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Grand Master (order)

8 dated entries naming Grand Master (order), drawn from 8 separate years between 1128 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

  • 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 (d. 1207)source
  • 1147Garnier de Nablus, Syrian Grand Master (d. 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

  • 1207March 1 – Fernando Afonso, Portuguese Grand Mastersource
  • 1247May 9 – Richard de Bures, French knight and Grand Mastersource

15th century

  • 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

16th century

  • 1568August 21 – Jean Parisot de Valette, 49th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1495)source

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