Foulques de Villaret

grandmasters

Tenure 1308-1322

Nationality French (Provence)

Langue Greater Provence

Birth ?

Death 15 Sept 1327 (buried at Mompessuli)

Notes

Foulques de Villaret was elected in 1308 but illegally deposed in 1317. The knights in Rhodes elected Maurice de Pagnac as Grandmaster but the election was opposed by the Pope, who appointed Gerard de Pins as Vicar. On the death of de Pagnac in 1322, Villaret was briefly reinstated but the knights continued their opposition by electing Hélion de Villeneuve and Villaret finally abdicated in 1323. He died on 15 Sept 1327.

According to other sources, he abdicated 13 Jun1319.

24. Exstincto …

Matthew Festing

grandmasters

Tenure 11 March 2008 –

Nationality British

Langue Grand Priory of England

Birth 1948/1949

Death
Notes
Blazon    Quarterly: 1 and 4, gu a cross arg; 2 and 3, az an eagle displayed or langued and clawed gu betw 3 towers arranged 2 in chief and 1 in base (Provisional)

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Antonio Fluvian

grandmasters

Tenure 1421-29.10.1437

Nationality Spanish

Langue Spain/Aragon

Birth ?

Death 29.10.1437

Notes

Mortuo suc cessit frater Antonius Fluvianus sive Ripanus, natione Tarraconensis, sub instium mensis Iulii, anno MCDXXI.

Sub ipso coepit conciliumgenerale Basiliense, anno MCDXXXIII. et capitulum generale habitum fuit Rhodi, in quo legati denominati fuerunt, qui nomine Ordinis S. Ioannis Concilio interessent.

Anno MCDXXXV. Sultanus Aegypti victoria clatus, quam in insula Cypro obtinuerat, inducias rupit et magnos apparatus fecit, ut Rhodum obsideret: sed cum intellexisset, magnum Magistrum omnia mecessaria ad sustinendam obsidionem comparasse, ab incepto destitit, et Ordinem missum fecit.

Anno MCDXXXVII. magnus Magisterfun. davit et dotavit sacellum in urbe …

Antoine de Paule

grandmasters

Tenure 10 Mar 1623-9 June 1636

Nationality French

Langue Provence

Birth 1551/52

Death 9 June 1636

Notes

Blazon Quarterly: 1 and 4, gu a cross arg; 2 and 3, arg on a garb or a peacock az, on a chief gu three mullets of the second [S]

Quarterly: 1 and 4, gu a cross arg; 2 and 3, arg on a garb a peacock all or, on a chief gu three mullets of the second [SPS]…

Roger des Moulins

grandmasters

Tenure 1179-1187

Nationality French

Birth

Death 1187 (Killed in battled by the troops of Assdal, son of Saladin)

Notes

d’Avity’s account:

8. Huic suffectus est anno MCLXXIX. frater Rogerius Molinaeus, vir magna prudentia et fortitudine praeditus. Ipsius tempore magna inimicitia et dissensio nata est inter Principem Antiochenum et Patriarcham eiusloci, quam ut compoeret, et p

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Bagration of Mukhrani

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Quarterly per cross or:

  1. Gu in fess a sling shot and harp of David all of the first;
  2. Az  a sceptre crossing a sword in saltire, in chief an orb all of the first;
  3. Az the scales of Themida of the first;
  4. Gu mounted St George slaying a dragon all ppr contourné;

Overall an inescutcheon gu charged with the tunic of Our Lord arg.

The shield surmounted by the royal crown of Georgia and supported by two lions rampant or…

Trubetskoy (Troubetskoy): ΤΡУБЕЦКОЙ

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The Princes Trubetskoy

The family of the Counts Trubetskoy is descended from Gediman, the Great Prince of Lithuania. The genealogy of the Princes of Polotsk and of Lithuania as described in the Barkhatnaia Kniga (Velvet Book) and in other genealogy books, holds that Gediman (or Ediman) was descended from the Grand Prince of Russia Vladimir Sviatoslavich, the Christianiser of Russia, who placed his son, Iziaslav, to rule Polotsk. From him are descended the Princes of Polotsk and of Lithuania. The fourth son of the Grand Prince Gediman of Lithuania, Olgerd, had a second son named Prince Dmitri Trubetskoy, from whom …