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===Armenian campaigns (1298-1299)=== In 1298 or 1299, the military orders—the [[Knights Templar]] and [[Knights Hospitaller]]—and their leaders, including Jacques de Molay, [[Otton de Grandson]] and the Great Master of the Hospitallers, briefly campaigned in Armenia, in order to fight off an invasion by the Mamluks.<ref>Demurger, p.142-143</ref><ref>[[Hayton of Corycus]] mentions "Otton de Grandson and the Masters of the Temple and of the Hospitallers as well as their convents, who were at that time [1298 or 1299] in these regions [Cilician Armenia]", quoted in Demurger, p.116</ref><ref>Newman, p. 231, that says that De Molay had an "ill-fated expedition to Armenia around 1299, in which the last Templar holding in that kingdom was lost."</ref> However, they were not successful, and soon, the fortress of [[Roche-Guillaume]] in the [[Belen, Turkey|Belen pass]], the last Templar stronghold in Antioch, was lost to the Muslims.<ref name=demurger-142>Demurger, p.142</ref>
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