Armand de Périgord

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Armand de Périgord , also Hermann de Pierre-Grosse ( German: Hermann von Perigord , * 1178 , † between 1244 and 1247) was the sixteenth Grand Master of the Templar Order .

He was a son of the Count of Périgord ( House of Périgord ). Since 1205 he was master of the Templar provinces of Apulia and Sicily . In 1232 he was elected Grand Master.

In the civil war between the local nobility of the Holy Land and the governors of Emperor Frederick II ( Lombard War , 1229-1243), he took a mediating position and tried to attract attention, unlike his predecessor, who had taken a clear position against the emperor to turn back to the common enemy, the Muslims.

During his tenure, the barons' crusade (1239–1241) came to Palestine, which the Templars under Armand joined. In the course of the crusade, considerable territorial gains were achieved through diplomatic channels. Since the Muslim empires of Egypt and Syria were at war with each other at that time, the Crusaders managed to play them off against each other. The Templars advocated an alliance with the Syrian Sultan of Damascus, from whom they received back the Safed fortress, among other things , while the Hospitallers advocated a contract with the Egyptian Sultan of Cairo. A letter from Armand to Robert de Sandfort, master of the English Templar Province, in which he reports on the successes of the crusade, has survived to this day.

In October 1244 he took part in the Battle of La Forbie . It is unclear whether he was killed in battle, he was probably captured by the Egyptians and did not die until 1247. In any case, Richard de Bures was elected Grand Master of the Templars as early as 1245 to represent him during his absence.

literature

  • Karl Gottlieb Anton: Attempting a History of the Templar Order. AF Böhme, Leipzig 1779.
  • Malcolm Barber: The new knighthood. A history of the Order of the Temple. Canto (Cambridge University Press), 1995, ISBN 0521558727 .
predecessor Office successor
Pedro de Montaigu Grand Master of the Templar Order
1232–1244 		Richard de Bures
personal data
SURNAME Armand de Périgord
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hermann de Pierre-Grosse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Grand Master of the Templar Order
DATE OF BIRTH 1178
DATE OF DEATH between 1244 and 1247