Barthelemy de Quincy

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Barthélemy de Quincy († September 26, 1302 in Aruad ) was Marshal of the Templar Order .

He was a French nobleman from the order province of Burgundy . When the Knights Templar reorganized after the fall of Acre and the loss of all Templar castles on the Levant coast in Cyprus , he took over the post of Marshal from the newly elected Grand Master Jacques de Molay in 1292 . In the years that followed, the order endeavored to organize a campaign to recapture the Holy Land in alliance with the Mongols under Ghazan Ilchan .

At the end of September 1300 Ghazan set out from Tabriz while the Templars and Hospitallers and the King of Cyprus brought their troops into position on the island of Aruad in front of the former Templar stronghold of Tartus . But an unusually severe winter brought the Mongols to a standstill, and Ghazan had to postpone the attack on the Mamluks until a later date. In the meantime, the Templars held the island and made frequent forays to the mainland from there. Barthélemy was in command of the small Templar garrison on the island when it was attacked in 1302 by the Mamluks (Sultanate of Cairo) ( siege of Aruad ). The Templars put up bitter resistance, after initial successes were finally pushed back into the central keep of the island fortress and, when they ran out of supplies, agreed with the besiegers to hand over the island on September 26, 1302, on condition that they enter safe conduct received a Christian country of their choice. When they left the fortress, the Mamluks broke the agreement and attacked the Christians. Barthélemy was killed in the following skirmish on the beach.

literature

  • Pierre-Vincent Claverie: L'ordre du Temple en Terre Sainte et à Chypre au XIIIe siècle. Center de Recherche Scientifique, 2005, ISBN 9-963-08094-4 .
  • Urbain Vermeulen, D. De Smet, J. van Steenbergen (Eds.): Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras. Peeters Publishers, 2001, ISBN 9-042-90970-6 .
  • Alain Demurger: The last Templar. The life and death of the Grand Master Jacques de Molay . CH Beck, 2005, ISBN 3-406-52202-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Barthelemy de Quincy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Marshal of the Knights Templar
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1302
Place of death Aruad