Master of the hosptial of St John of Jerusalem 1258 - 1277
When Khan Batu and his Golden Horde were storming across Eastern Europe to lay waste to the disunited kingdoms of Christendom, a knight of St John approaching middle age set out for Northamptonshire, in England, for the Holy Land. Backed by careful research of considerable contemporary documentary evidence, this facinating book convinces the reader that Hugh Revel , Master of the Hospitaller Knights of St John at a critical period of the 13th century, was the first and possibly the only Englishman to have lead the Order before the present Grand Master, Fra' Andrew Bertie.