The Templars, the Hospitallers and the Crusades by Helen J. Nicholson Jochen Burgtorf

Author:Helen J. Nicholson, Jochen Burgtorf [Helen J. Nicholson, Jochen Burgtorf]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367496876
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

Situated roughly ten kilometres directly south-west of Rhodes town and 270 metres above the sea which it overlooked, Mount Filerimos had once been the Hellenistic city of Ialysos. By the thirteenth century the site, by then known as Filerimos, had become a Byzantine settlement which at one point included at least one monastery.5 It was apparently defensible in about 1249,6 and it was still able to repulse the invading Hospitallers late in 1306 when it could only be taken through treachery. Inside it there were reportedly 300 Turks who were killed, while the Greek population fled to the churches, of which there were two or more; the Hospitallers expelled those inside the castle and largely demolished the settlement, retaining only the inner castle at the eastern end of the plateau.7 In 1342 Manuel Angelos visited Rhodes and was shown the ruins of three towns, including Filerimos, reporting,

With respect to the old towns, some of them disappeared because of earthquakes and the best of them was Rhodes, which has the same name as the island. Local people showed us some remnants of them. Those towns which have survived remain standing majestically in splendour. They are, as I personally ascertained from their remains, Lindos, Ialysos and the radiant Cameiros.

He added that Cameiros had been mentioned by Homer.8

5 M. Livadiotti and G. Rocco, La presenza italiana nel Dodecaneso tra il 1912 e il 1948: la ricerca archeologica, la conservazione, le scelte progettuali (Catania, 1996), pp. 267–70.

6 Georgios Akropolites, The History: Introduction, Translation and Commentary, ed. R. Macrides (Oxford, 2007), pp. 246–8.

7 A. Luttrell, The Town of Rhodes: 1306–1356 (Rhodes, 2003), pp. 171, 193, 195, 220. Chroniques d’Amadi et de Strambaldi, ed. R. de Mas Latrie, vol. 1 (Paris, 1891), pp. 257–8, gives the date of the capture as 11 November; if the letter from Cyprus of 30 April mentioning the fall of Jueus or Yueus referred to Ialysos, the year of its capture was, as would have been most likely, 1306: Luttrell, Town, p. 171.

8 Nicephorus Gregoras, Historiae Byzantinae, ed. I. Bekker, vol. 3 (Bonn, 1855), pp. 11–12; cf. Luttrell, Town, 219–21.

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