claim: Malta claims to have spearheaded the rescue mission that saved Paul the Apostle after he was shipwrecked elsewhere.
evidence: Thomas de Berkeley -LRB- c. 1293 or 1296 -- 27 October 1361 -RRB- , The Rich , feudal baron of Berkeley , of Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire , England , was a peer .. feudal baron of Berkeley. English feudal barony. Berkeley Castle. Berkeley Castle. peer. Peerage of the United Kingdom. His epithet , and that of each previous and subsequent head of his family , was coined by John Smyth of Nibley -LRB- d. 1641 -RRB- , steward of the Berkeley estates , the biographer of the family and author of `` Lives of the Berkeleys '' .. epithet. epithet. Nibley. North Nibley