Guillaume de Villaret
Guillaume de Villaret , also Wilhelm von Villaret , Wilhelmus Villaretus , († 1307 in Limassol ) was a nobleman from Provence and from 1296 to 1305 the 24th Grand Master of the Order of St. John .
Around 1284 Guillaume had been Grand Prior of St. Gilles . Before that he was rector of Comtat Venaissin .
After the knights were expelled from the " Holy Land " (see also Akkon ) and now resided in Cyprus , a certain licentiousness had spread in the order. An attempt to recapture a base on the mainland near Tartus in 1300 had to be aborted without success due to the lack of support from the allied Mongols (see also the siege of Aruad ). Villaret restored discipline in the order and planned to conquer the island of Rhodes as a new base .
His brother Foulques de Villaret, who succeeded him in the office of Grand Master after Guillaume had resigned in 1305, was able to realize this plan.
Guillaume died in Limassol, Cyprus, in 1307.
literature
- Pierre d'Avity / Johann Ludwig Gottfried : Archontologiae Cosmicae. Jennisius, Frankfurt am Main 1628, Book III, p. 36 (online here) .
- Ernle Bradford : The shield and the sword. The knights of St. John . Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-139110-3 , ( Classic military history ), (first edition: Hodder & Stoughton, London 1972, ISBN 0-340-15934-0 ; also German, most recently: Kreuz und Schwert. Der Johanniter -Malteser-Ritterorden . Licensed edition of the 2nd edition. Unabridged edition. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, 1995, ISBN 3-548-34429-1 , ( Ullstein 34429)).
- Elias Kollias: The Knights of Rhodes. The palace and the city. The medieval city of Rhodes, UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988 . Ektodike Athenon S. A., Athens 1991, ISBN 960-213-255-8 .
Web links
- Guillaume de Villaret at cilialacorte.com ( This link has incorrect dates )
- Guillaume de Villaret at smom-za.org
- The 79 grandmasters ( memento of December 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at orderofmalta.org
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Odon de Pins |
Grand Master of the Order of St. John 1296–1305 |
Foulques de Villaret |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guillaume de Villaret |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Grand Master of the Order of St. John, Prior of St. Gilles |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 13th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1307 |
| Place of death | Limassol (Cyprus) |