ABSTRACT
This chapter reveals about the master, William of Villaret, who was, incidentally, Fulks uncle, probably because in the East only a master had the right to make a brother a sergeant-at-arms in the first place. There had obviously been a debate in the chapter about whether an individual had physically to carry weapons to be a brother-at-arms and whether he returned to being a sergeant-at-service once he had surrendered them or, as in this case, had lost them. Templar sergeants could be highly educated. They included the treasurer of the Paris Temple, who was in effect the banker to the French crown, had received many brothers into the order in the early fourteenth century. The conventual sergeants, who included brothers-at-service as well, ranked as full members of their convents and had the right to vote in chapter. the Temple, and perhaps in the Hospital, there was also a lower grade of sergeantry to which individuals were directed after admission.
