CHRONOLOGY OF MALTA.

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NAMESof the

Grand-Masters.

12 .

Alphonso ofPortugal, orPrince ofPortugal.(See Vertot.)

13.

Geofroi leRat.

14.

Guerin deMontaigu.

15.

Bertrand deTexis.

16.

Guerin orGerin.

1202

Place oftheir Birth.

PRINCIPAL EVENTS.

Dates.

Could not possibly have beenelected before 1202, though the ge-nerality of historians make himgrand-master in 1194.

The grand-master abdicated the

same year. 1202

A general chapter held at Margat.

Many of the statutes made at thattime are still existing. After hisabdication, the grand-master retiredinto Portugal . 1202

1202

France.

Vertot erroneously states that theabove-mentioned disputes betweenthe Hospitallers and the Templarstook place in this mastership.

1208

Auvergne,in France.

The Hospitallers possessed at thattime in Christendom 19,000 manors,whilst the Templars had only 9,000.The term manor, or manre, meant thetillage of a plough and two oxen.

Guerin, according to some au-thors, was elected in .

He, together with his knights, per-formed distinguished acts of valour

at the siege of Damietta.

Andrew, king of Hungary, entered

into the Order of Hospitallers .

The grand-master went to Europe,and refused, equally with the Tem-plars, to obey the orders of the em-peror Frederic II., that prince beingexcommunicated.

1206

1218

1222

1228

1230

This grand-master did not livelater than the year 1231; notwith-standing a variety of authors haveadvanced the contrary .

1231

1231

According to a charter of the 26thof October. It was to this prince,and not to his successors, that pope

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Observations.

Baudoin.

Vertot.

( Errors,)

See Matthew Pa-ris, a contem-porary histori-an, in the year1224.

See Baudoin.

(Error.)

See Baudoin.( Error.)

See SebastianPaoli.