Grand Master Claude de la Sengle

Claude de la Sengle was the 48th Grand Master of the Order of St John, from 1553 to his death in 1557. A native Frenchman, Sengle, then Bailli of the French langue of the Order, was heavily involved in the battles of the Knights in the Mediterranean and in North Africa against the Ottoman corsairs led by admiral Turgut Reis.

Object type

Portrait Medals

Date

Production: 1553

Subject(s)

Knights Hospitaller
Portraiture

Associated person

Subject: Claude de la Sengle (1494 - 1557)

Inscriptions

obverse: F.CLAVDIVS DE LA SENGLE.MAG.HOSP

reverse: DEO.ET.BEATE.VIRGINI

Dimensions

Diameter: 50mm

Materials and technique

Bronze

Production place

Italy

References

Attwood, Philip. Italian Medals c. 1530-1600 in British Public Collections. British Museum Press, 2003.
Page 421

Credit line

Gift of Edmund Fraser, 1923

Catalogue number

1503