Preceptory
Sovereign Order of St John of Jerusalem
Knights Hospitaller
Royal Black Knights
Antecedents Loyalist Pedigrees
James Sandilands
​The Scottish Presbyterians
King James I
The Scottish Protestant settlers in Ireland
The 16th Earl of Kildare (1643)
Oliver Cromwell
The Whigs
The Orange Confederation or Exeter Association (1686)
Armagh Association (1688)
Aldermen of Skinners Alley (1689)
King William III (1690)
Boyne Societies (1691)
Knights of the Most Glorious Order of the Boyne/Royal Boyne Society (1725)​
Orange and Blew (1733)
Lord Clanbrassil, Knights of the Boyne (1777/1783)
Princes of York & Wales in the Orange and Blew (1788)
​Orange Boys (1791)
The Orange Institution (1795)
The Black Institution (1797)
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​​Every member of the Black Institution first needed to be a member of the Orange Order. The following were Grand Masters from the outset through the 19th century:
William Blacker
Thomas Verner
George Ogle
Mervyn Archdall
Earl O’Neill
Ernest Augustus the Duke of Cumberland (afterwards King of Hanover)
Earl of Roden
Earl of Enniskillen
Earl of Erne
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Besides which there was also:
Frederick the Duke of York (England)
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J. W. Sylvester (Grand Protestant Confederation, England)
Loyalist pedigrees
​​​The Royal Black Men, Knights of Malta, emerged in 1797.
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Joseph Tineman​ (Ireland)
Daniel Maulang & Alfred La Grues
​William Leedom
William Freeman
George Donaldson (Scotland)
Robert Blair
William Dixon
Samuel Robertson
Henry Marshall
Hans Newell
George McLeod
Robert E. A. Land (Canada)
William Buckett (USA)
John J. Sheridan
Arthur T. Lamson
W. A. Hobday
Robert G. Loucks
Robert Formhals
King Peter II of Yugoslavia (Europe/USA)
Gaston Tonna-Barthet (Malta)
Roland Podesta (Australia)
Sir Hubert Opperman
Ian Barnes
Preceptory
Explanation
It would be completely justifiable to infer that Orangemen under the Duke of Cumberland linked to Robert Land who joined the Order in Canada in 1869.
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Robert Formhals reports that the Duke was actually the Imperial head of the Black Men from 1807 to 1836. He also claims that the Black had committed to Giovanni Tommasi of the Order of St John. This makes sense of the statement that the original Black Men met for the purpose of relieving their distressed and oppressed loyal Protestant brethren round the globe, and that their Christian forefathers were explicitly the Knights of Malta. Revolutionary France was a growing threat for Protestants everywhere, besides potential French backing of Catholic rebels in Ireland.
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Formhals was of the view that the Black Men were the only free (and Protestant) form of the Order of St John in the early years of the 19th century.
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Preceptory has a direct descendant of Oliver Cromwell, as well as all the other pedigree connections back to Robert Formhals and King Peter II that are to be found through other members of OSJ groups and the Orthodox OSJ.
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A second direct pedigree exists connecting Preceptory to the Irish Royal Black Preceptory through the former members of it remaining in the Loyal Orange Institution of Victoria.
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BELOW: Flag and blank membership certificates of the Loyal Orange Institution of Victoria.
