Claude de la Sengle

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Claude de la Sengle

Grand Master of the Hospitallers

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Senglea
…by the Knights’ grand master Claude de la Sengle. Subsequently fortified, it played an important role during the Turks’ Great Siege of Malta in 1565, when it suffered heavy damage. At that time, Sengle’s successor and the leader of Malta’s defense, Grand Master Jean Parisot de la Valette, bestowed upon…
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…by the Knights’ grand master Claude de la Sengle. Subsequently fortified, it played an important role during the Turks’ Great Siege of Malta in 1565, when it suffered heavy damage. At that time, Sengle’s successor and the leader of Malta’s defense, Grand Master Jean Parisot de la Valette, bestowed upon…
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