| LC control no. | n 85053836 |
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| Personal name heading | Aubusson, Pierre d', 1423-1503 |
| Variant(s) | Aubusson, Peter d', 1423-1503 D'Aubusson, Pierre, 1423-1503 Daubusson, Petrus, 1423-1503 Busonus, Petrus, 1423-1503 |
| Birth date | 1423 |
| Death date | 1503-07-03 |
| Place of birth | Le Monteil-au-Vicomte (France) |
| Place of death | Rhodes (Greece) |
| Field of activity | Military religious orders |
| Affiliation | Knights of Malta |
| Profession or occupation | Hospitalers Cardinals Papal legates |
| Found in | Bouhours, D. The life of the renowned Peter d'Aubusson, 1679. Dict. de biog. française (Aubusson, Pierre d'; b. 1423; d. 7/3/1503) Knights of Malta. Stabilimenta Militum Hierosolymitanorum, 23 August 1496: beginning of text, leaf a1v (Prohemium in volumen stabilimentorum Rhodioru[m] Militu[m] Sacri Ordinis Hospitalis Sancti Iohannis Hierosolymitani. Frater Petrus Daubusson miseratione Sacrosancte Romane Ecclesie Sancti Hadriani Diaconus Cardinalis, ac sacre domus Hospitalis Sancti Ioa[n]nis Hierosolymitani Magister humilis ...) French Wikipedia, February 22, 2019 (Pierre d'Aubusson, born 1423 in the castle of Monteil (now Le Monteil-au-Vicomte in the Creuse department), died July 3, 1503, Rhodes; 40th Grand Master of the Hospitalers of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem [Knights of Malta]; Cardinal and Papal legate in Asia; entered the Order of the Hospitalers of Jerusalem, 1444, and moved to Rhodes, where he lived until his death; elected Grand Master of the order, June 17, 1476; defended Rhodes against the Turks in the siege of 1480; in 1481, undertook a reform of the statutes of the order) "Pierre d' Aubusson, French cardinal," in Encyclopedia Britannica online, article last updated January 1, 2019, retrrieved February 22, 2019 ("Pierre d' Aubusson, (born 1423, Monteil-au-Vicomte, Fr.-died July 3, 1503, Rhodes), grand master of the military-religious Order of St. John of Jerusalem, known for his defense of Rhodes against the Turks ... [In 1488] Aubusson turned Cem [the Turkish Sultan's brother, whom d'Aubusson was holding hostage] over to Pope Innocent VIII, who had been vying with the kings of Hungary and Naples for the possession of so valuable a political weapon ... In return, Innocent made Aubusson a cardinal (1489) ... As cardinal, Aubusson reformed the Order of St. John, strengthened its authority in Rhodes, and eliminated Judaism from the island by expelling all adult Jews and forcibly baptizing their children") Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, February 22, 2019 (entry S-533: Stabilimenta Rhodiorum militum sacri ordinis hospitalis sancti Johannis Hierosolymitani ,1496; with introduction by Petrus Busonus, Grand Master of the Order of St. John) |
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