Fra' Jean "Parisot" de (la) Valette (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ paʁizo d(ə) (la) valɛt]; c. 4 February 1495 – 21 August 1568) was a French nobleman and...
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the Knights Hospitaller. The city was named after the Frenchman Jean Parisot de Valette, who succeeded in defending the island against an Ottoman invasion...
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Malta. In 1566, following the Great Siege of Malta, Grand Master Jean Parisot de Valette and his Order showed interest to build a church in the name of...
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and cello teacher Dean Parisot (born 1952), Academy Award winning American film and television director Jean Parisot de Valette (1494–1568), Grand Master...
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23 August 1568, three days after the death of his predecessor Jean Parisot de Valette, after whom the Malta capital is named. During his rule as Grand...
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French actress Jean Valette [fr] Jean Parisot de Valette (1495–1568), French nobleman and 49th Grand Master of the Order of Malta Michel Valette (1928–2016)...
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the guerre de course, or running battle, between Muslims and Christians continued unabated. In 1557 the Knights elected Jean Parisot de Valette Grand Master...
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Although some of the characters (most notably Knight Commander Jean Parisot de Valette and Suleiman himself) are factual, most of the rest of the knights...
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from the habit and cross of the Order. De Vallier was later rehabilitated by Grand Master Jean Parisot de Valette. Braudel, Fernand (1995). The Mediterranean...
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minister, before a posting to the Vatican (an ancestral family member Jean Parisot de Valette had been Grand Master of the Order of Malta). An Anglophile, he...
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