Gabriel de Luetz [SEP] position held
king of France on 22 July:
Gabriel de Luetz was succeeded by Michel de Codignac as ambassador to the Sublime Porte, who himself was succeeded by Jean Cavenac de la Vigne.
Representation in fiction.
Gabriel de Luetz (as M. d'Aramon, Baron de Luetz) plays a small but significant role in the book Pawn in Frankincense, part of the historical fiction series the Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett, which is partly set in Constantinople and Pera in 1553.
See also.
- Franco-Ottoman alliance
de Luetz.
Siege of Tripoli.
In 1551, Gabriel de Luetz joined the Ottoman fleet to attend to the Siege of Tripoli, with two galleys and a galliot.
Calabrian Raid.
Gabriel de Luetz is also known to have convinced Suleiman to send a fleet against Charles V, for a combined Franco-Turkish action in 1552. In July 1552, the fleet raided Rhegium in Calabria, laying waste to 30 miles of coast, with Gabriel de Luetz onboard who reported the devastation in a dispatch to the