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Fra' Juan de Homedes y Coscón (c. 1477 – 6 September 1553) was a Spanish knight of Aragon who served as the 47th Grand Master of the Order of Malta, between 1536 and 1553.
Jun 2, 2022 · Grand Master Juan de Homedes y Coscón, a Spanish knight from the Langue of Aragon and Bailli of Caspe, was elected the 47th Grand Master of the Order of Malta on October 20th, 1536 when he was 59 years old.
Jul 16, 2023 · Grand Master Juan de Homedes (c.1477-1553, ruled 1536-53). Photo of engraving by Daniel Cilia. Between 1536 and 1553, the ruling grand master was the Aragonese Juan de Homedes.
Built in around the 1530s, what today is known as the Inquisitor’s Palace initially housed the Magna Curia Castellania Melitensis, a civil tribunal established by Grand Master Juan de Homedes y Coscon in 1543, until the institution moved to the then-newly built Valletta in 1572.
Sep 4, 2016 · Grand Master Juan de Homedes y Cascon (1536-1553) was convinced by Pedro Pardo, his Spanish military engineer loaned by the Viceroy of Sicily after the landings of summer 1551, that l’Isola di...
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.
Jan 9, 2022 · Juan de Homedes y Coscón (1477-1553), the 47th grand master of the Order and the fourth in Malta (1536-1553), by a French engraver. Photo: Daniel Cilia
