CHRONOLOGY OF MALTA,

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NAMESof the

Grand-Masters.

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Place oftheir Birth.

PRINCIPAL EVENTS.

Dates,

26.

Elion or He-]lion de Ville-neuve.

1319

Provence,in France,

The knights of Rhodes took theCastle of Smyrna in.

The grand-master died

1344

1346]

27.

Deodato deGozon.

1346

Languedoc Those historians are guilty of anin France, error who state that this grand-ma-ster was one of the electors fornaming Villeneuve’s successor, andthat lie gave a vote in favour ofhimself. Pope Clement Vlth’s brief,dated the 18th of June, 1346, attests,that, so far from being anxious toobtain the grand-mastership, he waswith difficulty induced to acceptthat dignity.

The knights went to the assistanceof the king of Armenia, who wasattacked by the Saracens of Egypt,and forced the infidels to restore theplaces they had taken from thatprince.

Gozon demanded permission ofthe pope to abdicate his dignity, butwas refused. The grand-master re-peated his request, which was at lastgranted; but he died, before he re-ceived the intelligence, on the 3d ofDecember .

1347

1353

1353

The history of the dragon slainby this grand-master is a mere fable,and may be ranked among the won-derful exploits of the heroes in Ari-osto and Tasso. There is still some

old tapestry in existence, in which .

this history is represented, togetherwith, some equally romantic deeds of. the archbishop Turpin.

28.

Pierre de Cor-nillan, or de;Corneillan.

1354

Pope Innocent VI. wished to forcethe knights of Rhodes to quit thatisland, and establish themselves onthe continent of Europe.

VOL. II.

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Observations.

Vertot.

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See Vertot.