The Renaissance And the Reformation; a Textbook of European History 1494-1610
The Renaissance And the Reformation; a Textbook of European History 1494-1610
Tanner, Emmeline M. (Emmeline Mary), 1876-1955
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— Caliphate removed to Constanti- nople. § 3. Reign of Solyman the Magnificent, 1520-66. — Con- quests in Mediterranean and Hungary. — Alliance with Francis I. § 4. Reign of Selim II, 1566-74. § 5. Decline of Turks. § 1. At the time when our period begins, Bajazet II Bajazet II, (1481-1513), the only one of the earlier Ottoman princes \^ x \~ who did not possess great ability and energy, was ruler over the Turkish dominions. His brother Djem, whose rivalry he feared, was the prisoner of Pope Al...exander VI, having been surrendered to him by the Knights of Rhodes. 1 1 The Knights of Rhodes were the Knights of St. John, to whom the island of Rhodes had been granted by the Eastern Emperor in 1308. This Order had been founded in Palestine at the time of the Crusades. The knights had charge of a hospital in Jerusalem for poor and sick Latin pilgrims ; each knight also took an oath to become a militant defender of the Cross. TANNER H 98 THE BALANCE OF POWER bk.ii Relations Holding this unfortunate hostage, the Pope did not thePope scruple to negotiate with Bajazet for money to forward an ^ his own private and ambitious schemes.
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