Because the knights actually helped fight corsairs?Sometimes I wonder, why nobody annexed Malta. Not even Naples.
Anyways, Malta can become a duchy, but not a Protestant one. And the one who'll rule it will come from an established noble house, not the GM.
Sometimes I wonder, why nobody annexed Malta. Not even Naples.
Too multinational after a while too : a country having tried to annex would have met opposition not only from others (as darthfanta said, Maltese knights were doing something, at least in a first time) but from part of their own nobility as well (noit even going into Maltese holdings on the main lands, many admirals were issued from the order) as various ones. If Convention tried to do that in 1793, and that Napoleon did pulled it off IOTL, it's that they simply couldn't care less.