Duke of Brissac
Since then, grand masters from the House of Bourbon have continued at the helm of the order, except for a short interregnum, when the grand master belonged to the French Cossé-Brissac family. That occurred in 1969 with the election of the 12th Duke of Brissac as grand master, with the approval of the Count of Paris, head of the Royal House of France, solicited by the Patriarch Maximos V Hakim.