fwo_695520 - RHODES - GRANDS MAÎTRES DE L'ORDRE DE L'HOSPITAL ET DE SAINT-JEAN DE JÉRUSALEM - JUAN FERANDEZ DE HEREDIA Gros ou gigliato n.d. Rhodes

RHODES - GRANDS MAÎTRES DE L'ORDRE DE L'HOSPITAL ET DE SAINT-JEAN DE JÉRUSALEM - JUAN FERANDEZ DE HEREDIA

(1376-1396)

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, captured by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The big one that the knights strike in Rhodes is directly inspired at the start by the pugs of Naples. It is a large heavy silver coin. Robert de Juilly succeeded Raymond Béranger (1365-1374). He was from Claye, near Meaux. He fortified the island and died after two years of magisterium.