Templar of Tire

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The Templar of Tire (French: Le Templier de Tire ; † after 1314) was an anonymous knight of the Templar Order and chronicler in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.

Little is known about his person. In all likelihood, however, he came from Cyprus , as he was a valé (servant, page) in the service of Margaret of Antioch-Lusignan , the sister of King Hugo III. of Cyprus when she married Johann von Montfort in 1269 . He spent the next few years at the court of the Lord of Tire before he entered the Knights Templar around 1283. He was promoted to secretary to Grand Master Guillaume de Beaujeu , for whom he translated the correspondence with the Sultan al-Ashraf Chalil from Arabic into French in 1290 . In 1291 he took part in the unsuccessful defense of Acre , fighting on May 18 at the side of the Grand Master who fell that day. In addition to the letter from the Grand Master of the Hospitallers , Jean de Villiers , the Templar of Tire was supposed to leave one of the two surviving eyewitness accounts for the battle for Acre on the Christian side. In the wake of Thibaud Gaudin , he fled to Sidon after the fall of Acre and after it had to be abandoned on May 28, to Cyprus.

The Templar spent the rest of his life on the island. Here he began to treatise his chronicle after 1300, the name of which is not known, which is why it is simply called "Chronicle of the Templar of Tire". In old French he described the history of the Crusader states beginning in the 1230s up to the year 1309, but he also made comments on events that extend into the year 1314. His original manuscript has not survived , but it was completely copied in 1343 in Kyrenia, Cyprus by the médecin (medicus) Jean le Miege. The Chronicle of the Templar was included in the later compiled Gestes des Chiprois (deeds of the Cypriots) as its third and longest part.

literature

  • Cronaca del Templare di Tiro (1243-1314) : Translation into Italian by Laura Minervini (Naples, 2000)
  • The 'Templar of Tire': Part III of the 'Deeds of the Cypriots' , In: Crusade Texts in Translation , Volume 6: Translation into English by Paul Crawford (2003)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Templars of Tire, Gestes des Chiprois , III, §371
  2. ^ Templars of Tire, Gestes des Chiprois , III, §485
  3. ^ Templars of Tire, Gestes des Chiprois , III, §481
  4. ^ Templars of Tire, Gestes des Chiprois , III, §498
  5. ↑ The first part of the Gestes des Chiprois is a larger treatise of the Annales de Terre Sainte , which covers the years 1132 to 1218 and is lost. The second part is the Chronicle of the Lombards War by Philip of Novara , which describes the years 1218 to 1243.
personal data
SURNAME Templar of Tire
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Templier de Tyr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Knight of the Knights Templar, chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH after 1314