List Of Grand Masters Of The Knights Hospitaller

Prince and Grand Master of Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Prince and Grand Master of Sovereign Military Order of Malta
	Coat of arms
Incumbent
	John T. Dunlap; Prince and Grand Master; since 13 June 2022
Details
Style	His Most Eminent Highness
First monarch	Blessed Gerard
Formation	1099

It also includes unrecognized "anti-grand masters" and lieutenants or stewards during vacancies.

In lists of the heads of the Order, the title "Grand Master" is often applied retrospectively to the early heads of the Order. The medieval heads of the Order used the title of custos (Guardian) of the hospital. The title magister (Master) is used on coins minted in Rhodes, beginning with Foulques de Villaret. The first to use the title Grandis Magister (Grand Master) was Jean de Lastic (reigned 1437–1454). Later grand masters in Rhodes used Magnus Magister (Grand Master).

In 1607 the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II created the Grand Master a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (Reichsfürst). This grant was renewed by the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II on July 16, 1620. On March 20, 1607, Pope Paul V granted the Grand Master the style of His Eminence and precedence at the Court of Rome immediately after the cardinals.

In 1880 the title of Fürst (Prince) was recognised in Austria by the Emperor Franz Joseph I.

On February 2, 1929, the title of Principe (Prince) and the style of Altezza Eminentissima (Most Eminent Highness) were recognised in Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III.

The style currently used by the Grand Master is:

English: Most Eminent Highness,

Italian: Altezza Eminentissima,

French: Altesse Eminentissime,

German: Hoheit und Eminenz,

Spanish: Alteza Eminentísima.

Numbered lists of the heads of the Order were published beginning in the early 17th century, with updated editions appearing throughout the 18th century. The numbering of Masters and Grand Masters published in the 1719 Statutes of the Order lists Blessed Gerard as founder without number, Raymond du Puy as 1st Master, and Ramón Perellós (the incumbent as of 1719) as 63rd Grand Master. The numbering currently used by the Sovereign Military Order of Malta lists Blessed Gerard as 1st Master, Raymond du Puy as 2nd Master, Ramón Perellós y Rocafull as 64th Grand Master, and Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto as 80th Grand Master.

Knights Hospitaller (Kingdom of Jerusalem)

No.	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 by Paschal II in his bull Pie postulatio voluntatis in 1113
1/2	Guardian	Raymond du Puy	1118/21/23–1160	Succeeded Gerard after Pierre de Barcelona and Boyant Roger served in ad interim capacity. Began the use of the Hospitallers as a military force in the Holy Land and codified rules of conduct for the Order. Introduced the Order's Great Seal.
2/3	Guardian	Auger de Balben	1160–1162/3
3/4	Guardian	Arnaud de Comps	c. 1162–1163	Historicity uncertain. Arnaud de Comps is today considered by some as a master who never existed, his name having appeared in the chronological lists placed at the top of the statutes, but his rank is still maintained in the lists of the Grand Masters.
4/5	Guardian	Gilbert of Assailly	1163–1169	Supported Amalric of Jerusalem in the Crusader invasions of Egypt
5/6	Guardian	Gastone de Murols	c. 1170–1172
6/7	Guardian	Jobert of Syria	c. 1169/72–1177	Acted as regent for king Amalric of Jerusalem in 1172. In 1174, opposed Miles of Plancy in favour of Raymond III of Tripoli.
7/8	Guardian	Roger de Moulins	1177–1187	Killed at the Battle of Cresson. Commander William Borrel was appointed Grand Master ad interim, and he was killed at the Battle of Hattin, 3 months later.
8/9	Provisor	Armengol de Aspa	1187–1190	Grand Master ad interim during the loss of Jerusalem in 1187, headquarters moved to Acre. Included in the canonical list of Grand Masters compiled in the early modern period. After the capture of Acre and the consolidation of the order, Armengol abdicated, and Garnier de Nablus elected as Grand Master.
9/10	Guardian	Garnier de Nablus	1190–1192	Supported Richard I of England in the Third Crusade.
10/11	Guardian	Geoffroy de Donjon	1193–1202	After his death, succeeded by Pierre de Mirmande as Grand Master ad interim.
11/12	Guardian	Afonso de Portugal	1202–1206	Resigned in 1206
12/13	Guardian	Geoffroy le Rat	1206–1207	First structured the Order by nationality, or Langues.
13/14	Guardian	Guérin de Montaigu	1207–1228	Fifth Crusade.
14/15	Guardian	Bertrand de Thessy	1228–1231	Sixth Crusade.
15/16	Guardian	Guérin Lebrun	1231–1236	Conflict with Bohemond IV of Antioch.
16/17	Guardian	Bertrand de Comps	1236–1240	Barons' Crusade, Headquarters moved to Jerusalem.
17/18	Guardian	Pierre de Vieille-Brioude	1240–1242	Battle of Gaza, conflict with the Templars.
18/19	Guardian	Guillaume de Chateauneuf	1242–1258	Fall of Jerusalem in 1244, headquarters at Acre, Krak des Chevaliers and Margat. Captured at La Forbie in 1244. Jean de Ronay served as Grand Master ad interim, dying in 1250 at Mansurah. De Chateauneuf was released by the Ayyubids on 17 October 1250.
19/20	Guardian	Hugues de Revel	1258–1277	Loss of Krak des Chevaliers in 1271
20/21	Guardian	Nicolas Lorgne	1277–1285	Loss of Margat in 1285. Upon his death, Grand Commander Jacques de Taxi served as Grand Master ad interim until his successor Jean de Villiers arrived in the Holy Land.
21/22	Guardian	Jean de Villiers	1285–1294	Siege of Acre.
22/23	Guardian	Odon de Pins	1294–1296	Headquarters moved to Limisso, Cyprus.
23/24	Guardian	Guillaume de Villaret	1296–1305

