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The Italian War of 1521–1526, sometimes known as the Four Years' War, [note 3] (French: Sixième guerre d'Italie) was a part of the Italian Wars.The war pitted Francis I of France and the Republic of Venice against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Henry VIII of England, and the Papal States.
While landsknechts and Swiss mercenaries continued to dominate during the early part of the wars, the Italian War of 1521 demonstrated the power of massed firearms in pike and shot formations. A 1503 skirmish between French and Spanish forces first demonstrated the utility of arquebuses in battle.
The Battle of Pavia, fought on the morning of 24 February 1525, was the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–1526 between the Kingdom of France and the Habsburg Empire of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor as well as ruler of Spain, Austria, the Low Countries, and the Two Sicilies.
Articles relating to the Italian War of 1521–1526 (1521-1526), a part of the Italian Wars.The war pitted Francis I of France and the Republic of Venice against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Henry VIII of England, and the Papal States.
The siege of Mézières took place in 1521, during the Italian War of 1521–1526. The town (now part of Charleville-Mézières) was besieged by an army of the Holy Roman Empire. Mézières was defended by French troops under the command of Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard and Anne de Montmorency.
Italian Wars 1494–1498 1499–1504 League of Cambrai Urbino 1521–1526 League of Cognac 1536–1538 1542–1546 1551–1559 Full list of battles Italian War of 1494–98 Further information: Italian War of 1494–1495 § Timeline Italian War of 1494–1498 1st Rapallo Mordano Fivizzano Naples 2nd Rapallo Seminara Fornovo Novara Atella Ostia 5–8 September 1494: Battle of Rapallo 17 October ...
The Battle of Bicocca or La Bicocca (Italian: Battaglia della Bicocca) was fought on 27 April 1522, during the Italian War of 1521–26.A combined French and Venetian force under Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, was decisively defeated by an Imperial–Spanish and Papal army under the overall command of Prospero Colonna.
The Italian campaign of 1524–1525 was the final significant action of the Italian War of 1521–1526 launched by the French into Northern Italy. Led by Francis I of France , the French attempted to dislodge the Habsburgs from Italy in an attempt to control Italy for themselves. [ 1 ]