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by Allen, Bruce Ware


  Knolles, Richard, 273n4

  Kurtoğlu Muslihiddin Reis, 11, 12, 15–16

  Kust Ali Abdul Rahman, 46, 274n16

  La Cassière (grand master), 263

  La Cerda, Gaston, 65, 276n24, 285n19

  La Cerda, Juan de (captain): death, 220; Fort St. Elmo, 107–8, 117, 119–21, 129–30, 132, 137–38, 150, 285n12, 287n7; post of Maestro di Campo, 220; strategy, 140; wounds, 150, 287n1

  La Cerda, Juan de (viceroy), 60–66, 68

  La Goletta: Charles V’s control, 37, 39; Christian defenses, 170–71, 300n13; Ottoman strategy, 36, 90, 92, 96, 124, 286n6; Selim’s siege, 254; twin forts, 34, 37

  La Gravière, Jurien de, 264, 299n

  La Motte, Gaspard de, 73–75, 100, 110, 120

  Lanci, Baldassare, 92

  Lanfreducci, Francesco, 128

  Lanfreducci, Frederico, 160, 161

  Laparelli, Francesco, 108, 232, 252

  La Rivière, Adrien de, 101–5, 107, 112, 283nn12–13, 283n21, 284nn17–18

  la Roche, Antoine de, 131, 140–42, 249

  Lascaris, Philip, 179–82, 263–64, 291n2

  Lastic, Louis de, 215

  League of Cognac, 27–28

  Leonardi, Gian Giacomo, 123, 128, 286n

  Lepanto, battle of, 253, 258, 261–63

  Lescout, Mathurin d’Aux de. See Romegas (Mathurin d’Aux de Lescout)

  Leynì, Andrea Provana di, 197

  Leyva, Sancho de, 61, 86, 227, 229–30, 238

  L’Isle-Adam, Philippe de Villiers de, 166; Crete, 20; as grand master, 10–11, 25, 28–29, 271n12; Malta, 21–23; Rhodes, 11–19, 25, 26, 269n11

  Loaysa, Geofrè de, 182, 196

  Londoño, Sancho de, 297n23

  Louis, King (Hungary), 4–5

  Lugny (knight), 207, 293n11, 294n14

  Magro, Orlando, 213

  Mahdia, 39, 50–52, 86, 275n28, 275n32

  Malta: agriculture, 22, 270n5; citizens, 22, 59, 100; defenses, 53, 57, 74; invasion rumors, 71; map, 166; as Order’s home, 21–22, 25, 29, 48, 59, 271n12; Sinan Pasha’s attack, 52–54; strategic location, 22, 135–36, 252

  Malta, siege of: aftermath, 249–52, 258, 299n7; alternate scenarios, 257–58; civilians, 99, 116–17, 183–84, 195, 207–8; final battle, 244–48; horses, 207, 208, 294n15; initial battle, 109–12; livestock, 107; medical care, 193–94; motivation for, 78–79, 256–57; popular accounts, 212–13, 265, 294n14; siege of Rhodes comparisons, 249; threatening Europe, 79, 87; water resources, 107–8, 112, 196, 198, 284nn5–6, 299n19; weapons, 110–11, 125–26, 144–45. See also Knights of St. John, siege of Malta; Ottoman Empire, siege of Malta; specific battles

  Mantovano, Battista, 258

  maps, 166

  Marsa, Malta, 107–8, 112, 205–7, 234, 293n11, 299n19

  Marsamxett, Malta, 235, 237

  Marsaxlokk bay, Malta, 101, 103–4, 107, 113, 150

  Marseilles, 42–43

  Marsile (knight), 47–48

  Martinengo, Gabriele Tadini de, 9–10, 15, 19, 269n3, 269n11

  Mary, Queen (England), 282n37

  Mas, Colonel (Pierre de Massuez-Vercoirin): Fort St. Elmo, 114, 117, 121–22, 127, 134, 140–42, 149, 155, 156, 160; initial Malta battle, 110; Ottoman arrival in Malta, 100

  Maximilian II, Holy Roman emperor, 212, 253

  Mdina, Malta: Christian defenses, 93–94, 100, 104, 116–17, 241–42, 291n7, 291n27; Christian reinforcements, 172–73, 180–81, 236–38; Christian supplies and messages, 136, 153, 204; civilians, 116, 177, 285n4, 291n27; Ottoman forces, 113, 164, 177, 207, 226; Sinan Pasha’s attack, 54

