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    Guillaume de Villaret (c. 1235 – 1305), was the twenty-fourth Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, a position he held from 1296 until 1305, succeeding...
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    native of Languedoc-Roussillon, France, his uncle was Grand Master Guillaume de Villaret. His uncle had done much to foster his early career in the Order...
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    succeeded as Grand Master by his challenger Guillaume de Villaret. One of the first tasks to which de Villaret devoted himself was to reduce the power acquired...
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    Rhodes, beginning with Foulques de Villaret. The first to use the title Grandis Magister (Grand Master) was Jean de Lastic (reigned 1437–1454). Later...
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    themselves becoming enmeshed in Cypriot politics, their Master, Guillaume de Villaret, created a plan of acquiring their own temporal domain, selecting...
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    Jean de Villiers. He moved the headquarters of the Order to Limasso in modern-day Cyprus. Upon his death, he was succeeded by Guillaume de Villaret. Odo...
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    memorandum drafted by the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitallers Guillaume de Villaret about military plans for a Crusade envisaged a Mongol invasion of...
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    of these talks. A memorandum drafted by the Hospitaller master Guillaume de Villaret concerning military plans for a crusade envisaged a Mongol invasion...
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    themselves becoming enmeshed in Cypriot politics, their Master, Guillaume de Villaret, created a plan of acquiring their own temporal domain, selecting...
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    in 1310, a fleet departed eastward under the leadership of Foulques de Villaret. Rather than go to the Holy Land, it sailed for the island of Rhodes...
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