Robert de Juliac

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Robert de Juliac (also Robert de Juilly, Robertus Iuliacensis, Robertus de Iuli; † 29 July 1377) was a French nobleman and from 1374 until his death in 1377 the 31st Grand Master of the Order of St. John.

He came from the family of the lords of Juilly in the Île-de-France, a secondary line of the Montmorency noble family (see Montmorency tribe).

Since 1363 he was Grand Prior of the Order of St. John in France and was elected in 1374 after the death of Raymond Berenger as his successor as Grand Master.

His tenure was marked by the unsuccessful attempt of Pope Innocent VI to reform the Order, in particular, he intervened many times in the filling of administrative posts for the European religious branches. These and other effects led to corruption and undiscipline in the European branches, which severely hindered the Order’s military ability to act on Rhodes. Thus, the Order was not able to assist King Peter I of Cyprus against the attacks of the Genoese in 1374, nor to protect King Leon VI of Armenia Minor from the conquest of his country by the Mamluks in 1375, nor to support the Catalans in Thebes and Athens against the Turks in 1376.

Literature
Pierre d’Avity / Johann Ludwig Gottfried: Archontologiae Cosmicae. Book III, Frankfurt am Main 1628, p. 38 (online here)

Weblinks
Robert de Juillac at cilialacorte.com
Robert de Juilly at smom-za.org
The 79 Grand Masters at orderofmalta.org

Individual evidence

Family member of the noble family Montmorency
Grand Master of the Order of Malta
Knights (Middle Ages)
Person (Rhodos)
French
Born in the 14th century
Died in 1377
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