E-auction 49-20933 - fre_324172 - RHODES - GRANDS MAÎTRES DE L'ORDRE DE L'HÔPITAL ET DE SAINT-JEAN DE JÉRUSALEM - HÉLION DE VILLENEUVE Gros ou gigliato n.d. Rhodes

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Estimate :	600 €
Price :	210 €
Maximum bid :	245 €
End of the sale :	24 March 2014 17:11:30
bidders :	10 bidders

Type : Gros ou gigliato

Date: c. 1330-1346

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Rhodes

Metal : silver

Diameter : 27,1 mm

Orientation dies : 4 h.

Weight : 3,89 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Très beau revers

Catalogue references :

Sch.p.244-245 - Metcalf1172-1186

Obverse

Obverse legend : +. FR: ELION'. D'. VILENOVA. D'I' GRA MR', (E ET N LIÉS).

Obverse description : Le grand maître Hélion de Villeneuve agenouillé à gauche, priant devant une croix patriarcale posée sur trois degrés.

Obverse translation : (Frère Hélion de Villeneuve, par la grâce de Dieu, maître).

Reverse

Reverse legend : +. OSPTAL'. S. IOHIS. IRL NI. ET'. RODI, (A ET L LIÉS, N ET H ONCIALES, E EN FORME DE Q POUR CUM).

Reverse description : Croix feuillue dont chaque bras porte un écu de l'Ordre (de gueules à la croix d'argent).

Reverse translation : (De l'Hôpital, de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem et de Rhodes).

Historical background

RHODES - GRANDS MAÎTRES DE L'ORDRE DE L'HÔPITAL ET DE SAINT-JEAN DE JÉRUSALEM - HÉLION DE VILLENEUVE

(1319-1346)

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 1319, Hélion de Villeneuve succeeded Foulques de Villaret (1305-1319) first grand master of the order of Saint John of Jerusalem in Rhodes who abdicated. Hélion, Grand Prior of Saint-Gilles, was elected Grand Master of the Order at the age of fifty-six. He remained in Europe, and did not go to Rhodes until 1332. On May 27, 1346, Helion died in Rhodes at the age of eighty-three. Its arms were "Gules a band Or and a fox of the same, running above the band, on the chief sewn Azure, charged with three stars five rays of the sec". In 1346 Dieudonné de Gozon succeeded him.