After leaving Jerusalem in the late twelfth century, the Hospitaller headquarters remained in Acre until their move to Cyprus in the late thirteenth century. The French-language works produced by the Hospitallers at this time included:

diplomatic texts;
 
adminitrative texts emanating from their organization;

translations of texts into French from several other languages for use within the order.

Click on the above links for examples of Hospitaller Texts from Acre.

Bibliography

Anthony Luttrell, "The Hospitallers' Early Written Records,"in The Crusades and their Sources: Essays presented to Bernard Hamilton,ed. J. France and W.G. Zajac, Aldershot, 1998, 135-54.

Mas Latrie, Louis de., Ed. Histoire de l’Isle de Chypre sous le règne des princes de la maison de Lusignan (Paris, Imprimerie Nationale,1852):

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