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Commandery

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Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Other uses In the Middle Ages, a commandery (rarely commandry) was the smallest administrative division of the European landed properties of a military order. It was also the name of the house where the knights of the commandery lived.[1] The word is also applied to the emoluments granted to a commander. They were the equivalent for those orders to a monastic grange. The knight in charge of a commandery was a commander.

Etymology

The word derives from French Template:Lang or Template:Lang, from mediaeval Latin Template:Lang or Template:Lang, meaning 'a trust or charge', originally one held Template:Lang.Template:Sfn [2]

Originally, commanderies were benefices, particularly in the Church, held Template:Lang. Mediaeval military orders adopted monastic organizational structures and commanderies were divisions of the Order of Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and later the Order of Teutonic Knights and other knightly orders were organized along similar lines.[2] The property of the order was divided into priorates (or priories), subdivided into bailiwicks, which in turn were divided into commanderies or Template:Lang; these were placed in charge of a Template:Lang or commander. The word is also applied to the emoluments granted to a commander of a military order of knights.Template:Sfn

A commandery of the Teutonic Knights, each headed by a Template:Lang, was known as a Template:Lang or Template:Lang. The equivalents among the Knights Templar were preceptor and preceptory.Template:Dubious In 1540, the possessions in England of the Knights Hospitaller — the commanderies to which the English term first referred — were seized as crown property.[2]

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  1. Anthony Luttrell and Greg O'Malley (eds.), The Countryside Of Hospitaller Rhodes 1306–1423: Original Texts And English Summaries (Routledge, 2019), p. 27.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "commandery | commandry, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, December 2018, https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/36962. Accessed 9 December 2018.