However, the independence of the Order of Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre was maintained at the request of Emperor Maximilian and Duke Eberhard of Württemberg and confirmed in 1499 with a bull of Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503).

Tomasz de Nowina Novinski, last General of the Order[3] and Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków (1816–1830)[4] died on 4 January 1830 in Miechów (Poland).

On the other hand, Suarez and others recognise the tradition of the order, which maintains that St James, the first Bishop of Jerusalem, established clerics living in common there, where also after the Crusades flourished the "Congregation of the Holy Sepulchre".

[6] Between c.1119 and c.1125, Prior Gerard of the Holy Sepulchre, along with Warmund, Patriarch of Jerusalem, wrote a letter to Diego Gelmírez, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, reporting crop failures and threats from their enemies.

[8] By a papal bull dated 10 January 1143 and found in the Bullarium Lateranense, Pope Celestine II confirmed the church and the Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre in all the possessions they had received from Godfrey of Bouillon, King Baldwin I, and other benefactors.

[10][11][12][13][14] A fortified mansion (maison forte) in the modern village is thought to have served as Gothman's residence prior to its sale to the Church.

The priory and pilgrim visitors to the Mount and nearby River Jordan were protected by the Templar fortress of Dok at the mountain's summit.

Henry was involved in a dispute with the Canons of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre over the election of a new Latin Patriarch, and had them arrested until Joscius intervened.

They first settled briefly on Cyprus, where they established Bellapais Abbey, before proceeding to Western Europe In Spain, the village of Torralba de Ribota belonged to the mother church at Calatayud of the Canons of the Holy Sepulchre, under the protection of Pedro Manrique de Lara, Dei gratia comes, "by the grace of God count".

According to William Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum, (1655) the Canons had two houses in England, one at Holy Sepulchre Priory, Thetford and the other at Warwick.

The independence of the Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre was maintained at the request of Emperor Maximilian I and the Duke of Eberhard of Württemberg, and in 1499 with a bull of the Pope Alexander VI [1] confirmed.