Fabrizio del Carretto

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Fabrizio del Carretto
Grand Master's coat of arms of Fabrizio del Carretto

Fabrizio del Carretto (* 1455 in Genoa ; † January 10, 1521 ) was the 43rd Grand Master of the Order of St. John from December 15, 1513 until his death .

He came from the order priory Lombardy of the Italian tongue of the order and held the grand office of admiral when the general convention of the order in Rhodes elected the new grand master in 1513 . During the siege of Rhodes (1480) , he had distinguished himself through particular personal bravery in defending the Fort St. Nicholas, which shielded the harbor.

In 1516 he renewed the existing peace treaty with the Mamluks of Egypt under Tuman Bay , which, however , were conquered by the Ottomans under Sultan Selim I in 1517 . It seemed obvious that Rhodes would be the next target of Turkish conquest efforts, since the local Hospitaller bulwark was halfway along the sea trade route between Constantinople and the newly conquered Alexandria. Caretto therefore vigorously pushed ahead with the expansion of the Johanniter fortresses on the Dodecanese . He brought the engineer and architect Basilio della Scala from Vicenza to Rhodes, according to whose instructions the ramparts were reinforced with ditches and low bastions according to the most modern knowledge of Italian fortress construction at the time, in order to take into account the increased firepower of the artillery. The Carretto Bastion near the Akandia Gate in Rhodes , which was built during this construction phase, is named after him.

The death of Selim I in the autumn of 1520 delayed the major attack by the Ottomans and Carretto also died after a brief illness in the spring of 1521, before this took place in 1522 .

literature

  • Kenneth M. Setton (Ed.): A History of the Crusades . Volume 3: Harry W. Hazard (Ed.): The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries . University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 1975, ISBN 0-299-06670-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hazard, The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries , p. 332.
  2. ^ A b Hazard, The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries , p. 333.
  3. ^ Hazard, The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries , pp. 334 f.
predecessor Office successor
Guy de Blanchefort Grand Master of the Order of St. John
1513–1521 		Philippe de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
personal data
SURNAME Fabrizio del Carretto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Grand Master of the Order of St. John
DATE OF BIRTH 1455
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1521