  Méaulle, Fortuné Louis, 166

  Medici, Cosimo I de’, 58, 88, 92, 171

  Medina, Francisco Ruys de, 140–42

  Medrano (soldier), 288n1

  Medrano, Captain, 100, 110, 121–22, 127, 131–32, 135–36, 150, 285n19, 288n11

  Mehmed ben Mehmed, 102

  Mehmed ben Mustafa, 103, 160

  Mehmed II, Sultan, 4, 279n32

  Mendosa, Pietro de, 219

  Mesquita, Dom, 93, 116, 146, 173, 208, 229, 295n19

  Mesquita, Vendo de, 102–3

  Mihrimah (Suleiman’s daughter), 52, 72, 75–76, 78

  Minorca, 39–40

  Miraglia, Pietro, 155

  Miranda, Juan de: death, 159, 213, 288n13; Fort St. Elmo, 131–33, 135, 143, 147, 150, 153, 156, 159, 161, 288n13; name, 286n1

  Modo, Marietta de, 195

  Modon, Greece, 30–32, 100, 182, 193, 251, 272n3

  Mohammad Pasha, 80

  Mohammed Bey, 115

  Moncada, Hugo de, 62

  Monserrat, Melchior de, 147, 149, 153, 155–56

  Monsuar, Nostre de, 216

  Montluc, Blaise de, 74, 281n3

  Morgut, Jean Antoine de, 107

  Moriscos, 257, 258, 301n1

  Muhammad Ibn-Mūsā ad-Damīrī, 278n10

  Mulazzo, Vespasiano Malaspina dei Marchesi di, 235

  Muley Hassan, 36, 39, 272n13

  Muñatones, Andres de, 198

  Murad, Hajji, 211

  Mustafa Pasha, Lala Kara, 279n38, 301n8

  Mustapha (Suleiman’s son), 72–73

  Mustapha Pasha: abuse of Christian corpses, 160, 164–65, 290n26; Birgu, 106; chain of command, 80, 89–90, 109, 124, 233, 280n56, 284n19, 291n2; command conflicts, 89–90, 103, 125, 162–63, 238–39, 260–61, 282n17, 301n7; correspondence with Suleiman, 112, 114, 149, 158–59, 161, 175, 213–14, 223, 233; failures at Malta, 234, 239–40; faith, 231; final Malta battle, 241, 244–46, 248, 250, 299n4, 299n27; Fort St. Elmo, 117–19, 126–27, 129–30, 144–51, 156, 158–61; Fort St. Michael, 175–76, 186, 188, 197, 201–3, 205–6, 210, 217–18; Grand Harbor, 182–83; identity, 301n8; Marsa, 206–7; military intelligence, 146, 200; Naxxar, 242–44; peace terms, 175–78; poetry, 160–61; post-siege, 233, 260–61; prisoners, 104–5, 112, 146, 181; state of war, 214, 216–17, 226; strategy, 113–14, 117–18, 124–25, 163, 180, 225, 239–40; supplies, 182, 193, 217, 291n12; in vanguard of attack, 214, 218, 220, 296n5; weapons, 224

  Mustapha Reis, 83–84

  Napoleon, 255

  Napolitano, Girolamo Pepe, 126

  Navarro, Pedro de, 62

  Naxxar, Malta, 242–44

  Nice, 43, 273n4

  Nicolay, Nicholas de, 55, 72

  Oliventia, Martinez de, 226–28

  Oran, 64, 169, 262

  Order of the Knights of St. John. See Knights of St. John, siege of Malta

  Ottoman Empire: alliance against, 40; decline, 255; Djerba, 63–68; extent of empire, 3–4; foreign relations, 10, 12, 20, 79, 254; invasion of Italy, 42–43; Mediterranean theater, 5–6, 79, 258; Rhodes, 4, 11–19, 26, 269n6

  Ottoman Empire, siege of Malta: aftermath, 251–53; battle formations, 110; casualties, 112, 129, 145, 149, 192, 247, 250, 299n4, 299n27; chain of command, 112–13, 124, 284n19; command conflicts, 103, 145, 195, 238–39; costs, 161; defectors, 179–81; illnesses, 193; military intelligence, 104–5, 146; morale, 225, 233; motivation, 78–79; navy, 88–89, 100–101, 169, 281n14, 283n8; omens, 89, 90, 91, 282n27; preparations, 80–83; prisoners, 102–5, 146; reinforcements, 185–86; strategy, 94–95, 113–14, 180; supplies, 103, 108–9, 227, 289n24, 297n4; tent village, 108–9; troops, 88–89, 91, 103–4, 123–24, 298n3; water resources, 107–8, 198, 284nn5–6; weapons, 110–11, 118, 125–26, 224–25, 293n13