Knights of Rhodes

No.	Title	Name	Time in office	Notes
24/25	Master	Foulques de Villaret	1305–1319	Nephew of Guillaume de Villaret. Resigned at request of Pope John XXII, 1319. Died 1327.
	Anti-Master	Maurice de Pagnac (unrecognized)	1317–1319
25/26	Master	Hélion de Villeneuve	1319–1346
26/27	Master	Dieudonné de Gozon	1346–1353
27/28	Master	Pierre de Corneillan	1353–1355
28/29	Master	Roger de Pins	1355–1365
29/30	Master	Raymond Berengar	1365–1374
30/31	Master	Robert de Juilly (de Juliac)	1374–1376
31/32	Master	Juan Fernández de Heredia	1376–1396	Appointed by Pope Gregory XI. Later supported Antipope Clement VII. Deposed by Pope Urban VI, 1382. Continued as Anti-Master at Rhodes until his death.
32/33	Master	Riccardo Caracciolo	1383–1395	Appointed by Pope Urban VI, 1382.
33/34	Master	Philibert de Naillac	1396–1421
34/35	Master	Anton Flavian de Ripa	1421–1437
35/36	Grand Master	Jean de Lastic	1437–1454	Siege of Rhodes (1444); first use of the title "Grand Master" (Grandis Magister)
36/37	Grand Master	Jacques de Milly	1454–1461
37/38	Grand Master	Piero Raimondo Zacosta	1461–1467
38/39	Grand Master	Giovanni Battista Orsini	1467–1476
39/40	Grand Master	Pierre d'Aubusson	1476–1503	Siege of Rhodes (1480)
40/41	Grand Master	Emery d'Amboise	1503–1512
41/42	Grand Master	Guy de Blanchefort	1512–1513
42/43	Grand Master	Fabrizio del Carretto	1513–1521
43/44	Grand Master	Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam	1521–1534	Siege of Rhodes (1522), headquarters moved to Malta in 1530

Knights of Malta

No.	Title	Name	Time in office	Notes
43/44	Grand Master	Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam	1521–1534	Headquarters moved from Rhodes in 1530
44/45	Grand Master	Piero de Ponte	1534–1535
45/46	Grand Master	Didier de Saint-Jaille	1535–1536
46/47	Grand Master	Juan de Homedes	1536–1553	Malta was attacked by an Ottoman fleet in 1551. The attack was repelled, but the Ottomans captured the island of Gozo, and later also the order's stronghold in Tripoli. De Homedes began a program improve the fortifications at Malta
47/48	Grand Master	Claude de la Sengle	1553–1557	Continued the improvement of fortifications, expanding Fort Saint Michael into a major bastion and completing Fort Saint Elmo.
48/49	Grand Master	Jean Parisot de Valette	1557–1568	Valette became the Order's most illustrious leader, commanding the resistance against the Ottomans at the Great Siege of Malta in 1565.
49/50	Grand Master	Pierre de Monte	1568–1572	Continued the construction of the new capital Valletta. Strengthened the order's fleet, and participated in the Battle of Lepanto of 7 October 1571.
50/51	Grand Master	Jean de la Cassière	1572–1581	Crisis in the wake of the Protestant Reformation. Expulsion of the Order of Saint John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg) in 1581.
	Lieutenant	Mathurin Romegas	1577–1581
	Anti-Grand Master	Mathurin Romegas	1581
51/52	Grand Master	Hugues Loubenx de Verdalle	1581–1595
52/53	Grand Master	Martín Garzés	1595–1601
53/54	Prince and Grand Master	Alof de Wignacourt	1601–1622	Constructed the Wignacourt towers and the Wignacourt Aqueduct. Repelled the last serious Ottoman attempt at capturing Malta in 1614.
54/55	Prince and Grand Master	Luís Mendes de Vasconcellos	1622–1623
55/56	Prince and Grand Master	Antoine de Paule	1623–1636
56/57	Prince and Grand Master	Giovanni Paolo Lascaris	1636–1657	Caribbean possessions
57/58	Prince and Grand Master	Martin de Redin	1657–1660
58/59	Prince and Grand Master	Annet de Clermont-Gessant	1660	Died less than four months after his election, on 2 June 1660.
59/60	Prince and Grand Master	Rafael Cotoner	1660–1663	Commissioned the Italian Baroque artist Mattia Preti to start painting Saint John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta.
60/61	Prince and Grand Master	Nicolás Cotoner	1663–1680	Siege of Candia + Mattia Preti's work at St John's Co-Cathedral completed.
61/62	Prince and Grand Master	Gregorio Carafa	1680–1690	Renovation of Auberge d'Italie in the Baroque style, improvement of Fort Saint Angelo and Fort Saint Elmo. Ottoman attacks were still expected, but there were no longer any notable engagements.
62/63	Prince and Grand Master	Adrien de Wignacourt	1690–1697	Instituted a widows pension for the widows of those fallen in the Ottoman wars.
63/64	Prince and Grand Master	Ramón Perellós	1697–1720	Organised the Consulato del Mare (Consulate of the Sea). Established relations with imperial Russia. Fought corruption within the Order. Engagement against Ottoman pirates.
64/65	Prince and Grand Master	Marc'Antonio Zondadari	1720–1722
65/66	Prince and Grand Master	António Manoel de Vilhena	1722–1736	Restored the city Mdina, constructed Fort Manoel and significantly improved the fortifications of Malta in general. Built Casa Leoni and Palazzo Parisio, and renovated Verdala Palace. Manoel Theatre (1731). Conducted peace negotiations with the Ottomans, without result. Declared neutrality in the War of the Polish Succession.
66/67	Prince and Grand Master	Ramón Despuig	1736–1741	Improved the fortifications of Mdina, modernised legislation, renovated the Co-Cathedral of St. John. Naval engagements with Ottoman Algeria.
67/68	Prince and Grand Master	Manuel Pinto da Fonseca	1741–1773	Expelled the Jesuits from Malta. In 1753 proclaimed the sovereignty of the Order on Malta and a dispute started with the Kingdom of Sicily under King Charles V. Normal relations were resumed the next year, with the Order retaining de facto control over Malta as a sovereign state.
68/69	Prince and Grand Master	Francisco Ximénez de Tejada	1773–1775	Rising of the Priests (1775), bankruptcy of the order.
69/70	Prince and Grand Master	Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc	1775–1797	Instituted the Anglo-Bavarian langue and the Russian Grand Priory.
70/71	Prince and Grand Master	Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim	1797–1799	First German elected to the office. Abdicated 6 July 1799 following the French invasion of Malta.

