Giovanni Battista Tommasi

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73. Grand Master
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Giovanni Battista Tommasi
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Grandmaster coat of arms of Giovanni Battista Tommasi

Giovanni Battista Tommasi de Cortona (born October 6, 1731 in Italy , † June 13, 1805 in Catania in Sicily , Italy) was the 73rd Grand Master of the Order of Malta from February 9, 1803 until his death (1805) .

Tommasi was the last Grand Master of the Order recognized by the Pope for 75 years .

During his brief reign, the order, expelled from Malta in 1798, was in exile in Messina until February 1804 , then in Catania. Only after his death did the order - led by a Luogotenente del magisterio (governor of the Grand Magisterium) for 75 years - move its exile to Rome for the next 21 years , then to Ferrara in 1826 , and then to settle in Rome from 1834.

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Paul of Russia Grand Master of the Order of Malta
1803–1805
Johann Baptist Ceschi a Santa Croce