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Roger de Moulins or Roger de Molins or Molen was the superior of L'Hospital of the order of Saint John of Jerusalem (also called the Order of Hospitallers) between January and at his death in 1187, he succeeded Joubert of Syria.

Biography

He was absolutely unknown before he was elevated to the Supreme Judiciary of the Order. P. A. Paoli made him a Norman knight from Moulins but without providing evidence that holds.

His first aid, after his installation in the Holy Land, was to exhort the regent and the principal lords of the kingdom to continue with vigour the war against Saladin. On the 17th, he took part in the battle of Montgisard alongside Baudouin IV, king of Jerusalem, where they won "the most beautiful victory of the Crusades" against Saladin.

Jealousy and competition among the great for the government of the state, during the infirmity of the king, the criminal intelligences of some lords with the infidels; All this contributed no less to Saladin's conquests than his own value and the courage of his soldiers. Like the quarrels between Bohémond III, Prince of Antioch, the Patriarch Lovery of Limoges or Guy de Lusignan to Raymond III, the Count of Tripoli.

The Hospitallers were one of the strongest military elements, but this was contrary to the spirit of the Order, removing them from the hospitality for which they were created. The pope will remind them of the observance of Raymond du Puy's rule between 1178 and 1180. A bubble of Alexander III forbids them to take up arms unless they are attacked and urges them not to neglect the care of the poor sick.

The agreement with the Templars was not a good fix. They were in permanent conflict over their rights and possessions. Pope Alexander III persuaded Roger de Moulins to make a truce in 1179 with the master of the Templars, Eudes de Saint-Amand. The pope instituted an arbitration: three brothers of each order were chosen as arbitrators, they had the right to join each other two brothers. If the arbitration was insufficient, the brothers had to appeal to persons outside the orders. If there is still a continuing disagreement, the matter will ultimately be referred to the two superiors.

On at least one point, Templars and Hospitallers agree perfectly; the grievances that the diocesan authority fed against the privileges of the orders. The secular clergy did not accept the immunities and privileges that the two orders held from the Holy See. The prelates seized, in , the council of Lateran which reformed the abuses and defended the orders to receive from the laymen of the churches and tithes without agreement of the diocesan authority and cancelled the recent gifts moderno tempore. This decision, by reforming abuses, left the privileges of orders intact. Vexé, the clergy repeated attacks and it took two bubbles, and to bring the clergy back into