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1882
Volume 12, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2034-3515
  • E-ISSN: 2034-3523

Abstract

The Order of Saint Lazarus was established as a monastic hospitaller order outside the walls of Jerusalem after the First Crusade. In later decades, it augmented its role by adopting a military element. To help the Order with its work, it was gifted land holdings and benefices throughout Christian Europe. After the Christian forces were expelled from the Outremer, the Order chose to settle its motherhouse in Boigny in France with regional daughter houses in Burton Lazars in England, Capua in the kingdom of Naples, Strigonia in Hungary, and Seedorf in Switzerland. The political turmoil and conflicts between the various European rulers and the kingdom of France brought about discord between the regional daughter houses and the motherhouse. This article engages with the corpus of archival sources to scrutinize the rivalry that emerged between the daughter house at Burton Lazars and the mother house at Boigny in the light of the Hundred Years’ War that arose between the ruling houses of England and France. To ensure that the English house retained its properties and to protect it from having them confiscated, the English Lazarites during the mid-fourteenth century started to distance themselves from the French mother house, a process that was to lead to full independence, making them subservient only to the Holy See and the English crown.

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