Gaspard de Vallier
Gaspard de Vallier | |
|---|---|
| Governor of Tripoli | |
| In office 1549 – 15 August 1551 | |
| Appointed by | Juan de Homedes y Coscon |
| Preceded by | Pedro Nuñez Herrera |
| Succeeded by | Murad Agha (as Pasha of Tripoli) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Auvergne, France |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Order of Saint John |
| Battles/wars | Siege of Tripoli (1551) |
Gaspar de Vallier was a Marshall of the Knights of Malta, who was in command of the fortress of Tripoli during the Siege of Tripoli (1551). He was French, from the region of Auvergne ("Langue d'Auvergne"). In Tripoli, he commanded 30 knights (some authors say 200)[1] and 630 Calabrian and Sicilian mercenaries.[2] The city was captured on 15 August 1551.
Upon his return to Malta, Gaspar de Vallier was heavily criticized by the Grand Master de Homedes, brought in front of a tribunal, and stripped from the habit and cross of the Order.[3]
De Vallier was later rehabilitated by Grand Master Jean Parisot de Valette.
References
- ^ Setton, Kenneth M. (1984). The Papacy and the Levant (1204–1571) - Volume III: The Sixteenth Century to the Reign of Julius III. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. p. 555. ISBN 0871691612.
- ^ Braudel, Fernand (1995). The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II - Volume II. London: University of California Press Ltd. p. 920. ISBN 0520203305.
- ^ Sutherland, Alexander (1846). Achievements of the Knights of Malta. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart. p. 108.