A History of the Knights of Malta; Or the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem Volume 1-2 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. III. DATE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MILITARY ORDER OF ST. JOHN. CAMPAIGNS OF ANTIOCH AND EDESSA. FOUNDATION OF THE TEMPLARS AND OF THE ORDER OF 8T. LAZARUS. ? EMBASSY OF JOUBERT, AND MARRIAGE OF RAYMOND OF POITIERS. LEGACY OF THE KING OF NAVARRE LOSS OF EDESSA. ? ASSASSINATION OF ZENGHI. ATTEMPTED RECAPTURE OF EDESSA. SECOND CRUSADE. SIEGE OF DAMASCUS. ADVANCE OF THE JARROQUIN8. THEIR RF.PULSF, AND OVERTHROW. SIEGE AND CAPTURE OF ASCALON. JEALOUSIES OF THE CLERGY TOWARDS THE ORDER DEATH OF RAYMOND DU PDY. The precise date at which the changes related at the end of the first chapter took place is more or less a point of dispute, there being no record left of the fact; a matter sufficiently strange, when the vast importance of the alterations, involving as they did the complete reconstruction of the Order, is taken into consideration. Reasoning, however, from analogy, it cannot well be placed at a later date than 1118, the very first year of the accession of Raymond du Puy to the office of Master. Indeed, the two leading chroniclers of the achievements of the Knights of St. John differ but little in the date which they assign to the accession of Raymond: the Abbe Vertot giving it as having occurred in 1118, and the Chevalier Boisgelin in 1120. Other historians, however, amongst whom may be enumerated Boissat, Baudouin, and the Abbe Roux, place the ac- cession of Raymond at as late a date as 1131, accounting for the interval between Gerard's death in 1118 and that time by the insertion of a second rector, named Roger. The authority for this interpolation, since the name of Roger appears nowhere in the archives of the Order, is stated to be a deed of gift of certain lands, presented by Atton, Count of Abrussa, to Roger, the governor of the...