Grand Master succession
The information below follows recent research and published in "Templar Succession : Establishing Continuity 1307-Present" by Chevalier Daniel J. Clausen (Grand Historian of the OSMTJ), published in October 2021. Copies are available on-line (Amazon).
Old Order
1118-1136 Hugues de Payens
1136-1149 Robert de Craon
1149-1152 Everard des Barres
1152-1153 Bernard de Tremalai
1153-1156 Andrew de Montbard
1156-1169 Bertrand de Blanchefort
1169-1171 Philip de Naplous
1171-1179 Odon de St. Amand
1180-1184 Amaud de Toroge
1185-1189 Gerard de Ridefort
1191-1193 Robert de Sable
1194-1200 Gilbert Erail
1201-1209 Philippe de le Plessis
1210-1219 Guillaume de Chartres
1219-1232 Pierre de Montaigue
1232-1244 Armand de Perigord
1244-1247 Richard de Bures
1247-1250 Guillaume de Sonnac
1250-1256 Renaud de Vichiers
1256-1273 Thomas Berard
1273-1291 Guillaume de Beaujeau
1291-1293 Thibaud Gaudin
1294-1314 Jacques de Molay
According to the L'Armenius Charter
1314-1324 Jean Marc Larmenius
1324-1340 Theobald of Alexandria
1340-1349 Arnold de Braque
1349-1357 John de Claremont
1357-1381 Bertrand du Gueselin
1381-1392 John Arminiacus
1391-1419 Bernard Arminiacus
1419-1452 John Arminiacus
1451-1472 John de Croy
1472-1478 Bernard Imbault
1478-1497 Robert de Lenoncourt
1497-1516 Galeatius de Salazae
1516-1544 Phippe Chabot
1544-1574 Gaspard de Galtiaco Tavanensis
1574-1615 Charles de Valois
1651-1681 James Ruxellius de Granceio
1681-1705 Jacques Henri de Durfort, Duke of Duras
1705-1723 Phillippe II, Duke of Orleans
1724-1737 Louis-Augustus Bourbon
1737-1741 Louis-Henri Bourbon Conde
1741-1776 Louis-Francois Boubon Conti
1776-1792 Louis-Hercule Timoleon, Duke of Cosse Brissac
1792-1804 Claude-Mathieu Radix de Chavillon (Regent)
Ordre du Temple
1804 -1813 Bernard Raymond Fabre-Palaprat
1813 -1827 Charles Antoine Gabriel, Duke of Choiseul
Charles Louis de Peletier, Count of Aunay
1827 -1838 Bernard Raymond Fabre-Palaprat
1839 -1840 Sir William Sidney Smith (Regent)
1840 -1850 Jean-Marie Raoul
1850 -1866 Narcisse Valleray (Regent)
1866 -1877 Dr A.G.M. Vernois (Regent)
1892 - 1894 Joséphin Péladan (Regent)
1894 -1932 Secretariat International des Templiers (KUMRIS)
Ordre Souverain et Militaire du Temple de Jérusalem (OSMTJ)
1932 - 1935 Council of Regency – Joseph
Vandenberg
1935 - 1935 Theodore Covias (Regent)
1935 - 1942 Emile-Clement Joseph Isaac Vandenberg (Regent)
1942 - 1960 Antoine Campello Pinto de Sousa Fontes
1960 - 1970 Fernando Campello Pinto de Sousa Fontes (Regent)
1970 - 1989 General Antoine Zdrowjewski
1989 - 1994 Georges Lamirand
1994 - 2020 Dr Nicolas Haimovici Hastier (Regent)
2020 - today Brigadier General (US Army Retd) Ronald S. Mangum PhD JD
Ordre du Temple de Jérusalem (OTJ) (Whom God preserve)
2023 - today Brigadier General (US Army Retd) Ronald S. Mangum PhD JD
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Recent Grand Master
Antoine Campello Pinto de Sousa Fontes
PRESENT GRAND MASTER
Brigadier General Ronald S. Mangum [US Army (Retd)]
Non nobis Domine non nobis sed Nomini Tuo da gloriam
Not unto us O Lord not unto us but to your Name give glory
[Psalm 115: verse1]
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