Geoffroy de Duisson

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Geoffroy de Donjon de Duisson
Geoffroy de Duisson
Gothofredus Duissonus
Ieffray Donion
Geoffroy de Donjon

Tenure 1191-c1202² (1192-1194¹)

Nationality French

Birth ?

Death c1202² (1194)

Notes
Account in d'Avity:
In the winter of 1192 Grandmaster d'Aps died in the city of Acre. Fra Geoffroy de Duisson was elected in the same city. After a truce of five years, a pact was made between the Christians who were in the Holy Land and Saladin. For that reason many powerful and noble men from various nations, who had taken the cross, and who had achieved great might and power, returned home, and gave all their possessions to the Order of St John, which helped to strengthen them. On the death of Henry of Champagne, the Hospitallers and Templars, who administered and governed that small part of the Kingdom of Jerusalem which had remained Christian, elected as king of Jerusalem Almaric de Lusignan, who had succeeded to the kingdom of Cyprus in 1194, with the consent of the Partriarch. Shortly after Grandmaster de Duisson died.
(Anno sequenti) qui fuit MCXCII. in hyieme mortuus est magnus Magister Apsensis in urbe Ptolemaide: atque ibidem in ipsius locum electus fuit.
11. Frater Gothofredus Duissonus. Tempore ipsius quinquennales induciae inter Christianos, qui erant in terra sancta et Saladinum pactae fuerunt: ob quam causam multi magnates et viri nobiles diversarum nationum, qui se cruce signarant, et magnas opes ac facultates sibi acquisiverant, domum redierunt, bonis, quae habebant, ordini S. Ioannis datis: quod ipsorum reditus vehementer auxit. Mortuo autem Henrico, Comite Campaniae, Hospitales et Templarii exiguam particulam regni Ierosolymitani, qu. Christianis remanserat, administrarunt et gubernarunt, Hi elegerunt Amaurium Lusignanum, qui in regnum Cypri successerat, regem Ierosolymae, cum consensu Patriarchae, Praesulum et Baronum regni, anno MCXCIV. et paulo post obiit magnus magister Duissonus

Source:
Avity, Pierre d'; Gottfried, Johann Ludwig: Archontologiae Cosmicae, Liber III: Origo Ordinum Militarium, tam Regularium, Dissertatio de Ordine Equitum Melitensum, Frankfurt am Main, 1628
Boisgelin, Louis de: Ancient and Modern Malta, and the History of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem, 3 Volumes bound together. G & J Robinson, London 1804.
Pauli, Sebastiano: Codice diplomatico del sacro militare ordine gerosolimitano, 2 volumes, Salvatore e Giandomenico Marescandoli, Lucca, 1733 (Vol.1) & 1737 (Vol.2)
1. Avity Lib III p.34
2. Boisgelin, Vol. 2 p. xviii-xix.
Pauli, Vol I, p.92
In fact, Geoffroy de Donjon de Duisson must have died after 1201 because he appears on Act of Donation dated 4.5.1201in which a "Cristiana, daughter of Ruggiero di Caisa, having been made a co-sister of the Hospital, donated to the same Hospital, a village called Digegni under confirmation of Roardo, then Lord of Caisas." Codice Diplomatico No 96 reproduced in Pauli's Codice Diplomatico, Vol I, p.92

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Engraving by Antonio F. Lucini of Matteo Perez d'Aleccio's fresco


Tenure	1191-c1202² (1192-1194¹)
Nationality	French

Birth	?
Death	c1202² (1194)
Notes	Account in d'Avity: In the winter of 1192 Grandmaster d'Aps died in the city of Acre. Fra Geoffroy de Duisson was elected in the same city. After a truce of five years, a pact was made between the Christians who were in the Holy Land and Saladin. For that reason many powerful and noble men from various nations, who had taken the cross, and who had achieved great might and power, returned home, and gave all their possessions to the Order of St John, which helped to strengthen them. On the death of Henry of Champagne, the Hospitallers and Templars, who administered and governed that small part of the Kingdom of Jerusalem which had remained Christian, elected as king of Jerusalem Almaric de Lusignan, who had succeeded to the kingdom of Cyprus in 1194, with the consent of the Partriarch. Shortly after Grandmaster de Duisson died. (Anno sequenti) qui fuit MCXCII. in hyieme mortuus est magnus Magister Apsensis in urbe Ptolemaide: atque ibidem in ipsius locum electus fuit. 11. Frater Gothofredus Duissonus. Tempore ipsius quinquennales induciae inter Christianos, qui erant in terra sancta et Saladinum pactae fuerunt: ob quam causam multi magnates et viri nobiles diversarum nationum, qui se cruce signarant, et magnas opes ac facultates sibi acquisiverant, domum redierunt, bonis, quae habebant, ordini S. Ioannis datis: quod ipsorum reditus vehementer auxit. Mortuo autem Henrico, Comite Campaniae, Hospitales et Templarii exiguam particulam regni Ierosolymitani, qu. Christianis remanserat, administrarunt et gubernarunt, Hi elegerunt Amaurium Lusignanum, qui in regnum Cypri successerat, regem Ierosolymae, cum consensu Patriarchae, Praesulum et Baronum regni, anno MCXCIV. et paulo post obiit magnus magister Duissonus Source: Avity, Pierre d'; Gottfried, Johann Ludwig: Archontologiae Cosmicae, Liber III: Origo Ordinum Militarium, tam Regularium, Dissertatio de Ordine Equitum Melitensum, Frankfurt am Main, 1628 Boisgelin, Louis de: Ancient and Modern Malta, and the History of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem, 3 Volumes bound together. G & J Robinson, London 1804. Pauli, Sebastiano: Codice diplomatico del sacro militare ordine gerosolimitano, 2 volumes, Salvatore e Giandomenico Marescandoli, Lucca, 1733 (Vol.1) & 1737 (Vol.2) 1. Avity Lib III p.34 2. Boisgelin, Vol. 2 p. xviii-xix. Pauli, Vol I, p.92 In fact, Geoffroy de Donjon de Duisson must have died after 1201 because he appears on Act of Donation dated 4.5.1201in which a "Cristiana, daughter of Ruggiero di Caisa, having been made a co-sister of the Hospital, donated to the same Hospital, a village called Digegni under confirmation of Roardo, then Lord of Caisas." Codice Diplomatico No 96 reproduced in Pauli's Codice Diplomatico, Vol I, p.92
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