Juan de Homedes
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Fra' Juan de Homedes y Coscón was a Spanish knight of Aragon who served as the 47th Grand Master of the Order of Malta, between 1536 and 1553.
SMOM 47. GM Jean de Homedes
Invasion of Gozo (1551)
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The invasion of Gozo, also known as the siege of Gozo, was an Ottoman invasion of the island of Gozo, then part of Hospitaller Malta, in July 1551. The attack, which was led by Sinan Pasha, Dragut, Ka
Juan de Homedes
…became the 47th Grandmaster of the Order on 20 October of that year. In July 1551, the Ottomans attempted to take Malta but were deterred and so they attacked the sister island of Gozo, which capitulated after some days of fierce fighting. Nearly the entire population of the island were taken as slaves…
Triq Wied Sara, Għasri, Malta panoramio
Fort St. Angelo in Birgu
D'Homedes Bastion within the fortifications of Mdina, which has survived largely unaltered since its construction in the 1540s
The northern walls of the Castello, which some Gozitans climbed down to escape enslavement