Coats of Arms
of the
Grandmasters of the Order of St John of Jerusalem
Alphabetical List
Sources:
Heraldic
ANF - Annuaire de la Noblesse de France, 1845
G - Galuppi, Giuseppe: Nobiliario della città di Messina, Napoli
1877
JM - Jougla de Morenas H.; de Warren R.: Grand Armorial de France
R - Rietstap, J.B.: Armorial Général (2éme ed.),
G.B van Goor Zonen, Gouda 1884
S - Monuments, etc, St John's Cathedral, Valletta, Malta
U - Attributed
V - Vertot, Monsignor l'Abbe de. The History of the Knights of Malta.
Illustrated with LXXI. heads of the grandmasters, &c., engraved by the
best hands in France, from the original paintings, under the inspection of
mons. Bologne, director of the Royal academy of painting. With maps by mons.
de Lille, and the plans and fortifications of Malta by the Chevalier de Tigne.
And a compleat index to the whole. Printed for G. Strahan, 2 Volumes, London,
1728.
Historical
Avity, Pierre d' (1573-1635): Les
Estats, empires, et principautéz du monde : représentez par
la description des pays, moeurs des habitans, richesses des provinces, les
forces, le gouvernement, la religion, et les Princes qui ont gouverné
chascun estat ; Avec l'origine de toutes les religions, et de tous les Chevaliers
et Ordres militaires.
Foster, Michael
J.: The Order of St John of Jerusalem Research Website,
http://www.knights-of-st-john.co.uk
Gottfried, Johann Ludwig (1584-1633):: Archontologiae Cosmicae, Liber
III: Origo Ordinum Militarium, tam Regularium, Frankfurt am Main, 1628
being a Latin translattion of the work of Pierre d'Avity (see above)
Gervers, Michael (Ed) The Cartulary
of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem in England, Secunda Camera, Essex.
The British Academy/Oxford University, 1982.
Pauli, Sebastiano: Codice diplomatico del sacro militare ordine
gerosolimitano, 2 volumes, Salvatore e Giandomenico Marescandoli, Lucca,
1733 (Vol.1) & 1737 (Vol.2)
Pierredon, Count Marie Henri Thierry Michel de: Histoire Politique de
l'Ordre Souverain de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem, Ordre de Malte, Volume
2, Paris 1963
Sainty, Guy Stair: The Order of Saint John, American Society of the
Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John in Jerusalem, New York 1991
Seward, Desmond:The Monks of War, Eyre Methuen, 1972.
Sire, H.J.A.: The Knights of Malta, Yale University Press, New Haven
& London, 1996
Vertot, M. l'Abbé de: Histoire des Chevaliers Hospitaliers de
Saint-Jean de Jérusalem, appelles depuis chevaliers de Rhodes,
et ensuite chevaliers de Malte. J.B. Pélagaud et Cie., Lyon, 1853