Hospitaller colonization of the Americas information
Part of a series on
European colonization of the Americas
First wave
Basque
British
Curonian
Danish
Dutch
French
German
Hospitaller
Italian
Norse
Portuguese
Russian
Scottish
Spanish
Swedish
Colonization of Canada
Colonization of the United States
Decolonization
History portal
v
t
e
The Hospitaller colonization of the Americas occurred during a 14-year period in the 17th century in which the Knights Hospitaller of Malta, at the time a vassal state of the Kingdom of Sicily,[1][2] led by the Italian Grand Master Giovanni Paolo Lascaris, possessed four Caribbean islands: Saint Christopher, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy, and Saint Croix.
The Knights' presence in the Caribbean grew out of their order's close relationship with the French nobility and the presence of many members in the Americas as French administrators. The key figure in their brief foray into colonization was Phillippe de Longvilliers de Poincy, who was both a Knight of Malta and governor of the French colonies in the Caribbean. Poincy convinced the Knights to purchase the islands from the bankrupt Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique in 1651 and stayed to govern them until his death in 1660. During this time, the Order acted as proprietor of the islands, while the King of France continued to hold nominal sovereignty; however, Poincy ruled largely independent of them both. In 1665, the Hospitallers sold their rights in the islands to the new French West India Company, bringing their colonial project to an end.
^sanctiones, Siculae (1754). Siculæ sanctiones, per N. Gervasium digestæ atque in unum redactæ. [With] Summa per alphabetum digesta ab A. Tetamo (in Italian).
^Militello, Paolo; Militello, Pietro (2008). Ritratti di città in Sicilia e a Malta: XVI-XVII secolo (in Italian). Officina di Studi Medievali. ISBN 978-88-88615-78-3.
and 30 Related for: Hospitaller colonization of the Americas information
The Curonian colonizationoftheAmericas was performed by the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (now Latvia), which was the second-smallest state to colonise...
The Netherlands began its colonizationoftheAmericas with the establishment of trading posts and plantations, which preceded the much wider known colonization...
During the Age of Discovery, a large scale colonizationoftheAmericas, involving a number of European countries, took place primarily between the late...
France began colonizingtheAmericas in the 16th century and continued into the following centuries as it established a colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere...
Portuguese colonizationoftheAmericas (Portuguese: Colonização portuguesa da América) constituted territories in theAmericas belonging to the Kingdom of Portugal...
Scottish colonizationoftheAmericas comprised a number of failed or abandoned Scottish settlements in North America; a colony at Darien on the Isthmus of Panama;...
the Kingdom of Sicily): HospitallercolonizationoftheAmericas Norway List of possessions of Norway (1920–present) Erik the Red's Land Norway Antarctic...
Basque heritage in some places in theAmericas, the most famous of which being Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Central America, Guatemala and Antioquia, Colombia...
Knights of Malta themselves. Poincy was the key figure in theHospitallercolonizationoftheAmericas. The Knights of Malta bought Saint-Christophe, Saint...
Obygdir History of Greenland Gunnbjörn's skerries History of Nunavut History of Newfoundland Danish-Norwegian colonizationoftheAmericas Leif Erikson Day...
Dutch colonizationoftheAmericas History of Denmark History of Greenland History of Norway Virgin Islands National Park Danish people in Greenland The Fate...
and primarily involved the European colonizationoftheAmericas, though it also included the establishment of European colonies in India and in Maritime...
l'Amérique and later under the Knights of Malta themselves. Poincy was the key figure in theHospitallercolonizationoftheAmericas. On 12 January 1638 Poincy...
Sweden established colonies in theAmericas in the mid-17th century, including the colony of New Sweden (1638–1655) on the Delaware River in what is now...
Hospitaller Malta, officially the Monastic State ofthe Order of Malta,[citation needed] and known within Maltese history as the Knights' Period (Maltese:...
Population figures for the Indigenous peoples oftheAmericas prior to European colonization have been difficult to establish. By the end ofthe 20th century,...
known as the Knights Hospitaller (/ˈhɒspɪtələr/), is a medieval and early modern Catholic military order. It was founded in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem...
ofthe islands is characterized by native Amerindian settlement, European colonization, and the Atlantic slave trade. Before the colonial period, the...
16th to 19th centuries in the period of the Spanish colonizationoftheAmericas. Many hundreds of missions, durable and ephemeral, created by numerous...
The decolonization oftheAmericas occurred over several centuries as most ofthe countries in theAmericas gained their independence from European rule...
primarily of expeditions funded by Spain, England, France, and Portugal. See also the European colonizationoftheAmericas. According to the Sagas of Icelanders...
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta (Italian:...
Global Information
History portal