Raymond du Puy
Raymond du Puy or Raimund von Le Puy (lat. Raimundus Puteanus or Raimundus de Podio ) (* 1083 , † between 1158 and 1160) was a nobleman from the county of Provence and the second Grand Master of the Order of St. John . He is venerated in the order as a blessed .
He came from a noble family named after the place Le Puy-en-Velay . In the Holy Land he was elected the second Grand Master of the Knights and Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem , or Hospitaller for short, in 1120 . He held this office for forty years, until his death in 1158/60. From 1157 he was also Grand Master of the Order of Lazarus .
He accepted the eight-pointed Amalfi cross as the official symbol of the order, which later became known as the Maltese cross after the order was established in Malta .
Raymond established the first major hospitaller hospital near the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . During his tenure, the field of activity of the Order of Hospitallers was expanded from the mere lodging and care of pilgrims, the poor and the sick, following the example of the Order of the Templars, founded around 1119, to their military protection. To this end, Raymond divided the order into ecclesiastical, military and serving brothers. In 1131 King Fulk of Jerusalem entrusted the order with the protection of the place Be'er Scheva . In 1136 the order acquired the Beit Gibelin castle and in 1142 the Krak des Chevaliers . With his troops of the order, Raymond also took part in the conquest of Askalon in 1153.
His exact date of death is unknown. It was last documented on October 25, 1158 in Verona, where he negotiated with Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa about the privileges of the order in his countries. He had already died on November 29, 1160, on this date his successor Auger de Balben was first mentioned as the new Grand Master.
literature
- Joseph Marie Antoine Delaville Le Roulx: Les Hospitaliers En Terre Sainte Et Chypre, 1100-1310. BiblioBazaar, Charleston 2009, ISBN 1113159626 , pp. 44-61
- Ducaud-Bourget, François: The Spiritual Heritage of The Sovereign Military Order of Malta , Vatican 1958
- Pierre d'Avity / Johann Ludwig Gottfried : Archontologiae Cosmicae Buch III, Frankfurt am Main, 1628, p. 32 (online here)
Web links
- Raymond du Puy at cilialacorte.com
- The Blessed Raymond du Puis at smom-za.org
- The 79 grandmasters at orderofmalta.org
- The rule of the order of Raymond de Puy 1125 (Latin / German) at ig-hospitalis.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Delaville Le Roulx, p. 60
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Gerhard Sasso |
Grand Master of the Order of St. John 1120–1158 / 60 |
Auger de Balben |
| Hugues de Saint-Pol |
Grand Master of the Order of Lazarus 1157–1158 / 60 |
Rainier |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raymond du Puy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Raymond from Le Puy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | 2. Grand Master of the Order of St. John |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1083 |
| DATE OF DEATH | between 1158 and 1160 |