Galatian de Sesse
Galatian de Sesse | |
|---|---|
| Governor of Gozo | |
| In office 1551 – 26 July 1551 | |
| Appointed by | Juan de Homedes |
| Preceded by | Andrea Castelletta (as Capitano della Verga) |
| Succeeded by | Pietro Olivares (1553) |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Aragonese |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Order of Saint John |
| Battles/wars | Invasion of Gozo (1551) |
Galatian de Sesse was an Aragonese Hospitaller knight who was Governor of Gozo in 1551, when the island was invaded by the Ottoman Empire. De Sesse was in command of an obsolete and weakly-defended Castello, which he surrendered to Ottoman admiral Sinan Pasha after two days of bombardment. De Sesse and between 5,000 and 7,000 other people – the majority of the island's population – were subsequently enslaved, and he spent five years as a galley slave before being ransomed and freed.