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Dieudonné de Gozon

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Dieudonné de Gozon
Tombstone of Dieudonné de Gozon, Rhodes. Musée de Cluny.

Dieudonné de Gozon was the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes from 1346 to 1353. He was born to a noble family in Languedoc, France. He carried the nickname Extinctor Draconis, which means "The Dragon Slayer" in Latin.

In 1347 and 1348, Gozon led his order in a march to aid King Constantine V of Armenia, who was threatened by the army of the Sultan of Egypt.

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The Dragon of Rhodes

A story tells of a dragon in the island of Rhodes, Greece, hiding in the local swamp and killing the cattle of the local farmers. Despite the orders of the previous Grand Master not to disturb the beast, Gozon slew the dragon and hung the head on one of the seven gates of the medieval town of Rhodes. The head was on display until around 1837, when it was disposed of by workers responsible for repairing the castle.[citation needed]

However, the Museum of the Order of St. John, in a 2015 article, states that there is no mention by any author of such a trophy on display before a 17th-century travelogue, which was written centuries after the head was supposedly hung on a gate at Rhodes.[1] Historian Frederick William Hasluck suggests that Gozon's participation in a then-common Rogation festival, in which a facsimile of a dragon was "slain" to represent defeat of a symbolic "Spirit of Evil," may have evolved over time into a story where Gozon slew an actual, living dragon.[2]

References

  1. ^ Ward, Alec (August 18, 2015). "Wednesday Talks – "Gozon The Dragon Slayer"". Museum of the Order of St. John. Museum of the Order of St. John. Retrieved April 8, 2024. A head supposed to be that of the dragon slain by de Gozon was seen by the seventeenth century traveller, Thevenot, hung up in one of the gateways of Rhodes. However, there is no mention of this head being hung on a gate by Bosio or any earlier writer than Thevenot.
  2. ^ Hasluck, Frederick W. "Dieudonné de Gozon and the Dragon of Rhodes." Annual of the British School at Athens 20 (1914), 70-79.
  • Pavlidis, Vangelis. Rhodes, A Story 1306 - 1522. Rhodes: Kasseris Publications. ISBN 960-90194-7-1
  • Hasluck, Frederick W. "Dieudonné de Gozon and the Dragon of Rhodes." Annual of the British School at Athens 20 (1914), 70-79.
Preceded by Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
1346–1353 		Succeeded by
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