  Pantoja de la Cruz, Juan, 166

  Parisot, Henri, 194–95

  Peçevi (historian), 260–61, 266, 284n19, 289n12

  Pegullo, Ambrogio, 154

  Peloponnese, 31–33

  Peñon de Velez de la Gomera, 78, 86, 170

  Persia, 58, 73

  Petit, Edouard, 272n4

  Petremol, Antoine, 78, 82, 89–90, 99, 234, 251, 280n41, 282n24, 301n7

  Phayre, 158, 193, 264

  Philip II, King (Spain), 166; as armchair general, 60; ascension to throne, 59; correspondence with Sande, 237, 244, 299n19; correspondence with Toledo, 92, 116, 121, 170–71, 173, 211, 251, 282n33; corresponde
nce with Valette, 117, 217, 250; Djerba, 60–61, 66; La Goletta, 92, 170–71, 254, 300n13; Malta preparations, 87–88, 92, 100, 238, 281n7; Moorish decree, 301n1; navy, 70–71, 170, 230, 262; Ottoman relations, 79, 254; post-siege, 251

  Piali Pasha: abuse of Christian corpses, 164, 165; background, 58, 64, 276n17; Birgu, 218; chain of command, 89–90, 124, 282n17, 284n19; Chios, 252; command conflicts, 103, 125, 195, 238–39, 260–61, 301n7; command of navy, 59, 60, 80, 81, 115, 233, 239–40, 280n56, 283n7; Djerba, 63–68, 276n29; failures at Malta, 124, 234; final Malta battle, 246–48; Fort St. Elmo, 119, 148, 157, 158; Fort St. Michael, 188; Malta strategy, 113–14, 163; in poetry, 161; Post of Castile, 202, 206; post-siege, 233, 260–61; revenge for Marsa raid, 207–8

  Piccolo Soccorso, 171–73, 180–82, 250, 290n16

  Pius IV, Pope, 87–88, 197, 212, 250, 294nn11–12

  Pius V, Pope, 259–60

  plague, 21, 70, 71

  Pliny, 278n10

  Ponte, Piero del, 36

  Porter, Whitworth, 165, 290n29

  Puglia, 71, 278n5

  Quincy (knight), 172

  Rabelais, François, 43

  Rangone, Pallavicino, 78, 259, 264, 279n26, 296n10, 298n3, 298n8

  Rhodes, 2–3, 4, 12, 13, 26

  Rhodes, siege of, 9–20, 249, 271n19

  Ribera, Matias de, 224

  Robert of Eboli, 143–44, 148, 209, 287n8

  Roberts, Nicholas, 17

  Robles, Melchior de, 171–73, 181, 188, 195, 198–99, 202, 210, 289n17, 291n2

  Rome, sack of, 28

  Romegas (Mathurin d’Aux de Lescout): as corsair, 73–78; Djerba, 62; Lepanto, 253; Mont-de-Marsan, 281n3; post-siege, 263; siege of Malta, 93, 110, 157, 199, 202, 241

  Rosso, Camillo, 108

  Rüstem Pasha, 52, 58, 70, 72

  Salazar, Captain, 216, 295n25

  Salazar, Pedro de, 192

  Salih ben Mahmud, 184

  Salvago (knight), 131–32

  Sanchez Coello, Alonso, 166

  Sande, Álvaro de: Algiers, 41; command structure, 230, 231, 242, 243, 296n18, 296n20, 297nn22–23, 297nn25–26, 298n2; Djerba, 61, 62, 65–68, 227; final Malta battle, 245, 246, 247, 299n4; Malta strategy, 238, 241; Mdina, 242, 298n5; Naxxar, 243–44; post-siege, 262; as prisoner, 69, 277n40; reports to Philip II, 237, 244, 299n19; Siena, 86

