1510 - Southern gate of the Neratzia Castle (Kos island, Greece)
N 36° 53.711 E 027° 17.443
35S E 525902 N 4083283
Above the southern entrance portal of the medieval Neratzia Castle (Kos island, Greece) you can find stone Emery d'Amboise' coat of arms with carved date 1510 marking the construction of this part of the castle.
Waymark Code: WMPKBZ
Location: Greece
Date Posted: 09/13/2015
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Above the southern entrance portal of the medieval Neratzia Castle (Kos island, Greece) you can find stone Emery d'Amboise' coat of arms with carved date 1510 marking the construction of this part of the castle.
Emery d'Amboise (1434–1512) was Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller from 1503 to 1512. He was the 41st Grand Master. He succeeded to Pierre d'Aubusson.
The Neratzia Castle, situated at the entrance of the Kos Harbor, was built by the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (the Knights Hospitaller) who ruled on the island Kos from 1314 to 1512. The inner Keep was built around the 14th century while the outer Keep dates from the end of the 15th / beginning of the 16th century.
After the first siege of Rhodes by the Ottomans in 1480 - where the Turks used cannons gunpowder - and the destruction caused by the earthquake of 1493, the Knights of Rhodes decided to strengthen Kos Castle building a second enclosure on three sides of the initial fortress. This outer wall was built, starting in 1495, under the Grand Masters Magister Pierre d'Aubusson (1476-1503) and Emery d'Amboise (1503-1512), and completed under the magisterium of Fabrizio del Carretto (1513-1521 ).
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