Hugues Loubenx de Verdalle [SEP] place of death
Hugues Loubenx de Verdalle
Fra' Hugues Loubenx de Verdalle (13 April 1531 – 4 May 1595) was the 51st Grand Master of the Order of Malta, between 1582 and 1595. He is mainly remembered for the reconstruction of the hunting lodge at Boschetto which was renamed Verdala Palace in his honour. He is buried in a sarcophagus in the Crypt of the Co-Cathedral of St. John in Valletta. He was made Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria in Portico Octaviae by Pope Sixtus V in the consistory of December 18
Deacon of Santa Maria Novae
- Albrecht von Austria (aged 29), Cardinal Deacon of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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- Hugues Loubenx de Verdalle (aged 59), Cardinal Deacon of Santa Maria in Portico, Grand Master of the Sovereign order of the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem
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