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The Master was the ruler of the Order: late in the thirteenth century William of S. Stefano was still able to regard him as exercising direct and personal government. He had, however, always shared authority with his Convent in the East and with the Chapter General, and in the period before 1310 the balance of power altered in favour of these last two bodies.1
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© 1967 Jonathan Riley-Smith
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Riley-Smith, J. (1967). The Master, His Convent and the Chapter General. In: The Knights of St. John in Jerusalem and Cyprus, c. 1050–1310. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15241-4_10
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