Bertrand de Comps

Bertrand de Comps (died 1239 or 1240) was the seventeenth Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller from 1236 until his death after 1239.

[1] De Comps appears for the first time in the archives of the order as a simple brother and dates from February 1216 in the Holy Land.

They seem at least twice to have thought of negotiating an alliance with the enemies of the Franks of the Holy Land, the Ayyubids.

Pope Gregory IX accused them of wanting to come to an understanding with the Assassins against Bohemond V of Antioch with whom they were in open hostilities.

[4] Gregory IX formulated the threat of excommunication towards the Hospitallers and the Templars on 29 April 1236.