Grand master (order)
Position inferred title of the position of a secondary Principal Head or Head of an Order, Decoration or Organisation
11 dated entries naming Grand master (order), drawn from 11 separate years between 1118 CE and 1568 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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12th century
- 1118Gualdim Pais, Portuguese knight and Grand Master (died 1195)source
- 1128Honorius II recognizes and confirms the Order of the Knights Templar. The French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux codifies the rule of the Order. Hugues de Payens, French Grand Master of the Order, visits both England and Scotland, where he raises men and money for the Order.source
- 1135Fernando Afonso, Portuguese Grand Master (died 1207)source
- 1147Garnier de Nablus, Syrian Grand Master (died 1192)source
- 1160A large Portuguese offensive begins in the Alentejo region, against the Almoravids. The city of Tomar is founded by Gualdim Pais, Grand Master of the Knights Templar.source
13th century
15th century
- 1414January 7 – After the Battle of Grunwald, the Teutonic Order can’t sustain the warmongering politics of Heinrich von Plauen and thus Michael Küchmesier becomes the 28th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, succeeding Heinrich von Plauen.source
- 1449Jean de la Trémoille, seigneur of Jonvelle, Grand Master and Grand Chamberlain to the dukes of Burgundy John the Fearless and Philip the Good.source
- 1469January 1 – Pope Paul II issues a papal bull establishing the military order of the Knights of Saint George at the request of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, and invests Johann Siebenhirter as the order's first Grand Master.source