Richard de Bures explained

Richard de Bures
Office1:	17th Grand Master of the Knights Templar
Term Start1:	1245
Term End1:	1247
Predecessor1:	Armand de Périgord
Successor1:	Guillaume de Sonnac
Birth Date:	Unknown
Death Date:	May 1247
Nationality:	French

Richard de Bures (? – May 1247) may have been seventeenth Grand Master of the Knights Templar, from 1245 to 1247, although many sources make no mention of him.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} It is possible he simply acted as a Master during Périgord's captivity.

Notes and References

1. Book: Barber, Malcolm . 2012 . The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple . Canto Classics . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-1076-0473-5.
2. Book: Barber, Malcolm . 2006 . The Trial of the Templars . Canto Classics . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-1076-4576-9 . 2nd.
3. Book: Madden, Thomas F. . 2013 . The Concise History of the Crusades . Critical Issues in World and International History . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers . 978-1-4422-1575-7 . 3rd.
4. Book: Tyerman, Christopher . Christopher Tyerman

   . Christopher Tyerman. 2009 . God's War: A New History of the Crusades . Belknap Press . 978-0-6740-3070-1 . 2nd.