Juan de Rena and the financing of the Tunis campaign: the view from Barcelona's Dockyards
[EN] The struggle between Charles V and the Ottoman empire for control of the central Mediterranean spanned the whole of the emperor’s reign and continued for much of the sixteenth century. It would come to an end with the final campaigns of the Ottoman fleet under the command of Cigalazade towards...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/236384 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/236384 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Barbarossa Galleys Mediterranean warfare Shipbuilding Galere Guerra mediterranea Costruzione navale |
| Sumario: | [EN] The struggle between Charles V and the Ottoman empire for control of the central Mediterranean spanned the whole of the emperor’s reign and continued for much of the sixteenth century. It would come to an end with the final campaigns of the Ottoman fleet under the command of Cigalazade towards the end of that century. From 1529, when Süleyman first attempted to conquer Vienna, until 1541 when the imperial forces failed to take Algiers, the two great rulers based at opposite ends of the Mediterranean organised a series of campaigns against the other, relying for the most part on their maritime forces. During the 1530s in particular it is possible to detect a major shift in the emperor’s strategic direction which would have important repercussions on the development of the Monarchy’s principal Mediterranean ports, especially Barcelona and Malaga. This article illustrates and assesses the significant contribution of the city of Barcelona and its dockyards to the imperial campaign launched in support of the Hafsid sultan’s attempt to recover the city of Tunis, which had been conquered in 1534 by the Ottoman fleet under the command of Hayreddin Barbarossa. It relies principally on the little-known manuscripts of Juan de Rena now housed in the Archivo General de Navarra, supplemented where possible with material relating to the costs of the expedition from the Archivo General de Simancas. |
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