Adrien de Wignacourt
Tenure 24/27 Jul 1690-4 Feb 1697
Nationality French
Langue France
Birth 1618
Death 4 Feb 1697
Notes
Blazon Quarterly: 1 and 4, gu a cross arg; 2 and 3, arg three fleurs-de-lys couped gu [S/V]s…
Tenure 24/27 Jul 1690-4 Feb 1697
Nationality French
Langue France
Birth 1618
Death 4 Feb 1697
Notes
Blazon Quarterly: 1 and 4, gu a cross arg; 2 and 3, arg three fleurs-de-lys couped gu [S/V]s…
Tenure 26 Aug 1534-17 November 1535
Nationality Italian
Langue Italy
Birth 1462
Death 17 November 1535
Notes
Frater Perrinus Pontanus, astensis, natione Italus, XXVI. August. an. MDLIX. Antequam Rhodus a Turcis caperetur, praefectus erat insulae Cariae: qua amissa, inde discessit cum omnibus Equitibus suae praefecturae, et in Cariam concessit: quam cum etiam deserere coactus fuisset, ex ea cum suis Equitibus migravit, et Cretam ad reliquos Equites venit. Postea factus fuit subpraefectus magni Magistri, et missus legatus ad Lautrecum, et creatus praefectus S. Euphemiae inconuentu Niccae. Ibi cum esset, electus fuit in magnum Magistrum loco sui antecessoris, quem deploravit potius quam …
Tenure 1476-1503
Nationality French
Langue Auvergne
Birth ?
Death 3.7.1503
Notes Cardinal.
Ann. MCCCCLXXVI. frater Petrus Albussanus, ex Aruernia ortundus, ubi etiam coenobiarcha erat et praefectus urbis Rhodi, electus fuit isi magnum Magistrum: qui sollenne iuramentum more solito praestuit, se statuta Ordinis obsetuaturum: m sitque legatum Romam, ut Pontificem de sua electione certiorem faceter, et obsequium saum profiteretur. Anno MCCCCLXXVII. totam insulam Rhodum obivit, et magnosfecit app ratusad eam defendendam contra exercitum Turcarum, multosque coenobiarchas, commendatores et Equites citavit, ut ad capitulum generale et defendendam insulam Rhodam convehrent. Idem pacem cum Sultano Aegypti renouavit.
Eodem anno Rex Ludovicus XI. Iubilaeum …
Tenure c.1100-1120
Nationality Italian or French
Birth ?
Death 3 Sep 1118/1120 (Jerusalem)
Biographical Notes
General Notes Founder of the Order
(Free translation of the relevant passage from d’Avity)
When Jerusalem was captured by Godfrey of Bouillon, Gerard was Rector or Master of the Hostel of St John. During the siege of the city, he had been placed in prison by the Muslims who suspected that he had made secret compacts with the Christian besiegers. Once the city was occupied by the Christians, he was liberated after which he governed the Hostel of St John with much care …
Tenure 1503-13.11.1512 Rhodes
Nationality French
Langue France
Birth ?
Death 13.11.1512 Rhodes
Notes
Cum magnus Magister Albussonus moreretur, CCCLXXXVII Equites Rhodi co~gregati erant, qui successorem in ipsius locum elegerunt fratrem Emericum Ambasianum, fratrem Georgii Ambasiani Cardinalis et legati in Gallia, archiepiscopi Rothomagensis, X. Iul. MDIII. Erat nationis Francicae, et magnus coenobiarcha Franciae, cum eligeretur, ibique commorabatur, cum eligeretur. Frater Guidus Blancofortius venit in Galliam, ut magnum Magistrum Rhodum proficiscentem comitaretur.
Anno MDIV. magnus Magister sollennem suum introitum fecit in urbem Rhodum, in eaque magno cum gaudio et applausu exceptus fuit, propterea quod a regibus Galliae et Hispaniae conventui Fratrum commendatus …
Tenure 18 Jan 1741-23 January 1773
Nationality Portuguese
Langue Castile
Birth 1681
Death 23 January 1773 (Valletta, Malta)
Notes
Blazon Quarterly: 1 and 4, gu a cross arg; 2 and 3, arg five crescents gu in saltire.…
Tenure 1202*-1206 Abdicated
Nationality Portuguese
Birth ?
Death 15.3.1207
Notes d’Avity’s account
After the death Grandmaster de Duisson in 1194* Fra Afonso of Portugal was elected. He was a Kinght of the Order of St John and was born into the Portuguese royal family, though it is uncertain.…