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Description: | Portrait of Nicolas Cotoner, 61st Grand Master of the Order of St John, 1663-80. He was Commissario dell'armamenti, 1620; Commissario dei poveri, vedove and carcerati, 1621; Prior of Catalogna 1623-24; Castellan 1641; Bailiff of Maiorca 1660-63, though already Bailiff of Negroponte; and Grand Master, in which post he succeeded his brother Raphael (1660-63), an exceedingly rare event in the Order's history. His reign was marked by the usual naval expeditions against the Turks, and fearing a repeat of the Great Siege of 1565, he commissioned the talented engineer Count Valperga to build a series of defensive lines, known as the Cotonera lines. The first stone was laid by Cotoner in the bastion of St Nicholas on the 28 August 1670, with much ceremony. | Subjects: | Grand Master) portrait (Nicolas Cotoner | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Maltese School Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8602... | Go to resource |
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