{"id":1508,"date":"2017-06-02T16:05:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T14:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/\/history\/les-grands-maitres\/"},"modified":"2020-12-02T11:58:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T10:58:41","slug":"the-grand-masters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/history\/the-grand-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grand Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1100<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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First Grand Master<\/h4>\n

The Blessed Gerard<\/h2>\n

Circa 1040 – 1120<\/p>\n

The founder and first Grand Master of the Order was born around 1040 in Scala, a village a few kilometres from Amalfi in southern Italy. In the second half of the 11th century he went to Jerusalem where he began to work in the hospital next to the church of St. Mary Latin, built by Amalfi merchants to receive pilgrims and tend the sick.<\/p>\n

Legend has it that in 1099, during the Siege of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, Blessed Gerard threw bread to them from the walls but when he was arrested the bread had miraculously turned into stones.<\/p>\n

To build up the institution he ran, Blessed Gerard transformed it into a religious order dedicated to St. John Baptist. On 15 February 1113, Pope Paschal II officially recognised the monastic community of the Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem. The pope\u2019s document gives an indication of the role and importance of the Order\u2019s founder and demonstrates the significance of the service offered to the pilgrims and the poor in the Jerusalem hospital. It also gives a list of its hospitals and hospices in France and Italy, proving that the order established by Blessed Gerard \u2013 a few decades after its foundation \u2013 was not limited to the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem but already had a European dimension.<\/p>\n

Blessed Gerard died in Jerusalem on 3 September 1120. His directions and his example constitutes the basis for the Order\u2019s first written Rule issued by Fra\u2019 Raymond de Puy \u2013 second Grand Master \u2013 between 1145 and 1153.
\nThe Catholic Church considers him blessed and remembers him on 13 October.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Raymond du Puy<\/td>\n1120 \u2013 c. 1158\/60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Auger de Balben<\/td>\nc. 1158\/60 \u2013 1162\/3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Arnaud de Comps<\/td>\n1162 \u2013 1163<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Gilbert de Aissailly<\/td>\n1163 \u2013 c.1169\/70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Gastone de Murols<\/td>\nc. 1170 \u2013 c. 1172<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Joubert de Syrie<\/td>\nc. 1172 \u2013 1177<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Roger de Moulins<\/td>\n1177 \u2013 c. 1187<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Ermengard d\u2019Aps<\/td>\n1188 \u2013 c. 1190<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Garnier de Naplous<\/td>\n1189\/90 \u2013 1192<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Godefroy de Donion<\/td>\n1193 \u2013 1202<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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1048 Jerusalem<\/h2>\n

The birth of the Order of St. John dates back to around 1048. Merchants from the ancient Marine Republic of Amalfi obtained from the Caliph of Egypt the authorisation to build a church, convent and hospital in Jerusalem, to care for pilgrims of any religious faith or race.
\nThe Order of St. John of Jerusalem \u2013 the monastic community which ran the hospital \u2013 became independent under the guidance of its founder, Blessed G\u00e9rard.<\/p>\n

