Gaspard de Vallier explained

Gaspard de Vallier
Office:Governor of Tripoli
Term Start:April 1551
Term End:15 August 1551
Appointed:Juan de Homedes y Coscon
Predecessor:Pedro Nuñez de Herrera
Successor:Murad Agha (as Pasha of Tripoli)
Birth Place:Auvergne, France
Nationality:French
Allegiance: Order of Saint John
Battles: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 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.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Braudel. Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II - Volume II. 1995. University of California Press Ltd. London. 0520203305. 920.
  2. Book: Sutherland. Alexander. Achievements of the Knights of Malta. 1846. Carey and Hart. Philadelphia. 108.