Hugues Loubenx De Verdalle
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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.


History

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, 1587.


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Coins of Grandmaster Hugues Loubenx de Verdalle
Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller Knights of Malta 1531 births 1595 deaths 16th-century French cardinals Burials at Saint John's Co-Cathedral {{Malta-bio-stub