Claude de la Sengle

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Claude de la Sengle
Juan de Homedes y Coscon
Succeeded byJean Parisot de Valette
Personal details
Born1494
Capture of Mehdia

Fra' Claude de la Sengle (1494 – 18 August 1557) was the 48th

Order of Malta, from 1553 to his death in 1557. His successor was Fra' Jean Parisot de Valette
.

A native Frenchman, Sengle, then

Turgut Reis, and particularly in the struggles for Djerba and Tripoli
.

Coat of arms of Senglea, based on the personal arms of Claude de la Sengle.

Sengle had considerable impact on the military strengthening of Malta, notably by initiating in 1554 the development of the city of

Juan de Homedes y Coscon
.

Later on,

Juan de Vega, to destroy it to prevent Muslim occupation.[2]
Vega did burn Mehdia, but he retaliated against Malta for not accepting the city and prohibited exportation of wheat to the island. To combat this, Sengle brought the engineer Vincenzo Vogo to Malta to upgrade the mills so that the population would not starve.

The

Valletta tornado probably occurred during Sengle's reign in 1555 or 1556, although some sources say that it occurred in 1551. According to some sources, four galleys named Santa Fè, San Michele, San Filippo, and San Claudio capsized in the tornado and help arrived from abroad for the Order to acquire new galleys to replace them. In 1557, Prior François de Lorena commanded five of the Order's galleys and they engaged a Muslim fleet off Rhodes. They were defeated, and many people died. The remaining galleys arrived at the Grand Harbour on 17 June, and Sengle and many others wept when they heard about the loss of loved ones.[3]

After this defeat, Sengle's health deteriorated, and he retreated to

St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta.[5]

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Claude de la Sengle (GM 48).
  1. ^ "Sovereign Military Order of Malta - Grandmaster Claude de la Sengle". Flags of the World. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  2. ISBN 9789004097919
    .
  3. ^ Abela, Joe. "Claude de la Sengle (1494 - 1557)". Senglea Local Council. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  4. ^ "Claude De La Sengle : 1553-1557". San Andrea School. Archived from the original on 6 July 2007. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  5. ISBN 9780754662907
    . Retrieved 21 September 2014.

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Preceded by
Juan de Homedes y Coscon
Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

1553–1557 		Succeeded by
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