Antoine Escalin des Aimars

Antoine Escalin des Aimars
Antoine Escalin des Aimars (1498?-1578)
Nickname(s)Captain Polin
Born1516
La Garde-Adhémar, France
Died1578
La Garde-Adhémar, France
Allegiance France
Service/branchFrench Navy
Years of servicec.1535-1578
RankGeneral of the galleys
Battles/wars
Jerôme Maurand, priest of Antibes, accompanied Polin and the Ottoman fleet in 1543-44, and wrote a detailed account in Itinéraire d'Antibes à Constantinonple, 1544.

Antoine Escalin des Aimars (1516[1]–1578), also known as Captain Polin or Captain Paulin, later Baron de La Garde, was French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1541 to 1547, and "Général des Galères" ("General of the galleys") from 1544.

  1. ^ "Fonds La Garde Antoine Escalin". ifea-istanbul.net. November 6, 2015. Retrieved June 4, 2018.[permanent dead link]

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