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Mercenary units and formations of the Middle Ages (3 C, 25 P) N. Norman mercenaries (1 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Medieval mercenaries"
Mercenaries in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. McFarland, 2013. ... Napoleon's Mercenaries: Foreign Units in the French Army Under the Consulate and Empire, 1799 ...
French troops being attacked by the Tard-Venus free company during the 1362 Battle of Brignais.. A free company (sometimes called a great company or, in French, grande compagnie) was an army of mercenaries between the 12th and 14th centuries recruited by private employers during wars.
The lance fournie (French: "equipped lance") was a medieval equivalent to the modern army squad that would have accompanied and supported a man-at-arms (a heavily armoured horseman popularly known as a "knight") in battle. These units formed companies under a captain either as mercenary bands or in the retinue of wealthy nobles and royalty ...
Pages in category "Mercenary units and formations of the Middle Ages" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
King John's use of mercenaries in his civil wars led to condemnation and banishment of mercenaries in Magna Carta in 1215. [5] Mercenary bands also fell from favour in France in the early 13th century, the end of the Albigensian Crusade and the beginning of a long period of domestic peace removing the context in which the routiers flourished. [6]
Mercenary units and formations of the Middle Ages (3 C, 25 P) Military units and formations of the Hundred Years' War (8 P) Military units and formations of the medieval Islamic world (1 C, 10 P)
Maximilian began raising the first Landsknecht units in 1486, [2] amassing 6,000–8,000 mercenaries. One of these units he gave to Eitel Friedrich II, Count of Hohenzollern, who trained them with Swiss instructors in Bruges in 1487 to become the "Black Guard" [a] – the first Landsknechte. [12]