Gaspard de Vallier
Gaspard de Vallier | |
|---|---|
Juan de Homedes y Coscon | |
| Preceded by | Pedro Nuñez de 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
Auvergne ("Langue d'Auvergne"). In Tripoli, he commanded 30 knights and 630 Calabrian and Sicilian mercenaries.[1]
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.[2]
De Vallier was later rehabilitated by Grand Master Jean Parisot de Valette.
References
- ISBN 0520203305.
- ^ Sutherland, Alexander (1846). Achievements of the Knights of Malta. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart. p. 108.