Juan de Homedes y Coscon

Fra ' Juan de Homedes y COSCON (also Jean, * 1477, † September 6, 1553 ) was a Spanish nobleman and from 1536 to his death in the 47th Grand Master of the Order of Malta.

He came from the Aragonese tongue of the Order. During his reign, the Order built on the Emperor Charles V in 1530, the Order of Malta surrendered substantial fortifications to resist an expected new attack of the Ottoman Empire, which had the Order of 1522 of Rhodes sold, can.

However, the Order lost its North African possession Tripoli in 1551 to a Turkish invasion force under the corsair and Admiral Turgut Reis and the Ottoman admiral Sinan Pasha. Homedes made ​​the military governor of Tripoli, Gaspard de Vallier, responsibility and let him explain deprived and imprisoned his knighthood. De Vallier was only years later rehabilitated by Grand Master Jean de la Valette.