Hugues Loubenx de Verdale

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Hugues Loubenx de Verdale
Grandmaster coat of arms of Hugues Loubenx de Verdale
Verdala palace

Hugues Loubenx de Verdale , also Lubens , Latin Hugo Lobesius Verdalius , (born April 13, 1531 in Loubens , † May 4, 1595 in Rome ) was the 52nd Grand Master of the Order of Malta from 1582 until his death and a Roman Catholic Cardinal from 1587 .

Career

Hugues Loubenx de Verdale was born in Loubens Castle in Gascony . His noble family originally came from Carcassonne .

He joined the Order of Malta in 1547. In 1552 he took part in the siege of Zara . During the siege of Malta in 1565 he commanded the artillery. He was then Grand Prior of the Order in Toulouse and Commander of Pézenas . In 1579 he was the Order's ambassador to the Holy See . In the same year he became regent of the tongue of Provence .

On January 12, 1582 he was elected Grand Master of the Order. From 1586 he had the hunting lodge in the "Buskett Gardens" ( Rabat ) rebuilt, which was later renamed Verdala Palace in his honor .

On December 18, 1587, Pope Sixtus V appointed him cardinal deacon . He also became prefect of the papal fleet.

Hugues reformed the order and commissioned Jacopo Bosio to write his historical work on the order Historia Equitum S. Ioannis Hierosolymitani . Although a cardinal, he did not attend the conclave . So he was in the election of Popes Urban VII. 1590, Gregory XIV. 1590, Innocent IX. 1591 and Clemens VIII. 1592 not present.

Hugues invited the Jesuits to come to Malta and set up schools. On November 12, 1592, the Jesuit College Collegium Melitense was founded at the suggestion of Pope Clement VIII and Hugues by the Bishop of Malta, Tomás Gargal (Gargallo) OSIo.Hieros. , founded in Valletta .

Hugues Loubenx de Verdale died in Rome in 1595. His body was transferred to Malta and buried in the crypt of St. John's co-cathedral in Valletta.

literature

  • Pierre d'Avity , Johann Ludwig Gottfried : Archontologiae Cosmicae. Book III: Origo Ordinum Militarium, tam Regularium. Jennisius, Frankfurt am Main 1628.
  • Charles Berton: Dictionnaire des cardinaux . J.-P. Migne, Paris 1857.
  • Aain Blondy: Un prince de la Renaissance à l'aube de la contre-réforme: Hugues de Loubens de Verdalle, 1531-1582-1595. Cardinal et grand maître de l'ordre de Malte. Eds. Bouchene, Saint-Denis 2005.
  • Lorenzo Cardella: Memorie storiche de 'cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa . Stamperia Pagliarini, Rome 1793.
  • Alfonso Chacón : Vitæ, et res gestæ Pontificvm Romanorum et SRE Cardinalivm ab initio nascentis Ecclesiæ vsque ad Vrbanvm VIII. Pont. Max. Typis Vaticanis, Rome 1630.
  • Conradus Eubel, Guglielmus van Gulik: Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi . Sumptibus et Typis Librariae Regensbergianae, Munich 1935; Reprint: Il Messagero di S. Antonio, Padua 1960.
  • Michael Galea: Grandmaster Hughes Loubenx De Verdalle 1582–1595. Publishers Enterprises Group Ltd., Valletta 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Themistocles Zammit : Malta. The Maltese Islands and their history . AC Aquilina, Malta 1952, p. 160.
  2. ^ Archives for Hessian History and Archeology (Volume 40) , Historischer Verein für Hessen 1982
predecessor Office successor
Jean de la Cassière Grand Master of the Order of Malta
1581–1595 		Martin Garzes
personal data
SURNAME Loubenx de Verdale, Hugues
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lobesius Verdalius, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Grand Master of the Order of Malta
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1531
PLACE OF BIRTH Loubens
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1595
Place of death Rome