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    Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (7 November 1838 – 19 August 1889) was a French symbolist writer. His family called...
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    Fra' Philippe de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (1464 – 21 August 1534) was a prominent member of the Knights Hospitaller at Rhodes and later Malta. Having risen...
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    Master Philippe Villiers de l'Isle Adam Taking Possession of Mdina is a painting by the French artist Antoine de Favray from c. 1750. It depicts Philippe Villiers...
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  • L'Isle-Adam may refer to: Places L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise, a commune in France Château de L'Isle-Adam People Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (1464-1534)...
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    nephew of Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Grand Master of the Order of Malta. He was received as a Knight of the Order in 1521. Nicolas de Villegagnon...
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    the Muslim slaves charged with the hardest labour. In 1521, Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam was elected grand master of the order. Expecting a new Ottoman...
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  • Jean II de Villiers, seigneur de L'Isle-Adam; Robert de Villiers, seigneur de Valmondois and Jeanne de Villiers Brother of Perronelle de Villiers. He was...
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    election to the office of Grand Master of the Order, to succeed Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam at Malta. After he was elected he spent two months in Calabria...
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    to the island, and possibly up 200,000. Under Grand Master Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, the knights, though well-fortified, only had about 7,000 men-at-arms...
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    correspondence begun to be sent between Grand Master Fra' Philippe Villiers de l'Isle Adam and Henry VIII, King of England. The Poste Magistrali was founded...
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    Quintin, Secretary to the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, wrote in 1536 that, while classical authors wrote of Maltese...
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    sources). Against this force the Knights, under Grand Master Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, had about 7,000 men-at-arms and their fortifications. The...
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    Order by Emperor Charles V in 1530, where Grand Master Fra’ Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam made him Commander of the Grand Master’s Arsenal. The family...
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    royals including John III of Portugal, Francis I of France, and Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam. After returning to his home of Venice, Pigafetta published...
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    of the Order of St. John, the building might have received Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, the first Grand Master in Malta. The building was further...
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    the property of his descendant who took the style of Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam. Philippe (1464–1534) was a prominent member of the Knights Hospitaller...
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    Crete) in 1668 François de Beaufort, who died there Philippe de Montaut-Bénac, marshal under the duke of Beaufort Philippe de Vendôme, the nephew of the...
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    Pierre d'Aubusson, Emery d'Amboise, Fabrizio del Carretto and Philippe Villiers de l’Isle Adam ordered the fortifications to be rebuilt to withstand the cannons...
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    successor Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, the order lost Rhodes to the Ottoman Empire and later moved to Malta in 1530. Louis-François de Villeneuve-Bargemont...
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    Great Siege of Rhodes in 1522, and accompanied Grand Master Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, after the Order's expulsion from Rhodes by the Ottoman Turks...
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    Sultan Osman III in 1755. Grand Master Philippe Villiers de l'Isle Adam Taking Possession of Mdina Antoine de Favray - The Visit of Maltese Ladies Wikimedia...
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    became known as the Knights of Malta when, on 26 October 1530, Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Grand Master of the Knights, sailed into Malta's Grand Harbour...
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    Mdina (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    ceremoniously handed over the keys of the city to Grand Master Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, but the Order settled in Birgu and Mdina lost its status as...
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  • (d. 1526) date unknown Nezahualpilli, Aztec ruler (d. 1515) Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitallers (d. 1534) January...
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    de Villiers de l'Isle Adam From His Eternal Sleep is a 1906 maquette by Frédéric Brou for a tomb monument to the writer Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam...
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    late 16th century: Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (died 1534) Piero de Ponte (died 1535) Juan de Homedes (died 1553) Claude de la Sengle (died 1557)...
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    Cajetan, Italian theologian and cardinal (b. 1470) August 21 – Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, 44th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1464) September...
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    sources). Against this force the Knights, under Grand Master Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, had about 7,000 men-at-arms, with an English, Spanish, French...
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    qualités, armes et blasons de leurs Eminences Messieurs les Grands-Maistres de l'Ordre de Saint Jean de Jérusalem, dits de Malte, depuis leur origine...
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    tombs of Grand Masters like Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Claude de la Sengle, Jean Parisot de Valette, and Alof de Wignacourt. In 1666, a project...
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