Odo de Pins (1212 – 24 March 1296), also known as Eudes de Pin or Odon de Pins, was the twenty-third
Grand Master of the
Knights Hospitaller
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, serving from 1294 until his death in 1296, succeeding
Jean de Villiers
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[
] He moved the headquarters of the Order to
Limasso in modern-day
Cyprus
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. Upon his death, he was succeeded by
Guillaume de Villaret
Guillaume de Villaret (c. 1235 – 1305), was the twenty-fourth Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, a position he held from 1296 until 1305, succeeding Odon de Pins. He was succeeded by his nephew, Foulques de Villaret, whose career he had d ...
.
Biography
Odo de Pins was appointed Draper of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem on 7 October 1273. On 28 December 1287, he was appointed Marshal of the Order. He was elected to the magistracy of Grand Master between the end of 1293 and before 30 September 1294, when he presided over his first General Chapter as Grand Master in
Limassol
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As early as 1295, de Pins faced an internal crisis in the Order which was led by Boniface de Calamandrana, Grand Commander of Overseas and Guillaume de Villaret, then Prior of Saint-Gilles. These dignitaries addressed
Pope Boniface VIII
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on 12 August 1295 in order to obtain a reform of the governance of the Order. They wanted the creation of a permanent council composed of seven "definitors" (one representative of each language - not yet officially created and numbering six, not seven - and the Grand Master) who were to assist the Grand Master, control his actions and share with him the main decisions. The pope did not follow up on their proposal, but on 12 August 1295 he sent de Pins a letter of warning which committed the Grand Master to change "his previous errors and to defend the interests of the Order from now on."
It is unknown what the pope and the dignitaries of the Order reproached de Pins for, his piety, one of his characteristics which made him neglect the affairs of the Order, or his authoritarianism which upset the habits, this remains a question in the absence of documents. As de Pins did not take into account Boniface's admonitions, the latter summoned him to appear before the pontifical court. He was about to set out, but he died on 17 March 1296 in Limassol. He was succeeded as Grand Master by
Guillaume de Villaret
Guillaume de Villaret (c. 1235 – 1305), was the twenty-fourth Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, a position he held from 1296 until 1305, succeeding Odon de Pins. He was succeeded by his nephew, Foulques de Villaret, whose career he had d ...
.
See also
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Cartulaire général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers''
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List of Knights Hospitaller sites
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Langue (Knights Hospitaller)
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Flags of the Knights Hospitaller
References
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External links
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Eudes des Pins. French Wikipedia.
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Liste des grands maîtres de l'ordre de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem. French Wikipedia.
*Eugène Harot
Essai d’armorial des Grands-Maîtres de l’Ordre de Saint Jean de JérusalemSeals of the Grand Masters Museum of the Order of St John.
*Charles Moeller,
Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem. ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' (1910). 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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Knights of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. 24. (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 12–19.
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1296 deaths
Knights Hospitaller
Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller
13th-century French people
1212 births