  Sangiorgio, Federico, 191

  Sanoguera, Jaime de, 179, 187, 190

  Sanoguera, Juan de, 196

  Santa Anna (carrack), 39, 273n21

  Sciberras, Malta, 94–95, 114, 125, 145, 151, 158, 179, 180, 237, 254

  Scythia, 262, 302n12

  Selaniki (historian), 80, 84, 85, 90, 160, 259, 266

  Selim (Suleiman’s son), 73, 253–54, 261

  Selim I, Sultan, 1–2, 4, 34–35, 49, 71

  Semiz Ali Pasha, 90

  Sengle, Claude de la, 59

  Senglea, Malta: Christian defenses, 93–96, 100, 104, 106, 136, 178, 183–84, 186–88, 250; name, 59; Ottoman assault, 178, 180, 190–92, 207, 218, 220, 235, 244, 250, 252. See also Fort St. Michael

  Sésé (knight), 111

  Sesse, Galatian de, 54

  siege of Malta. See Knights of St. John, siege of Malta; Malta, siege of; Ottoman Empire, siege of Malta

  Siena, 58, 59, 86, 212

  Simeoni, Paolo, 38–39

  Sinan Pasha, 52–56, 58, 166

  Skanderbeg, 3–4

  slaves, 74, 174, 182, 274n16

  Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, 253, 261

  Spain: foreign relations, 5–6, 23–25, 28, 42, 59, 254; Moriscos, 257, 258, 301n1; reconquista, 33

  Spiteri, Stephen C., 166, 266

  Starkey, Oliver, 93, 153, 260, 263, 282nn36–37, 288n5, 302n16

  St. Aubin, Pierre Antoine de Roquelaure de, 114–15

  St. Paul’s Bay, Malta, 246–47, 299n19

  Strozzi, Leone, 57

  Suleiman I, Sultan, 166; allies, 83–84; alternate Malta scenarios, 257–58; Belgrade, 4–5, 269n7; character, 4, 16, 78, 161; correspondence with Mustapha, 112, 114, 149, 158–59, 161, 163, 175, 213–14, 223, 233; death, 253, 257; Djerba, 63, 68; and Francis I, 27, 79; Hungary campaigns, 31, 32, 42, 253, 257; Italy campaign, 42–43; local problems, 71; Mahdia, 51, 52; Malta aftermath, 251–53, 256; Malta commanders, 80–81, 89–90, 112–13, 124, 185, 280n56, 282n17, 284n19; Malta motivation, 78–79; Malta preparations, 80–83, 91; Malta strategy, 176, 177, 234, 239–40, 286n6; Mediterranean theater, 5–6, 32–33, 79; navy, 6, 33, 35–36, 51; Persian war, 58; plots against, 25–26, 71, 278n8; in poetry, 161; Rhodes, 10, 11–19, 269n6; and Sande, 69; successor, 71–73, 253; and Turgut, 50, 52, 58–59, 163; and Venice, 4, 5, 20, 58–59, 269n6

  Sultana (galleon), 76–78, 232–33

  Taddei, Giannetto, 211–12

  Tagiura, 47–48

  Taylor, T., 166

  Temple, Grenville T., 166

  tercio (military formation), 37–38

  Tessières, Carlo Urre de, 60, 61, 62, 63

  Tigné, Point, Malta, 145, 150–51

  Toledo, Don Garcia de, 166; Algiers, 41; career, 68, 85–86, 106; correspondence with Philip II, 92, 116, 173, 211, 251, 282n33; correspondence with Valette, 108, 117, 120–21, 132, 178, 204, 213, 243–44, 285n19, 295n19; criticism of, 215, 264, 295n25, 296n10, 298n8; Djerba, 66; Fort St. Elmo, 127, 130; Gran Soccorso, 226–30; health, 86, 281n6; Mahdia, 50–51, 274n28, 275n28; Malta command structure, 230, 242, 281nn7–8, 296n18, 296n20, 297n23, 297n26; Malta defenses, 84, 93–96; Malta preparations, 86–88, 100, 281nn7–8, 281n12, 295n24; Malta reinforcements, 99, 132, 136, 150, 169–72, 195–97, 211–12, 215–17, 290n4; Malta strategy, 95–96, 171–73; Malta troops, 91–93; Malta water resources, 284n6; Peñon de Velez, 78, 170; Piccolo Soccorso, 171–72, 182, 290n16; post-siege, 250–51, 262, 264; Siena, 58; Tunis, 37

