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Hélion de Villeneuve

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Name
  
Helion Villeneuve


Role
  
Grand Master

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Died
  
1346, Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece

Hélion de Villeneuve (c. 1270 – 1346) was a French-born Grand Master of the Knights of St. John. He was the brother of Saint Roseline.

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He died on the island of Rhodes.

The blazon of his coat-of-arms was Gules six tilting spears in fretty, in-between the spears semy of escutcheons, all or.

There is a legend told of Hélion involving a dragon and a young knight.

References

Hélion de Villeneuve Wikipedia