Gaspard de Vallier

Gaspar de Vallier was a Marshall of the Knights of Malta, who was in command of the fortress of Tripoli during the Siege of Tripoli (1551).

He was French, from the region of Auvergne ("Langue d'Auvergne").

In Tripoli, he commanded 30 knights and 630 Calabrian and Sicilian mercenaries.

Upon his return to Malta, Gaspar de Vallier was heavily criticized by the Grand Master de Homedes, brought in front of a tribunal, and stripped from the habit and cross of the Order.

[2] De Vallier was later rehabilitated by Grand Master Jean Parisot de Valette.

View of Tripoli by Nicolas de Fer , before 1705.