The picture across the water. The foundation of Templar and Hospitaller houses in Britain and Ireland in the twelfth century.

Nicholson, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1715-1246 2023. The picture across the water. The foundation of Templar and Hospitaller houses in Britain and Ireland in the twelfth century. Bandlien, Bjørn, ed. Jerusalem in Viken, Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, pp. 177-192.

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Abstract

This chapter sets out to offer a wider context for the establishment of the Hospitallers’ house at Værne/Varna, by considering the foundation of Templar and Hospitaller houses in Britain and Ireland and their connections to kings and aristocrats in the latter half of the twelfth century. These military religious orders arrived in Britain in the 1120s as the subject of royal and non-royal patronage, but did not reach Ireland until the 1170s. While the Templars seem to have relied on royalty for their initial acquisitions, the Hospitallers had a wider pool of patronage. That said, by the late twelfth century both orders were drawing on a wide pool of patronage in England, but in Wales, Ireland and Scotland their main acquisitions continued to come from prominent nobles and the Crown. I argue that the orders’ foundations depended not only on who was willing to donate but also whether the orders wanted to accept what was offered.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Templars, Hospitallers, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, lordship, religious patronage
Additional Information:	The book and chapters are available open access to download.
Publisher:	Cappelen Damm Akademisk
ISBN:	9788202798406
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	6 March 2024
Last Modified:	06 Mar 2024 15:34
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/157197

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