v08_1222 - RHODES - GRANDS MAÎTRES DE L'ORDRE DE L'HÔPITAL ET DE SAINT-JEAN DE JÉRUSALEM - PIERRE DE CORNEILLAN Gros ou gigliato n.d. Rhodes

RHODES - GRANDS MAÎTRES DE L'ORDRE DE L'HÔPITAL ET DE SAINT-JEAN DE JÉRUSALEM - PIERRE DE CORNEILLAN

(1354-1355)

Rhodes was taken from the Byzantines in 1308. When the Knights of the Hospital evacuated Cyprus, they took refuge in Rhodes and were to remain there until the fall of the island, in 1522, taken by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. In 1530, the Hospitallers obtained from Charles V the Island of Malta as their new place of residence. In 1354 Pierre de Corneillan, Grand Prior of Saint-Gilles, succeeded Dieudonné de Gozon (1346-1354), third Grand Master of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem in Rhodes. Its arms were "Gules a band of silver charged with three martlets of sand". In 1355, Roger de Pins (1355-1365) succeeded Pierre de Corneillan whose magisterium was one of the shortest in the history of the Order of the Hospital.