Jean de la Cassière
Fra ' Jean de la Cassière called l' Eveque ( " the bishop " ), ( Latin: Ioannes Episcopius Cassertanus, * 1503 in France, † December 12, 1581 in Rome) was from 30 January 1572 to his death in the 51. Grandmaster of the Order of Malta. Before the election of the Grand Master, he was Grand Prior of the tongue of Auvergne.
He built the chapel of the Sacra Infermeria and Konventualkirche, today's St. John 's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, where there was only since 1571, the religious seat. The magnificent hostels Provence, Italy and Aragon arose in his time.
The early years of his reign as Grand Master were marked by numerous disputes and disputes with the Bishop of Malta on its ecclesiastical jurisdiction. These disputes were unprecedented in the history of the Order. Finally sent Pope Gregory XIII. a Grand Inquisitor, which met with enormous resentment within the Order.
A further great conflict arose in 1575 with the Republic of Venice, as the Order confiscated the goods of a Jewish businessman on a Venetian galleys. Venice was outraged and the Order was faced with the danger of all his possessions on Venetian territory to lose. Again, the Pope intervened and the Order had to pay compensation to the conflict to end. This also led to great dissatisfaction among the knights.
The third and most serious cause of discord within the Order during Cassieres tenure was initiated by King Philip II of Spain, who had managed the appointment of one of his close relatives, the 17 -year-old Archduke Wenceslaus of Austria ( son of Emperor Maximilian II, Philip's cousin ) to reach Grand Prior of Castile. Incensed at the intervention of the king, the Castilian knight of the Order rebelled openly against this agreement. The Pope demanded by the Knights to publicly apologize before the Grand Master and the General Chapter for this disobedience.
These events fueled further resentment within the Order against la Cassiere and eventually led in 1581 to the deposition of Cassiere by the Order and its setting in the Fort St. Angelo. So Mathurin was Romegas, 1577 to lieutenant ( deputy) of the Grand Master elected former Grand Prior of Toulouse and of the Order 's most famous naval hero, de facto Grand Master. The Pope responded to this by sending his special envoy Gaspare Visconti to investigate the dispute and the administration of the same Order. La Cassiere and Romegas both received a summons to Rome to clarify this incident. La Cassieres arrival in Rome on October 26, 1581 as well as its reception by Pope Gregory XIII. , Was carried out in compliance with the ceremonies tion states a grandmaster. In contrast to this was Romegas reception with extreme coldness and contempt. Romegas died, alone and with broken spirit, within a week, on November 4, 1581st La Cassiere was honorably acquitted of all charges and allegations and reinstated to the position of Grand Master. But he did not live long enough to enjoy his triumph, but died on December 21, 1581 at the age of seventy-eight years in Rome. His body was transferred to Malta and buried in the St. John 's Co-Cathedral in Valletta.