XXIV

CHRONOLOGY OF MALTA.

NAMESof the

Grand-Masters.

When

elected.

Place oftheir Birth. ■

PRINCIPAL EVENTS.

Dates.

Observations.

25.

Foulques deVillaret.

1307

Languedocin France.

He was assisted in his enterpriseby a crusade, which he obtainedfrom pope Clement V.

The Order of Knights Templars

1312

The greatest part of their posses-sions became the property of theOrder of Hospitallers.

Othman, sultan of the Turks, be-sieged Rhodes. Amadeus, count ofSavoy, compelled him to retreatfrom before the place.

The knights, assembled in a chap-ter, deposed the grand-master, andnamed Maurice de Pagnac in hisplace.

Villaret appealed to the court ofRome. The pope appointed Gerardde Pins vicar-general of the Order,until such time as sentence should bepassed. Villaret gave in his resigna-

1315

1319

1327

and not in 1321, as is asserted byseveral authors. The pope bestow-ed on him the priory of Capone;after which he returned to Langue-doc, and remained with his sister till

his death, which took place in.

His body was interred in St. John’schurch, at Montpellier.

Vertot. (Error.)Baudoin. (Error)

26 .

Elion or He-lion de Ville-neuve.

1319

Provence,in France.

Was chosen grand-master whilst atthe court of pope John XXII. Thebrief which notified to him his elec-tion is still in existence.

He held a chapter at Montpel-lier, in which he divided the bodyof the Order into languages. Beingafterwards in France, he commandedthe third French battalion, togetherwith the Sieur de Beaujeu, at thebattle of Mount Cassel, on the 23dor 24th of August .

1328