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Notitae Templariae.
NOTITAE TEMPLARIAE .
( No . VII . ) Continued from page 164 , 1838 . GRAND MASTERS OF THE TEMPLE . IN the first part of a former number of these notices we gave a short account of the distinguished knights who had filled the dignity of Grand
Master of the Temple , from Hugo de Payens to Gerard tie Ridefort ( or Ridgefort ) , inclusive . Resuming the series rather more in detail , we commence with the Grand Master , ROBERT DE SABLE , who was elected in 1191 . This chief was thc son of Robert of Sable and his lady Hersenda . He appears to have been twice a widower , having had for his first wife Margaret de Chaourceand for his secondClementina de Mayenneby whom he
, , , had a son Godfrey and two daughters . At what period he first entered the Order does not precisely appear ; he arrived before Acre with Richard of England , whose fleet he commanded , and was on very friendly terms with the lion-hearted crusader . After Robert had attained the Mastership , Richard proposed to put him in possession of Cyprus , which object was accomplished by the Grand Master paying over 20000 marks of silver into the hands of the King of England , —a
, sum which shows the wealth and resources of the Order at that time . One hundred knights , with their attendants , were sent to Cyprus to take possession ; but the natives could never be completely kept under by so small a force , and the island was obliged to be finally given up . After the fall of Acre , Richard and the crusaders , accompanied by
Robert de Sable and his chivalry , re-took from the infidels various forts and cities along the coast , among which was that of Gaza , a town formerly belonging to the Templars . Richard restored it to the protection of the Grand Master , who rebuilt the ramparts , and fortified it with towers . When the King of England at last left the shores of Palestine , he imparted his purpose of setting sail in a private manner to Robert the Grand Master , begging him to give him one of the Order ' s galleys and two trusty knihts companionswith whom he miht associate
g , g and in the habit of a Templar he embarked for Europe . The issue of his romantic adventure is well known . Nothing in the character or conduct of Robert de Sable appears to justify the ruffian portrait which Sir Walter Scott has drawn in the " Talisman , " of the chief of the Order at this period . On the contrary Robert seems to have been a man of more than ordinary excellence of character , in times and amid scenes , when the nicer distinctions of honour and integrity were too often
lost sight of . He is said to have fallen in fight about the year 1193 . GILBERT ERAL , Horal , or Gral , ( for it is thus variously written ) , succeeded De Sable in the Grand Mastership of the Temple . He is expressly mentioned in the Bull " omne datum optimum , " issued by Pope Celestine III , of date 26 th May , 1191 ; and he held at a previous period the office of Grand Prior of France . During his rule the latent rivalry between the two Orders of the le and ital broke forth
Temp Hosp , in a violent act of the former ; namely , the seizure of a house of the Hospitallers , called Margat , to which the Templars asserted a claim . The dispute being referred to the Pope , " the Hospitallers , " says Vertot , " deputed to Rome Brother d'Isigni , Prior of Barletto , ancl Brother Auger , Preceptor of another house ; the Templars sent thither on their VOL . VII . / j
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Notitae Templariae.
NOTITAE TEMPLARIAE .
( No . VII . ) Continued from page 164 , 1838 . GRAND MASTERS OF THE TEMPLE . IN the first part of a former number of these notices we gave a short account of the distinguished knights who had filled the dignity of Grand
Master of the Temple , from Hugo de Payens to Gerard tie Ridefort ( or Ridgefort ) , inclusive . Resuming the series rather more in detail , we commence with the Grand Master , ROBERT DE SABLE , who was elected in 1191 . This chief was thc son of Robert of Sable and his lady Hersenda . He appears to have been twice a widower , having had for his first wife Margaret de Chaourceand for his secondClementina de Mayenneby whom he
, , , had a son Godfrey and two daughters . At what period he first entered the Order does not precisely appear ; he arrived before Acre with Richard of England , whose fleet he commanded , and was on very friendly terms with the lion-hearted crusader . After Robert had attained the Mastership , Richard proposed to put him in possession of Cyprus , which object was accomplished by the Grand Master paying over 20000 marks of silver into the hands of the King of England , —a
, sum which shows the wealth and resources of the Order at that time . One hundred knights , with their attendants , were sent to Cyprus to take possession ; but the natives could never be completely kept under by so small a force , and the island was obliged to be finally given up . After the fall of Acre , Richard and the crusaders , accompanied by
Robert de Sable and his chivalry , re-took from the infidels various forts and cities along the coast , among which was that of Gaza , a town formerly belonging to the Templars . Richard restored it to the protection of the Grand Master , who rebuilt the ramparts , and fortified it with towers . When the King of England at last left the shores of Palestine , he imparted his purpose of setting sail in a private manner to Robert the Grand Master , begging him to give him one of the Order ' s galleys and two trusty knihts companionswith whom he miht associate
g , g and in the habit of a Templar he embarked for Europe . The issue of his romantic adventure is well known . Nothing in the character or conduct of Robert de Sable appears to justify the ruffian portrait which Sir Walter Scott has drawn in the " Talisman , " of the chief of the Order at this period . On the contrary Robert seems to have been a man of more than ordinary excellence of character , in times and amid scenes , when the nicer distinctions of honour and integrity were too often
lost sight of . He is said to have fallen in fight about the year 1193 . GILBERT ERAL , Horal , or Gral , ( for it is thus variously written ) , succeeded De Sable in the Grand Mastership of the Temple . He is expressly mentioned in the Bull " omne datum optimum , " issued by Pope Celestine III , of date 26 th May , 1191 ; and he held at a previous period the office of Grand Prior of France . During his rule the latent rivalry between the two Orders of the le and ital broke forth
Temp Hosp , in a violent act of the former ; namely , the seizure of a house of the Hospitallers , called Margat , to which the Templars asserted a claim . The dispute being referred to the Pope , " the Hospitallers , " says Vertot , " deputed to Rome Brother d'Isigni , Prior of Barletto , ancl Brother Auger , Preceptor of another house ; the Templars sent thither on their VOL . VII . / j