Gonsalvo Monroy

King Alfonso of Castille sold Malta for thirty thousand fiorints (money of the time).

• True

• False

Which was the rich man that bought the Maltese islands in 1425?

• Gonsalvo Cardona

• Gonsalvo Monroy

• Antonio Cardona

Gonsalvo Monroy was known to be...

• Kind and charitable

• poor and old

• rich and greedy

• greedy and cruel-hearted miser

To earn back the money he spent on Malta and Gozo and to become more richer he..

• sold slaves

• made a lot of taxes

• sold houses

The Maltese were happy under the rule of Gonsalvo Monroy.

• True

• False

The Maltese leaders went to __________________ to the king and pleaded with him to take the Maltese Islands in his hands again.

• Sicily

• Italy

• Spain

In bad times the Maltese sold their clothes, jewellery, fruits, animals and land to collect the money.

• True

• False

With the money they could regain their ____________________.

• wealth

• freedom

• status

The Gozitan writer Ninu Cremona wrote a novel based on this story named

Il-Fidwa tal-Bdiewa

• True

• False