Sub-commanderies in the Aragonese Province of the Templars
In the Aragonese province of the Templars, as elsewhere in the West, it was the practice for brothers to be placed in charge of sections of a convent’s lands, thus creating sub-commanderies. Those appointed usually held office for only short terms and were usually brother sergeants. But there was no...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brepols
2022
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The journal of medieval monastic studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 11, Pages: 179-196 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AF Geography of religion KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages KBH Iberian Peninsula KCA Monasticism; religious orders |
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| Summary: | In the Aragonese province of the Templars, as elsewhere in the West, it was the practice for brothers to be placed in charge of sections of a convent’s lands, thus creating sub-commanderies. Those appointed usually held office for only short terms and were usually brother sergeants. But there was no attempt to establish a uniform system: some convents had many more sub-commanderies than others; some sub-commanderies had only a brief existence, while others can be traced over long periods; the buildings in which they were based varied widely (only a few had chapels), as did the numbers of brothers and non-Templars residing in them; and the powers exercised by sub-commanders appear not always to have been the same. |
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| ISSN: | 2034-3523 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of medieval monastic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.JMMS.5.130745 |