The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

THE NAME DUPUY IN FRANCE. 89
the first to assume the title of Grand Master Chap. i.
of the Knights Hospitallers. This order
derived its name from a hospital in the city of
Jerusalem, consecrated to St. John the Baptist,
and its object was to receive and care for
the needy and sick \dsitants of that city.
After the establishment of the kingdom of
Jerusalem by Godfrey of Bouillon, the hospital
acquired larger revenues than were
requisite for the relief of the poor and sick,
and Raymond Dupuy about 1120, with his
brethern, offered to the king of Jerusalem to
the Mohammedans at his own
make war upon
expense. The king and Roman pontiffs approving
the plan, the order then partook of a
military character, and its members were divided
into three classes— Knights, or soldiers of
noble birth, whose business was to fight for re-
ligion, priests, who conducted the religious
exercises, and serving brefhren, who were
soldiers of ignoble birth. The order exhibited
the greatest feats of valor; twice repulsed the
advancing Turks; was supported by landed
property in all parts of Europe, and acquired
immense wealth, under the auspices of Raymond
Dupuy, who died in 1160.
The badge, which all the crusaders wore on Badge of
their right shoulders, was the sign of the ^^^^
cross, made of white, red, or green woolen
cloth, and solemnly consecrated. That badge
not only gave rise to the name Crusade^ but
it also indicated that the enterprise was to
rescue the cross of our Lord from the hands
of the Mohammedans. The shield which the
Dupuys bore in that enterprise, w^as adorned shields,
with a red rampant lion, with blue tongue and
claws, upon a field of gold. The shield of the