Grand-prior Definition

Grand-prior Sentence Examples

• At the early age of sixteen he attained one of the highest dignities of the order, being made grand prior of France.

• At the age of twenty-one, preferring arms to the gown, he entered the household of Henri d'Angouleme, grand prior of France, the natural son of Henry II.

• The abbe de Chateauneuf died before his godson left school, but he had already introduced him to the famous and dissipated coterie of the Temple, of which the grand prior Vendome was the head, and the poets Chaulieu and La Fare the chief literary stars.