The Order, under the leadership of Foulques…
1319 CE
Other islands were also taken, including Kastellórizo and Bodrum.
The Hospitallers then moved their headquarters to Rhodes.
However, despite the huge benefits to his Order from the suppression of the Knights Templar (the Templars' assets had been assigned to the Hospitallers by the Pope in 1312), Villaret's campaigns of territorial expansion have run the Order heavily into debt (these debts will not be paid off until the mid-1330s.
Villaret seems to have been a difficult and overbearing man, and eventually alienated his Order.
Allegations were made of increasingly arrogant, even tyrannical, behavior, although none of the allegations are specific, and one Italian account of the lives of the Grand Masters claims that he was treated unjustly.
The Order had attempted a coup against Villaret in 1317.
A group of knights had gone to assassinate him at his residence at Rhodini, but his chamberlain had aided his escape to the Hospitaller castle at Lindos, where he was besieged by his own Order, ...
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