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CHRONOLOGY OF MALTA.

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Grand-Masters. ^ «

Place oftheir Birth.

PRINCIPAL EVENTS.

Dates.

Observations.

8 .

Roger de Mou- fromlin. 1173

Normandyin France.

to

1177

pital during the time which passedbetween the sending to the pope, andthe arrival of the bull confirmingthe election of Gastus.

Disputes between the Hospitallersand Templars decided in favour ofthe former by the pope, who insistedthat the Orders should make peaceThe grand-master sent to Europeto solicit assistance against Saladin -The grand-master, and the knightswho accompanied him on the expe-dition, killed by the troops of Assdal,the son of Saladin .

See Brompton,an English his-1179 torian.

1184

1187

9-

Gamier

1187

Naplouse,in Syria,the an-cient Si-chcrn.

Different authors have asserted,that this grand-master was killed atthe battle of Tiberias; but heescaped, and took refuge at As-calon.

According to Baudoin, and manyother writers, he only reigned twomonths : but, in a charter of Guyof Jerusalem, it appears he was stillalive, and grand-master, on the 1stof February, 1191-

Capture of Ascalon the 4th of

September .

Of Jerusalem, the 2d of October...Of St.John d’Acre, the 13th ofJuly, after a siege of two years .

1189

Baudoin.

( Error.)

1187

1187

1191

10 .

Ermangerd orEmengardDaps.

1191

Was grand-master for a very shorttime. Modern authors place hisdeath in .

1192

Vertot.

( Error.)

11 .

Godefroi deDuisson, orGausfred deDoniurn.

1191

The majority of modern historiansassert that he only reigned two years;but there exists a charter whichproves he was grand-master in the

month of May 1201 .

Quarrel between the Hospitallersand Templars, adjudged in favour ofthe former by pope Innocent III. ...

1199

Sebastian Paoli,vol. I. page 98.