Image of the young 39th
Grand Master
of the Order of the
Knights Hospitalier
, 1467 - 1476, Giovanni Battista Orsini, (circa 1450 - 1503), Abbot of the Benedictine Monastery of San Salvadore Maggiore, diocese of Arezzo, since August 1477, Cardinal deacon since November 1483, participant in the
conclaves
of 1484 to elect Pope
Innocent VIII
and 1492 to elect
Pope Alexander VI
, but his properties were confiscated by such Pope, the father of
Cesare Borgia
, in January 1503, dying in prison, probably poisoned according to some pamphlets, on 22 February 1503
Coat of Arms of J.B. des Ursins, Grand-Master, on the walls of the castle at Rhodes, Greece.
