know of them.
Hope that was helpful! :wave:
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To answer your original question Dereck...
The Knight Hospitaller were a holy order of the Kingdom of Jerusalem durring the time of the Crusades (1095-1291).
I do not know all that much about the Hospitallers as I am more intrested in their brothers the Knights Templar. Unfourtunatly the two orders did not treat eachother like brothers, and often hated each other... (Sometime I don't understand the things people do...)
They grew to be a large order, and quite powerful. The Grand Master was the order's leader.
They were originally created to build and work in hospitals, but they also trained Knights to aid the Crusaders.
That is a rough history of the Hospitallers... or what I know of them.
Hope that was helpful! :wave:
The Knoghs of St John or Knights Hospitallers were originally created to provide protection for pilgrims going to Jerusalem by escorting them. From this grew the practice of the Knights providing hospitality in the form of overnight rest places, safer and better than the local inns. This is where the Hospitallers title came from. Over time, they also provided medical treatment at the stopover points and, eventually, quite sophisticated medical and surgical treatment, both on and around the battlefield and elsewhere. The old Knights Hospitaller Hospital in Valetta, Malta, is very impressive and has the largest mediaeval arched roof in Europe. They were also fiercesome fighting knights, too, and became very powerful politicially in mediaeval Europe.
Their official website (the order still exists but not with its original functions of course) is here:
http://www.knightshospitallers.com/history.htm