  Toledo, Faderigo de, 93, 112, 117, 153–54, 190

  Toledo, Fernando Alvarez de, 211

  Toledo, Pedro de, 36, 141

  Toulon, 43–44

  Tripoli, 21–23, 29, 36, 45, 47–49, 53–56, 60–61, 74, 166, 195

  Tunis, 33–34, 36–40, 51, 83, 86, 254, 261

  Turgut Reis: chain of command, 80, 89–90, 112–13, 124, 280n56, 284nn19–20; as corsair, 44, 49, 71, 74, 278n5; death, 124, 162, 163, 166, 173–74, 289n21; Djerba, 51–52, 62, 65–66; Fort St. Elmo, 126–27, 129, 134, 149, 151, 162; Mahdia, 50–53, 274n28; Malta (1551), 53–54; Malta strategy, 124–27, 154, 163, 286n6, 290n1; Malta troops, 83–84, 96, 123, 145, 150–51; in poetry, 161; and Suleiman, 50, 52, 58–59; Tripoli, 60; wound, 151, 288n16, 288n1 (chap. 15)

  Uludj Ali: background, 174–75; Lepanto, 253, 261, 292n1; merchantmen, 61, 63; Ottoman navy, 253–54; post-siege, 261; siege of Malta, 96, 190, 225, 229, 233, 235, 245–46, 290n3, 292n16; Tripoli, 162, 173–74, 195

  Vagnone, Giovanni, 134–35

  Valette, Jean Parisot de, 166; Birgu, 154, 182, 197, 218, 226, 296n6; career, 45–47; command structure, 121, 130, 231, 242, 281n7, 298n2; correspondence with Philip II, 79, 117, 217, 250; correspondence with Toledo, 108, 117, 120–21, 132, 178, 204, 213, 243–44, 285n19, 295n19; criticism of, 259, 298n8; criticism of Toledo, 264; Djerba, 62–63, 65, 68; and Dorias, 250, 299n6; family, 194–95, 282n36; final Malta battle, 245; Fort St. Angelo, 145, 153, 225–26, 288n5; Fort St. Elmo, 117–20, 129–30, 132–36, 138–47, 149–50, 154, 157, 163–64, 169, 285n18, 289n25; Fort St. Michael, 200, 226, 296n6; galleys, 75, 76; as grand master, 46, 59, 73, 251; initial Malta battle, 109–12; Malta civilians, 100, 195, 225–26; Malta defenses, 84, 94, 104, 114, 183; Malta reinforcements, 99, 117, 132, 150, 197, 211, 212, 235; Malta water resources, 108, 299n19; Mdina, 116, 117, 241–42, 285n4, 291n27; military intelligence, 83, 180–81, 199; Naxxar, 243–44; Ottoman peace terms, 176–77; Post of Castile, 200, 202, 218–19, 225; post-siege, 250, 251, 252, 259–60, 263, 300n11; prisoners, 164–65, 182, 274n16; siege preparations, 71, 80, 91–93, 100–101, 282n29; soldiers’ burials, 210, 288n11; strategy, 95–96, 106–7, 235, 237, 238, 242; Tripoli, 45, 47–49, 57, 60–61, 74; troop morale, 196, 198; Tunis,
37

  Valletta, Malta, 254, 262

  Vallier, Gaspard de, 54–55, 226

  Varese, Antonio, 111

  Venice: and Charles V, 24, 27; decline, 255; Djerba prisoners, 277n2; and Martinengo, 9–10, 269n3; Mediterranean holdings, 3, 10, 21, 90, 253; Ottoman relations, 4, 5, 10, 12, 20, 40, 58–59, 269n6; siege of Malta, 214, 223

  Vercoirin, Pierre de Massuez. See Mas, Colonel (Pierre de Massuez-Vercoirin)

  Vercoirin, Louis, 127, 129

  Vertot, René-Aubert de, 121, 164–65

  Vigneron, Pierre, 157

  Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de, 41

  Villiers, Jean de, 11, 55–56

  Viperano, Giovanni Antonio: Christian forces, 216, 283n6, 295n23, 297n25, 298n2, 298n5; Malta civilians, 99–100; Ottoman forces, 78, 83, 280n54, 284n5, 290n3, 292n15, 301n; work by, 265

  Vitalleschi, Vitellino, 139–40

  Vitelli, Giovan Luigi “Chiappino,” 58–59, 86, 211, 230, 236–37, 242–43, 245, 247, 281n6, 296n22

  Vlad III, voivode (Transylvania), 3–4

  Zekeriyyāzādé (historian), 63, 64, 277n33

  Zembrana, Alonso de, 157

 

 

 


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