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cessor, Sir Hugh de Revel, reigning in theAutumn of 1259. 1 So an authority most estimable 2thinks (as he has full right) that it was in thespring of that year Chateauneuf died. Revel wasof an illustrious family in that province which gaveso many signal members to the order—Dauphiny;and if he had already acquired a high character, hisreign as grand master was to be worthy of it. Andin the last month of that same year, by that samePope, is another bull on the same Hungarian affair■—a sort of duplicate to the former, in considera-tion probably of the change of grand masters. 3 Yetit cannot be allowed that, as the other histories haveit, he should be considered as the inventor of com-manderies, since he was himself grand commanderat the very time of his election to be grand master; 4and had been grand preceptor for years before madegrand commander. 5 Truth is, commander is adignity that dates as far back as 1194, or muchearlier. 6

Already had Bibars (the same who destroyed the

1 Cod. Dipl. Geros. i. Num. cxxxiii.—Appendix, lxxii.

2 Seb. Paoli: i. 342.

3 Cod. Dipl. Geros. i., Bolla xii. 277.

4 Id. JSnim. cxxvi_Appendix, lxix.

Id. Id. cxxiv.— Id., lxviii.

Id. Id. lxxxi.— Id., lxxiii.

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