Hospitaller Malta, officially the Monastic State of the Order of Malta, and known within Maltese history as the Knights' Period, was a polity which existed between 1530 and 1798 when the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Gozo were ruled by the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. It was formally a vassal state of the Kingdom of Sicily, and it came into being when Emperor Charles V granted the islands as well as the city of Tripoli in modern Libya to the Order, following the latter's loss of Rhodes in 1522. Hospitaller Tripoli was lost to the Ottoman Empire in 1551, but an Ottoman attempt to take Malta in 1565 failed.
(1464 – 21 August 1534)
(26 August 1462 – 17 November 1535)
(died 26 September 1536)
(c. 1477 – 6 September 1553)
(1494 – 18 August 1557)
(c. 4 February 1495 – 21 August 1568)
(1499 − 26 January 1572)
(1502 – 21 December 1581)
(1525 or 1528 – November 1581)
(13 April 1531 – 4 May 1595)
(1526 − 7 February 1601)
(1547 – 14 September 1622)
(c. 1542 – March 7, 1623)
(c. 1551 – 9 June 1636)
(28 June 1560 – 14 August 1657)
(1579 – 6 February 1660)
(1587 – 2 June 1660)
(1601 – 20 October 1663)
(1608 – 29 April 1680)
(17 March 1615 – 21 July 1690)
(1618 – 4 February 1697)
(1637 – 10 January 1720)
(26 November 1658 − 16 June 1722)
(28 May 1663 – 10 December 1736)
(1670 – 15 January 1741)
(24 May 1681 – 23 January 1773)
(13 October 1703 − 9 November 1775)
(18 April 1725 – 14 July 1797)
(9 November 1744 – 12 May 1805)
The French invasion of Malta was the successful invasion of the islands of Malta and Gozo, then ruled by the Order of St. John, by the French First Republic led by Napoleon Bonaparte in June 1798 as part of the Mediterranean campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars.