List of Princes and Grand Masters of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Coat of arms of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Incumbent

Matthew Festing since 11 March 2008
Details
Style	His Most Eminent Highness
First monarch	Blessed Gerard Thom
Formation	1099
Residence	Palazzo Malta Villa del Priorato di Malta
Website	orderofmalta.int

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Coat of Arms of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes in Rhodes
Used as the GM's Palace from the 14th century to 1522

Fort Saint Angelo in Birgu
Used as the GM's Palace from 1530 to 1571

Grandmaster's Palace in Valletta
Used as the GM's Palace from 1571 to 1798

This is a list of Princes and Grand Masters of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta including their medieval predecessors of the Knights Hospitaller, starting with the founder Blessed Gerard Thom (established in 1099 and given papal recognition in 1113 by Paschal II).

Knights Hospitaller

Title	Name	Time in office	Headquarters
1st Grand Master	Blessed Gerard	1099/1113–1118/20	Kingdom of Jerusalem
2nd Grand Master	Raymond du Puy de Provence	1118/21/23–1160
3rd Grand Master	Auger de Balben	1160–1163
4th Grand Master	Arnaud de Comps	1162–1163
5th Grand Master	Gilbert d'Aissailly	1163–1170
6th Grand Master	Gastone de Murols	c. 1170–1172
7th Grand Master	Jobert of Syria	1172–1177
8th Grand Master	Roger de Moulins	1177–1187
9th Grand Master	Armengol de Aspa^[1]	1187–1190
10th Grand Master	Garnier de Nablus	1190–1192
11th Grand Master	Geoffroy de Donjon	1193–1202
12th Grand Master	Afonso de Portugal	1202–1206
13th Grand Master	Geoffrey le Rat	1206–1207
14th Grand Master	Guérin de Montaigu	1207–1228
15th Grand Master	Bertrand de Thercy	1228–1231
16th Grand Master	Guerin de Montacute	1231–1236
17th Grand Master	Bertrand de Comps	1236–1240
18th Grand Master	Pierre de Vielle-Bride	1240–1242
19th Grand Master	Guillaume de Chateauneuf	1242–1258
20th Grand Master	Hugues de Revel	1258–1277
21st Grand Master	Nicolas Lorgne	1277–1284
22nd Grand Master	Jean de Villiers	1284–1294	Cyprus
23rd Grand Master	Odon de Pins	1294–1296
24th Grand Master	Guillaume de Villaret	1296–1305
25th Grand Master	Foulques de Villaret	1305–1319	Rhodes
Anti-Grand Master	Maurice de Pagnac (unrecognized)	1317–1319
26th Grand Master	Hélion de Villeneuve	1319–1346
27th Grand Master	Dieudonné de Gozon	1346–1353
28th Grand Master	Pierre de Corneillan	1353–1355
29th Grand Master	Roger de Pins	1355–1365
30th Grand Master	Raymond Berengar	1365–1374
31st Grand Master	Robert de Juilly	1374–1376
32nd Grand Master	Juan Fernández de Heredia	1376–1396
33rd Grand Master	Riccardo Caracciolo^[2]	1383–1395
34th Grand Master	Philibert de Naillac	1396–1421
35th Grand Master	Anton Flavian de Ripa	1421–1437
36th Grand Master	Jean de Lastic	1437–1454
37th Grand Master	Jacques de Milly	1454–1461
38th Grand Master	Piero Raimondo Zacosta	1461–1467
39th Grand Master	Giovanni Battista Orsini	1467–1476
40th Grand Master	Pierre d'Aubusson	1476–1503
41st Grand Master	Emery d'Amboise	1503–1512
42nd Grand Master	Guy de Blanchefort	1512–1513
43rd Grand Master	Fabrizio del Carretto	1513–1521

Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Title	Name	Time in office	Headquarters
44th Grand Master	Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam	1521–1534	Malta
45th Grand Master	Piero de Ponte	1534–1535
46th Grand Master	Didier de Saint-Jaille	1535–1536
47th Grand Master	Juan de Homedes y Coscon	1536–1553
48th Grand Master	Claude de la Sengle	1553–1557
49th Grand Master	Jean Parisot de Valette	1557–1568
50th Grand Master	Pierre de Monte	1568–1572
51st Grand Master	Jean de la Cassière	1572–1581
Lieutenant	Mathurin Romegas	1577-1581
Anti-Grand Master	Mathurin Romegas	1581
52nd Grand Master	Hugues Loubenx de Verdalle	1581–1595
53rd Grand Master	Martin Garzez	1595–1601
54th Grand Master	Alof de Wignacourt	1601–1622
55th Grand Master	Luís Mendes de Vasconcellos	1622–1623
56th Grand Master	Antoine de Paule	1623–1636
57th Grand Master	Giovanni Paolo Lascaris	1636–1657
58th Grand Master	Martin de Redin	1657–1660
59th Grand Master	Annet de Clermont-Gessant	1660-1660
60th Grand Master	Raphael Cotoner	1660–1663
61st Grand Master	Nicolas Cotoner	1663–1680
62nd Grand Master	Gregorio Carafa	1680–1690
63rd Grand Master	Adrien de Wignacourt	1690–1697
64th Grand Master	Ramon Perellos y Roccaful	1697–1720
65th Grand Master	Marc'Antonio Zondadari	1720–1722
66th Grand Master	António Manoel de Vilhena	1722–1736
67th Grand Master	Ramon Despuig	1736–1741
68th Grand Master	Manuel Pinto da Fonseca	1741–1773
69th Grand Master	Francisco Ximenes de Texada	1773–1775
70th Grand Master	Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc	1775–1797
71st Grand Master	Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim	1797–1799
72nd Grand Master de facto	Paul I of Russia	1798–1801	Saint Petersburg
Lieutenant de facto	Nikolay Saltykov	1801–1803	Saint Petersburg
73rd Grand Master	Giovanni Battista Tommasi	1803–1805	Messina and Catania
Lieutenant	Innico Maria Guevara-Suardo	1805–1814	Catania
Lieutenant	Andrea Di Giovanni y Centellés	1814–1821	Catania
Lieutenant	Antoine Busca	1821–1834	Ferrara
Lieutenant	Carlo Candida	1834–1845	Rome
Lieutenant	Filippo di Colloredo-Mels	1845–1864
Lieutenant	Alessandro Borgia	1865–1871
Lieutenant	Giovanni Battista Ceschi a Santa Croce	1871–1879
74th Grand Master	Giovanni Battista Ceschi a Santa Croce	1879–1905
75th Grand Master	Galeas von Thun und Hohenstein	1905–1931
76th Grand Master	Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere	1931–1951
Lieutenant	Antonio Hercolani Fava Simonetti	1951–1955
Lieutenant	Ernesto Paternò Castello di Carcaci	1955–1962
77th Grand Master	Angelo de Mojana di Cologna	1962–1988
Lieutenant ad interim	Jean Charles Pallavicini	1988
78th Grand Master	Andrew Bertie	1988–2008
Lieutenant ad interim	Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto	2008
79th Grand Master	Matthew Festing	2008–present

Notes

↑ Provisor, i.e. Overseer
↑ Rival Grand Master

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By region
or entity

Africa	Lesotho Morocco Swaziland

Asia	Bahrain Bhutan Brunei Cambodia Japan Jordan Kuwait Malaysia Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia Thailand United Arab Emirates

Europe	Andorra Belgium Denmark Luxembourg Liechtenstein Monaco Netherlands Norway Sovereign Military Order of Malta Spain Sweden Vatican City

Oceania	Tonga

Commonwealth	Antigua and Barbuda Australia Bahamas Barbados Belize Canada Grenada Jamaica New Zealand Cook Islands Niue Papua New Guinea Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Solomon Islands Tuvalu United Kingdom

Heads of state and government of Europe

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UN members and observers	Albania Andorra Armenia¹ Austria Azerbaijan¹ Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus¹ Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia¹ Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan¹ Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russian Federation¹ San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Sovereign Military Order of Malta Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey¹ Ukraine United Kingdom Vatican City

Partially recognised²	Abkhazia¹ Kosovo Northern Cyprus¹ South Ossetia¹

Unrecognised states³	Nagorno-Karabakh¹ Transnistria

Former countries	Czechoslovakia East Germany Soviet Union¹ Yugoslavia

Heads of
government

UN members and observers	Albania Andorra Armenia¹ Austria Azerbaijan¹ Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus¹ Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia¹ Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan¹ Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russian Federation¹ San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Sovereign Military Order of Malta Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey¹ Ukraine United Kingdom Vatican City

Partially recognised²	Abkhazia¹ Kosovo Northern Cyprus¹ South Ossetia¹

Unrecognised states³	Nagorno-Karabakh¹ Transnistria

Former countries	Czechoslovakia East Germany Soviet Union¹ Yugoslavia

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2. Recognised by at least one United Nations member.
3. Not recognised by any United Nations members.

Sovereign Military Order of Malta topics

Roman Catholic chivalric order and sovereign subject of international law, founded in 1099 in Jerusalem,

Kingdom of Jerusalem

Organisation

Auxiliaries

Malteser International
Military Corps: Air Force (Historically: Navy)

Culture

Society

History,
including
major
territories,
premises,
and battles
of the
Knights
Hospitaller

Rome

Palazzo Malta (capital) (1869)
Villa del Priorato di Malta (1869)

Malta

Fortifications	Birgu ( Fort St. Angelo (2001)) Senglea (Fort St. Michael)^ Mdina Valletta (Fort St. Elmo) Cittadella Floriana Lines Santa Margherita Lines Cottonera Lines Fort Ricasoli Fort Manoel Fort Chambray Fort Tigné others

Palaces	Grand Master's Palace Palazzo Vilhena Verdala Palace San Anton Palace

Churches	Church of Saint Lawrence Conventual Church of Saint John

Auberges in Birgu	Auberge d'Allemagne^ Auberge d'Angleterre Auberge d'Aragon Auberge d'Auvergne et Provence Auberge de Castille et Portugal Auberge de France Auberge d'Italie^

Auberges in Valletta	Auberge d'Allemagne^ Auberge d'Aragon Auberge d'Auvergne^ Auberge de Bavière Auberge de Castille Auberge de France^ Auberge d'Italie Auberge de Provence

Caribbean

Saint Kitts (1651-1665)
Saint Martin (1651-1665)
Saint Barthélemy (1651-1665)
Saint Croix (1660-1665)

Rhodes

Holy Land

Military
history

Crusades	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th

Battles	Siege of Jerusalem (1187) Battle of Arsuf (1191) Siege of Acre (1291) Siege of Rhodes (1480) Siege of Rhodes (1522) Invasion of Gozo (1551) Siege of Tripoli (1551) Great Siege of Malta (1565) Battle of Lepanto (1571) French invasion of Malta (1798)

Extant extraterritoriality (with year of proclamation)
World Heritage Site, UNESCO
^ Demolished or sparse remains
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List of Princes and Grand Masters of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Knights Hospitaller

Sovereign Military Order of Malta

See also

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