Odo de St Amand (or Eudes or Odon) was Grand Master of the Knights Templar. The Seal of the Knights — the two riders have been interpreted as a sign of poverty or the duality of monk/soldier. ...
Odo came from a family from the Limousin. He was marshal of Jerusalem and later viscount. In 1157, during the siege of the Christian town of Banias near the source of the Jordan, he was taken prisoner along with then-master Bertrand de Blanchefort, during the disastrous fight that followed. Capital Limoges Area 16,942 km² Regional President Jean-Paul Denanot Population - 2004 estimate - 1999 census - Density 710,939 42/km² Arrondissements 8 Cantons 106 Communes 747 Départements Corrèze Creuse Haute-Vienne Limousin is a former province of France and now a region of France, around the city... There were six major officers of the Kingdom of Jerusalem: constable, marshal, seneschal, chamberlain, butler, and chancellor. ... Events Births September 8 - King Richard I of England (died 1199) Leopold V of Austria (died 1194) Hojo Masako, wife of Minamoto no Yoritomo (died 1225) Deaths August 21 - Alfonso VII, king of Castile (born 1105) Agnes of Babenberg, daughter of Leopold III of Austria Sweyn III of Denmark Yury... For the city in northwestern Syria, see Baniyas For information on the processor formerly codenamed Banias, please see Centrino The spring at Banyas - one of the three sources of the Jordan river The remains of the city of Banias (Arabic pronunciation of Panias) are located at the foot of Mt. ... Bertrand de Blanchefort or Blanquefort (c. ...
The construction of the Templar fortress at Jacob's Ford on the upper Jordan led to a fresh Saracen invasion and the disastrous namesake battle (1179), from which the young king Baldwin IV and the True Cross escaped with difficulty, while Odo de St Amand, the Grand Master, was carried away captive and never returned. Events Third Council of the Lateran condemned Waldensians and Cathars as heretics, institutes a reformation of clerical life, and creates the first ghettos for Jews Afonso I is recognized as the true King of Portugal by Portugal the protection of the Catholic Church against the Castillian monarchy Philip II is... Baldwin IV (1161 – 1185), the son of Amalric I of Jerusalem and his first wife Agnes of Courtenay, was king of Jerusalem from 1174 to 1185. ... According to Christian tradition, the True Cross is the cross upon which Jesus was crucified. ...
Odo de St Amand was succeeded as Grand Master by Arnold de Torroge.
ODODE THE Master, Philip of Naplous, resigned his authority after a short government of three years, and was succeeded by Brother OdodeSt. Amand, a proud and fiery warrior, of undaunted courage and resolution; having, according to William, Archbishop of Tyre, the fear neither of God nor of man before his eyes.
ODODE opponent than any they had hitherto encountered in the field, one who was again to cause the crescent to triumph over the cross, and to plant the standard of the prophet upon the walls of the holy city.
ODODE souls of the religious brethren, if they were to be mixed up with a crowd of secular persons, and be brought into the company of women on the occasion of their going to church.
Its founders were a Burgundian knight named Hugues de Payns (Hugo de Paganis) and Godeffroi deSt Omer, a knight from northern France, who in 1119 undertook the pious task of protecting the pilgrims who, after the first crusade, flocked to Jerusalem and the other sacred spots in the Holy Land.
Odo refused to yield the chief culprit, though he was well known, and invoked the protection of the pope.
OdodeStAmand was succeeded by Arnold de Torroge, who died at Verona on his way to implore European succour for the Holy Land.
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