Hélion de Villeneuve Silver gigliato of Elion de Villeuneuve Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes 1319 1346

Hélion de Villeneuve (c. 1270 – 1346) was a French-born Grand Master of the

Knights of St. John The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem ( la, Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani), commonly known as the Knights Hospitaller (), was a medieval and early modern Catholic military order. It was headq ...

. He was the brother of

Saint Roseline Roseline or Rossolina de Villeneuve (1263 – January 17, 1329) was a French Carthusian nun. She is regarded as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. Life Roseline was born to an aristocratic family, at the château of Les Arcs-sur-Argens, Var, ...

. He died on the island of

Rhodes Rhodes (; el, Ρόδος , translit=Ródos ) is the largest and the historical capital of the Dodecanese islands of Greece. Administratively, the island forms a separate municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the So ...

. The

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of his

coat-of-arms A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full heraldic achievement, which in its w ...

was ''Gules six tilting spears in fretty, in-between the spears semy of escutcheons, all or''. There is a legend told of Hélion involving a

dragon A dragon is a reptilian legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Helion de Villeneuve Villeneuve, Helion de 1270 births 1346 deaths 14th-century French people