List of Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller Facts for Kids

Coat of arms of the Order of Saint John. The personal coat of arms of the Grand Master would be shown next to the order's coat of arms in 14th to 15th centuries. Beginning in the mid-15th century, the Grand Master would quarter the order's coat of arms with his own.

This is a list of Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller including their replacement Sovereign Military Order of Malta after 1798.

Knights Hospitaller (Kingdom of Jerusalem)

Nr	Title	Name	Time in office	Notes
—/1	Founder and Rector of the Hospital	Blessed Gerard	1099/1113–1118/20	Order established in 1099 and given papal recognition in 1113 by Paschal II
1/2	Custos	Raymond du Puy	1118/21/23–1160
2/3	Custos	Auger de Balben	1160–1163
3/4		Arnaud de Comps	1162–1163	Historicity uncertain
4/5	Custos	Gilbert d'Aissailly	1163–1169
5/6		Gastone de Murols	c. 1169
6/7	Custos	Jobert of Syria	c. 1169/72–1177	Acted as regent for king Manuel I in 1172. In 1174 opposed Miles of Plancy in favour of Raymond III of Tripoli. Fought in the crusade of Philip I, Count of Flanders of 1176.
7/8	Custos	Roger de Moulins	1177–1187
8/9	Provisor	Armengol de Aspa (Ermengard d'Aps)	1187–1190	Loss of Jerusalem in 1187, headquarters moved to Acre. In the crisis following the loss of Jerusalem, Ermengard was not elected as custos and acted only ad interim. He was nevertheless included into the canonical list of Grand Masters compiled in the early modern period. After the capture of Acre and the consolidation of the order, Ermengard retired with the regular election of Garnier de Nablus as new master.
9/10	Custos	Garnier de Nablus	1190–1192	Battle of Arsuf 1191
10/11	Custos	Geoffroy de Donjon	1193–1202
11/12	Custos	Afonso de Portugal	1202–1206	Fourth Crusade, resigned in 1206
12/13	Custos	Geoffrey le Rat (Gothofredus Mus)	1206–1207	First structured the order by nationality, or langues.
13/14	Custos	Guérin de Montaigu	1207–1228	Fifth Crusade, Siege of Damietta (1218–1219)
14/15	Custos	Bertrand de Thercy	1228–1231	Re-conquest of Jerusalem in 1228/9
15/16	Custos	Guerin Lebrun	1231–1236	Captured in battle, and died in captivity in Egypt
16/17	Custos	Bertrand de Comps	1236–1240	Headquarters moved to Jerusalem
17/18	Custos	Pierre de Vieille-Brioude	1240–1242
18/19	Custos	Guillaume de Chateauneuf	1242–1258	Fall of Jerusalem in 1244, headquarters at Acre, Krak des Chevaliers and Margat
19/20	Custos	Hugues de Revel	1258–1277
20/21		Nicolas Lorgne	1277–1285	Loss of Margat 1285
21/22		Jean de Villiers	1285–1294	Siege of Acre (1291)
22/23		Odon de Pins	1294–1296	Headquarters moved to Limisso, Cyprus
23/24		Guillaume de Villaret	1296–1305

Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Nr	Title	Name	Time in office	Notes
72	Grand Master (partial recognition)	Paul I of Russia	1798–1801	Elected by the Priory of St. Petersburg in September 1798 (before the abdication of von Hompesch). This election resulted in the establishment of the Russian tradition of the Knights Hospitaller. On Paul's death in 1801, his son Alexander I of Russia decided to end this irregular situation and refused to be Grand Master. The election of a new Grand Master was deferred to pope Pius VII.
		Nikolay Saltykov	1801–1803	De facto Lieutenant in Saint Petersburg
73	Grand Master Gran Maestro	Giovanni Battista Tommasi	1803–1805	Appointed by Pope Pius VII in 1803. Residence in Messina and Catania
	Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	Innico Maria Guevara-Suardo	1805–1814	Headquarters in Catania. Loss of territories and Protestant branches.
	Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	Andrea Di Giovanni y Centellés	1814–1821	Headquarters in Catania
	Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	Antoine Busca	1821–1834	Headquarters in Ferrara. SMOM recognized at the Congress of Verona (1822).
	Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	Carlo Candida	1834–1845	Headquarters moved to Palazzo Malta, Rome. Restoration of the grand priories of Lombardy-Venetia and of Sicily in 1839/41.
	Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	Filippo di Colloredo-Mels	1845–1864
	Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	Alessandro Borgia	1865–1871
	Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	Giovanni Battista Ceschi a Santa Croce	1871–1879
74	Prince and Grand Master Princeps et Magister Magnus	Giovanni Battista Ceschi a Santa Croce	1879–1905	Restoration of the office of Grand Master after a 75-year interregnum, confirmed by Pope Leo XIII.
75	Prince and Grand Master Princeps et Magister Magnus	Galeas von Thun und Hohenstein	1905–1931
76	Prince and Grand Master Principe e Gran Maestro	Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere	1931–1951
	Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	Antonio Hercolani Fava Simonetti	1951–1955
	Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	Ernesto Paternò Castello di Carcaci	1955–1962
77	Prince and Grand Master Principe e Gran Maestro	Angelo de Mojana di Cologna	1962–1988
	Lieutenant ad interim	Jean Charles Pallavicini	1988
78	Prince and Grand Master Principe e Gran Maestro	Andrew Bertie	1988–2008	Partial revision of the constitution (1997, promulgated 1961).
	Lieutenant ad interim	Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto	2008
79	Prince and Grand Master Principe e Gran Maestro	Matthew Festing	2008–2017	First Grand Master elected under the new constitution of 1997. Resigned in 2017 following a dispute with the Vatican.
	Lieutenant ad interim	Ludwig Hoffmann-Rumerstein	2017
	Lieutenant Luogotenente Generale	Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto	2017–2018
80	Prince and Grand Master Principe e Gran Maestro	Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto	2018–2020

List of Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller facts for kids

Knights Hospitaller (Kingdom of Jerusalem)

Sovereign Military Order of Malta

See also