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1200<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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12<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Alfonso of Portugal<\/td>\n1203 \u2013 1206<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Geoffrey Le Rat<\/td>\n1206 \u2013 1207<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Gu\u00e9rin de Montaigu<\/td>\n1207 \u2013 c. 1227\/8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Bertrand de Thexis<\/td>\nc. 1228 \u2013 1231<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\nFra\u2018 Guerin<\/td>\n1236 \u2013 c. 1239\/40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Bertrand de Comps<\/td>\n1239\/40 \u2013 1242<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Pierre de Viellebride<\/td>\n1239\/40 \u2013 1242<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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19<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Guillaume de Chateauneuf<\/td>\n1242 \u2013 1258<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Hugues de Revel<\/td>\n1258 \u2013 1277<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Nicolas de Lorgue<\/td>\n1277 \u2013 1284<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Jean de Villiers<\/td>\n1284\/5 \u2013 c. 1293\/4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Odon de Pins<\/td>\n1294 \u2013 1296<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Guillaume de Villaret<\/td>\n1296 \u2013 1305<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1300<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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25<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Foulques de Villaret<\/td>\n1305 \u2013 1319<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Helion de Villeneuve<\/td>\n1319 \u2013 1346<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Dieudonn\u00e9 de Gozon<\/td>\n1346 \u2013 1353<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Pierre de Corneillan<\/td>\n1353 \u2013 1355<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Roger de Pins<\/td>\n1355 \u2013 1365<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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30<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Raymond Berenger<\/td>\n1365 \u2013 1374<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
31<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Robert de Juliac<\/td>\n1374 \u2013 1376<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
32<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Jean Fernandez de Heredia<\/td>\n1376 \u2013 1396<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
33<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Riccardo Caracciolo<\/td>\n1383 \u2013 1395<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
34<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Philibert de Naillac<\/td>\n1396 \u2013 1421<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1400<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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35<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Antonio Fluvian de Riviere<\/td>\n1421 \u2013 1437<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
36<\/td>\nFra\u2018 Jean de Lastin<\/td>\n1437-1454<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
37<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Jacques de Milly<\/td>\n1454 \u2013 1461<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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38<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Piero Raimondo Zacosta<\/td>\n1461 \u2013 1467<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
39<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Giovanni Battista Orsini<\/td>\n1467 \u2013 1476<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
40<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Pierre d\u2019Aubusson<\/td>\n1476 \u2013 1503<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1500<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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41<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Emery d\u2019Amboise<\/td>\n1503 \u2013 1512<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
42<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Guy de Blanchefort<\/td>\n1512 \u2013 1513<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
43<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Fabrizio del Carretto<\/td>\n1513 \u2013 1521<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
44<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Philippe de Villiers de l\u2019Isle-Adam<\/td>\n1521 \u2013 1534<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
45<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Pierino del Ponte<\/td>\n1534 \u2013 1535<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
46<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Didier de Saint-Jaille<\/td>\n1535 \u2013 1536<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
47<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Jean de Homedes<\/td>\n1536 \u2013 1553<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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48<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Claude de la Sengle<\/td>\n1553 \u2013 1557<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
49<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Jean de La Vallette-Parisot<\/td>\n1557 \u2013 1568<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
50<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Pierre de Monte<\/td>\n1568 \u2013 1572<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
51<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Jean l\u2019Evesque de La Cassi\u00e8re<\/td>\n1572 \u2013 1581<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
52<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Hugues Loubenx de Verdala<\/td>\n1581 \u2013 1595<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
53<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Martin Garzez<\/td>\n1595 \u2013 1601<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1600<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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54<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Alof de Wignacourt<\/td>\n1601 \u2013 1622<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
55<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Luis Mendez de Vasconcellos<\/td>\n1622 \u2013 1623<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
56<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Antoine de Paule<\/td>\n1623 \u2013 1636<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
57<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Jean-Paul de Lascaris-Castellar<\/td>\n1636 \u2013 1657<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
58<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Mart\u00edn de Red\u00edn<\/td>\n1657 \u2013 1660<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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59<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Annet de Clermont-Gessant<\/td>\n1660<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
60<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Raphael Cotoner<\/td>\n1660 \u2013 1663<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
61<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Nicolas Cotoner<\/td>\n1663 \u2013 1680<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
62<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Gregorio Carafa<\/td>\n1680 \u2013 1690<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
63<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Adrien de Wignacourt<\/td>\n1690 \u2013 1697<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
64<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Ramon Perellos y Roccaful<\/td>\n1697 \u2013 1720<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1700<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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65<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Marc\u2019Antonio Zondadari<\/td>\n1720 \u2013 1722<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
66<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Antonio Manoel de Vilhena<\/td>\n1722 \u2013 1736<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
67<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Raymond Despuig<\/td>\n1736 \u2013 1741<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
68<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Manuel Pinto de Fonseca<\/td>\n1741 \u2013 1773<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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69<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Francisco Ximenes de Texada<\/td>\n1773 \u2013 1775<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
70<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc<\/td>\n1775 \u2013 1797<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
71<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim<\/td>\n1797 \u2013 1802<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1800<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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72<\/td>\nEmperor Paul I of Russia<\/td>\n1799 \u2013 1801 (de facto)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
73<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Giovanni Battista Tommasi<\/td>\n1803 \u2013 1805<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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74<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Giovanni Battista Ceschi a Santa Croce<\/td>\n1879 \u2013 1905<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1900<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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75<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Galeazzo von Thun und Hohenstein<\/td>\n1905 \u2013 1931<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
76<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere<\/td>\n1931 \u2013 1951<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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77<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Angelo de Mojana di Cologna<\/td>\n1962 \u2013 1988<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
78<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Andrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie<\/td>\n1988 \u2013 2008<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2000<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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79<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Matthew Festing<\/td>\n2008 \u2013 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
80<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto<\/td>\n2018 \u2013 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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Lieutenants of the Grand Magistry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Innico Maria Guevara-Suardo<\/td>\n1805-1814<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Andr\u00e9 Di Giovanni<\/td>\n1814-1821<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Antoine Busca<\/td>\n1821-1834<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Carlo Candida<\/td>\n1834-1845<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Philippe di Colloredo-Mels<\/td>\n1845-1864<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Alessandro Borgia<\/td>\n1865-1872<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Giovanni Battista Ceschi a Santa Croce<\/td>\n1872-1879<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Antoine Hercolani Fava Simonetti<\/td>\n1951-1955<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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Lieutenants of the Grand Master<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n
1<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Pio Franchi de\u2019 Cavalieri (during 75th Grand Master\u2019s illness)<\/td>\n1929-1931<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Ernesto Patern\u00f2 Castello di Carcaci<\/td>\n1955-1962<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto<\/td>\n2017-2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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4\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0Fra’ Marco Luzzago\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2020<\/p>\n

Lieutenants ad interim<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n
1<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Jean Charles Pallavicini<\/td>\n1988 (jan-apr)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto<\/td>\n2008 (feb-mar)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nFra\u2019 Ludwig Hoffmann von Rumerstein<\/td>\n2017 (jan-apr)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

4<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 Fra\u2019 Ruy Gon\u00e7alo do Valle Peixoto de Villas Boas\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02020 (apr-nov)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1100 First Grand Master The Blessed Gerard Circa 1040 – 1120 The founder and first Grand Master of the Order was born around 1040 in Scala, a village a few kilometres from Amalfi in southern Italy. In the second half of the 11th century he went to Jerusalem where he began to work in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":296,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1508","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5699,"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1508\/revisions\/5699"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}