1250

"Saint Louis delivering the French prisoners to Damietta"

François-Marius Granet

1270: August 25

"Death of Saint Louis"

Ecole française (19e siecle)

1270: August 25

"Death of Saint Louis in front of Tunis, attended by the French princes and the representatives of the emperor Baldwin II of Constantinople, 25 August 1270"

Georges Rouget

1291: May

"Guillaumd de Clermont defends the city of Acre, taken by assult by 160,000 Mameluks of the Sultan of Egypt El-Asrad Khalil, from 5 April to 28 May 1291"

Dominique-Louis Papety

1299

"Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Order of the Temple since 1298, retakes Jerusalem by surprise in 1299"

Claude Jacquand

1310: August 15

"Taking of the Island of Rhodes by the Knights of the order of Hospitallers of Saint-John of Jerusalem, commanded by Grand Master Fulk de Villaret, 15 August 1310"

Eloi Firmin Féron

1310-1319

"Defense of Rhodes by Fulk de Villaret, Grand Master of the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, against an assault by the troops of Sultan Osman I, 1310-1319"

Gustaf Wappers

1310 - 1319

Defense of Rhodes by Fulk de Villaret [detail]

Gustaf Wappers

1310 - 1319

Defense of Rhodes by Fulk de Villaret [detail]

Gustaf Wappers

1310 - 1319

Defense of Rhodes by Fulk de Villaret [detail]

Gustaf Wappers

1323

"Naval battle near Episcopia in the Gulf of Tarento, carried by the galleys of the Knights Hospitallers of Saint-John of Jerusalem, commanded by Lieutenant of the Order Gérard des Pins, against the Ottoman fleet of future Sultan Orhan Gazi, seeking to assault the Island of Rhodes, in 1323"

Auguste Mayer

1323

Naval battle off Episcopia: detail

Auguste Mayer

1344

"Taking of the castle defending the entrance to the port of Smyrna, by the Knights Hospitallers of Saint-John of Jerusalem, commanded by Biandra, Prior of Lombardy, in 1344"

Alexandre-Charles Debacq

1346

"Naval victory off the island of Embro at the entry to the Dardanelles, of Biandra, Prior of Lombardy of the Order of Hospitallers of Saint-John of Jerusalem, over the Ottoman fleet in 1346"

Eugène Lepoittevin

1346

Naval victory off the island of Embro: detail

Eugène Lepoittevin

1347

"The knights of the Order of Saint-John of Jerusalem reestablishing the Christian religion in Armenia, at the order of the king Constantine of Armenia, in 1347"

Henri Delaborde

1402

"Relief of the siege of Constantinople, besieged by Sultan Bayezid, by a French crusader army commanded by Marshall Jean le Meingre (Boucicault), in 1402"

Jean-Pierre Granger

1514

"Chapter-general of the Knights of Saint-John of Jerusalem, convoked at Rhodes by Grand Master Fabrizzio Caretto, to obtain subsidies to resist an expected assault on Rhodes by the Ottoman sultan Suleiman I in 1514"

Claude Jacquand

1530

"Philippe de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, entering into Viterbo to hold there chapter-general of the Order, where the island of Malta, offered to the Order by Emperor Charles V, will be accepted, 23 mars 1530 (44th Grand Master of theHospitallers of Saint-John of Jerusalem, he was driven off the island of Rhodes by Sultan Suleiman II 1 January 1523)

Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay

1530: October 26

"Philippe Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, 44th Grand Master of the Order of Hospitallers of Saint-John of Jerusalem, takes possession of the island of Malta given by Charles V, 26 October 1530"

René Berthon

1565

Relief of the siege of Malta, besieged by the Ottoman general Mustapha, in September 1565 (don García de Toledo, viceroy of Sicily, commands the relief)

Charles Philippe Larivière

"Louis Philippe [King of France 1830-1848], the royal family, and the King Leopold I [of Belgium] visiting the great 'Salle des Croisades' at the Château de Versailles, July 1844"

Prosper Lafaye