Arnaud de Toroge
Arnaud de Toroge (of Torroja) is Master of the Ordre of Templiers of 1180 until the September 30th 1184.
The Catalan Arnaud de Toroge is Master of the province of Provence and Aragon when he is elected with the head of the Order to the end of the year 1180, to succeed Eudes de Saint-Amand, died in captivity with Damas.
He has more than 70 years at the time of his election, but it is a man broken with the discipline and the operation of the Order. Present especially in Spain during the Reconquista, he does not know, or very badly, the political situation of the Latin States of the East.
Its control is marked by quarrels that between them Templiers and Hospitaliers are delivered, whose influence and capacity policies do not cease growing. Arnaud de Toroge accepts the mediation of the pope Lucius III and the king de Jérusalem Baudouin IV to put a term at these fratricidal quarrels.
Into 1184, the political situation still degenerates when Renaud de Châtillon, helped by of Templiers and Hospital, devastation for its own account of the Moslem territories in Transjordanie. It will have to still show a great political wisdom to manage to negotiate a cessation of hostilities with Saladin, ready to avenge the incursions mortals for Renaud de Châtillon.
This year, Arnaud de Toroje and the Master of the Hospital go in Europe in order to plead, near the King S and of the Pape, the sending of a new crusade to reinforce the Latin States of the East which are at the thank you of the growing power of Saladin, the reunificator of the Muslim world. During this voyage, Arnaud de Toroge falls ill and dies in Vérone the September 30th 1184, whereas it goes to the pope Lucius III.
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