Turk in 12th Century England

From: laurella <laurella2001@yahoo.com>
To: <trturk@earthlink.net>
Date: 7/5/2004

Toni,
While googling the name "Richard Turk," I ran across a
site titled "A list of Priors and Grand Priors, Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Jurisdiction of England or the British Isles." I have included the list at the bottom here. Richard Turk was the third prior, serving from 1165 to 1170 A.D. The order was apparently some kind of international Christian knightly social service group organized to help the poor. It was Catholic in this Richard's time. I don't know whether or not it opened up to Protestants during the Protestant Reformation in England. The group still exists today and apparently supports hospitals, etc. It was organized in England in Kent County, where one cluster of Turks of English background originated.

Google: "Jurisdiction of England or the British Isles" to find the list. The website address for the whole colorful site is www2.prestel.co.uk>church/oosj/priors, but I had trouble finding the prior list itself that way.

Laurella

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TABLE 1A. ENGLISH LANGUE.

Priors and Grand Priors of England,
Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

Walter c1144-c1150

Roger Simple c1150-1178

Richard Turk 1165-1170

Ralph of Dyve 1178-1181

Garnier de Naplouse 1185-1190

Alan 1190-1195

Gilbert de Vere 1195

Robert Fitx Richard 1197

William de Villiers 1199-1202

Robert the Treasurer 1204-1214

Henry of Arundel 1215-1216

Hugh Dawnay 1216-1221

Robert of Dynham 1223-1234

Theodore de Nussa 1235-1247

Robert of Maunby 1247-1250

Elias of Smeaton 1253-1256

Robert of Maunby 1257-1262

Roger de Vere 1265-1272

Joseph de Chauncy 1273-1280

William of Henley 1281-1290

Peter de Hakenham 1290-1297

Richard de Penley 1307-1310