Renaud (Reginald) de Vichiers (? – 20 January 1256) was the 19th
Grand Master of the Knights Templar from 1250 to 1256.
He joined the Knights Templar and was appointed Preceptor of
Saint-Jean-d'Acre in 1240 and Master of France from 1242 to 1249.
He was a supporter and comrade-in-arms of
Louis IX of France
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, who helped him be elected Grand Master in place of
Guillaume de Sonnac, killed in Egypt at the
Battle of Al Mansurah, February 11, 1250. He shortly quarreled with Louis, though, over a diplomatic mission of Hugues de Jouy, the Templar Marshal, to
Damascus
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. In 1252 Hugues was banished from the
Kingdom of Jerusalem.
In 1252 Renaud de Vichiers retired to a monastery where he stayed until his death on 20 January 1256.
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Grand Masters of the Knights Templar
Christians of the Sixth Crusade
Christians of the Seventh Crusade
13th-century French people
Year of birth unknown
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