Sovereign Military Order of Malta

No.	Title	Name	Time in office	Notes
72	Grand Master de facto	Paul I of Russia	1798–1801	Elected by the Priory of St. Petersburg in September 1798 (before the abdication of von Hompesch). Election not confirmed by Pope Pius VII.
		Nikolai Saltykov	1801–1803	De facto Lieutenant in Saint Petersburg.
73	Prince and Grand Master	Giovanni Battista Tommasi	1803–1805	Appointed by Pope Pius VII. Residence in Messina and Catania.
	Lieutenant	Innico Maria Guevara-Suardo	1805–1814	Headquarters in Catania.
	Lieutenant	Andrea Di Giovanni y Centellés	1814–1821	Headquarters in Catania.
	Lieutenant	Antoine Busca	1821–1834	Headquarters in Ferrara.
	Lieutenant	Carlo Candida	1834–1845	Headquarters moved to Palazzo Malta, Rome.
	Lieutenant	Filippo di Colloredo-Mels	1845–1864
	Lieutenant	Alessandro Borgia	1865–1871
	Lieutenant	Giovanni Battista Ceschi a Santa Croce	1871–1879
74	Prince and Grand Master	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	Galeas von Thun und Hohenstein	1905–1931
76	Prince and Grand Master	Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere	1931–1951
	Lieutenant	Antonio Hercolani Fava Simonetti	1951–1955
	Lieutenant	Ernesto Paternò Castello di Carcaci	1955–1962	Constitutional Charter approved by Apostolic Letter of Pope John XXIII, June 24, 1961.
77	Prince and Grand Master	Angelo de Mojana di Cologna	1962–1988
	Lieutenant ad interim	Jean Charles Pallavicini	1988
78	Prince and Grand Master	Andrew Bertie	1988–2008	Constitutional Charter and Code revised by the Extraordinary Chapter General 28-30 April 1997.
	Lieutenant ad interim	Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto	2008
79	Prince and Grand Master	Matthew Festing	2008–2017	First Grand Master elected under the new constitution of 1997. Resigned in 2017.
	Lieutenant ad interim	Ludwig Hoffmann-Rumerstein	2017
	Lieutenant of the Grand Master	Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto	2017–2018
80	Prince and Grand Master	Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto	2018–2020
	Lieutenant ad interim	Ruy Gonçalo do Valle Peixoto de Villas Boas	2020
	Lieutenant of the Grand Master	Marco Luzzago	2020–2022
	Lieutenant ad interim	Ruy Gonçalo do Valle Peixoto de Villas Boas	2022
	Lieutenant of the Grand Master	John T. Dunlap	2022–2023	Appointed by Pope Francis.
81	Prince and Grand Master	John T. Dunlap	2023–present	First Grand Master following the 2022 revision of the Order's constitution.

References

Robert Morris, Coins of the grand masters of the Order of Malta: or Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem (1884).

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