Guérin Lebrun

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Guerin
engraving around 1725
Grandmaster coat of arms of Guerin

Guérin called "the brown one" (French Lebrun , also Gerin , Latin Guerinus ; † 1236 ) was the 16th Grand Master of the Order of St. John from 1231 until his death .

Nothing is known about Guerin's family name, origin or nationality. His family coat of arms is believed to be fictitious, although all heraldists use it uniformly. He had been Prior of France since at least 1225, when he was elected Grand Master in 1231, suggesting that he was from northern or western France.

In the Lombards War, a civil war between the barons of Jerusalem and Cyprus against the governors of Emperor Frederick II , he, like the Knights Templar, initially sought neutrality. In the course of the further escalation of the war, he took the imperial side politically, while the Templars sided with the barons. Only with the greatest effort could the scandal that there would have been fights between the two Christian orders of knights be avoided.

In 1232 the order bought the castle of Cafarlet from the Lord of Caesare , which had been pledged to him since 1213.

After the death of the Ayyubid Emir of Hama , An-Nasir Kilidsch Arslan , in 1229 his brother and successor al-Muzaffar Mahmud stopped paying tribute to the Johanniter and repulsed a punitive expedition that followed in the summer of 1230. Guérin then assembled a large army in October 1233, to which the emir immediately submitted and resumed the payment of tribute. His relatives, the Ayyubid sultans of Cairo ( al-Kamil ) and Damascus ( al-Ashraf Musa ) had sent him no support - they were interested in peace with the Crusaders in order to have a free hand for a campaign against the Rumeljuks .

According to the chronicles of the orders, he was considered a modest man who rejected the pomp and ceremonies that his office brought with it. He attached great importance to the finances of the order and was able to build up considerable financial reserves for the order through his careful and peaceful reign. He died in the summer of 1236.

literature

  • J. Delaville Le Roulx: Les hospitaliers en terre sainte et à Chypre 1100 à 1310. Ernest Leroux, Paris 1904.
  • Edwin James King: The Knights Hospitallers in the Holy Land. Methuen & Company Limited, London 1931.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Eugène Harot: Essai d'armorial des Grands-Maîtres de l'Ordre de Saint Jean de Jérusalem. Collegio Araldico, Rome 1911.
  2. ↑ King, p. 211
  3. ↑ King, p. 211 f.
  4. ↑ King, p. 212
  5. ↑ King, p. 213 f.
  6. ↑ a b King, p. 214
  7. ↑ a b c King, p. 219
predecessor Office successor
Bertrand de Thessy Grand Master of the Order of St. John
1231–1236 		Bertrand de Comps
personal data
SURNAME Guérin Lebrun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guerinus; Gerin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Grand Master of the Order of Malta
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1236