Islam vs Christendom
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Grand Master of the Western Mediterranean
John Parisot de la Valette becomes the Grand Master of St John in 1565. He had been a galley slave in the Ottoman galleys and then exchanged under one of the periodic truces. At this stage not only is Christendom being thoroughly threatened by the Ottomans but the Valois rulers of France have had a long falling out with the Habsburg rulers of the Holy Roman Empire so there's a very sort of mixed bag.
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