Richard de Bures

Richard de Bures († probably May 9, 1247 near Tiberias ) was the seventeenth Grand Master of the Knights Templar from 1245 to 1247 . It is possible that he was only the deputy of the Grand Master Armand de Périgord, who was in captivity of the Sultan al-Salih of Egypt .

He was perhaps related to the lords of Bures-sur-Yvette ( Île-de-France ). Occasionally it is also stated that he comes from the Ballei Bure-les-Templiers ( Côte-d'Or ), the first Ballei of the Templars in France.

Before he took over the leadership of the order he was in 1241 castellan of the order fortress Safed , which the Templars had received back that year from Sultan al-Salih Ismail of Damascus, and in 1243 he appears as an arbitrator on behalf of the order.

In 1244 the Crusaders suffered a devastating defeat against the Ayyubids at the Battle of La Forbie . The Templar Grand Master Armand de Périgord was either captured or killed in battle. Since a large part of the Knights Templar had also fallen, it was probably difficult to assemble the legally necessary persons to elect a new Grand Master. In this situation Richard took over the office of Grand Master until further notice. Its exact position has not been passed down precisely and is controversial in literature.

He probably died in 1247 in the battle of the Lake of Tiberias against the Ayyubids, as a result of which Tiberias was destroyed.

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. Christian Vogel: The right of the Templars. Selected aspects of Templar law with special consideration of the statute manuscripts from Paris, Rome, Baltimore and Barcelona. Verlag Lit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0776-4 , p. 110.
↑ Cf. Christian Vogel: The right of the Templars. Selected aspects of Templar law with special consideration of the statute manuscripts from Paris, Rome, Baltimore and Barcelona. Verlag Lit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0776-4 , p. 124.

literature

Marie Luise Bulst-Thiele : Sacrae domus militiae Templi Hierosolymitani magistri. Investigation into the history of the Templar Order 1118 / 19–1314. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1974, ISBN 3-525-82353-3 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Armand de Périgord	Grand Master of the Knights Templar 1245–1247	Guillaume de Sonnac

personal data
SURNAME	Richard de Bures
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Grand Master of the Templar Order
DATE OF BIRTH	12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH	May 9, 1247
Place of death	at Tiberias

[1] Cf. Christian Vogel: The right of the Templars. Selected aspects of Templar law with special consideration of the statute manuscripts from Paris, Rome, Baltimore and Barcelona. Verlag Lit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0776-4 , p. 110.

[2] Cf. Christian Vogel: The right of the Templars. Selected aspects of Templar law with special consideration of the statute manuscripts from Paris, Rome, Baltimore and Barcelona. Verlag Lit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0776-4 , p. 124.