Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Italian Wars [b] were a series of conflicts fought between 1494 and 1559, mostly in the Italian Peninsula, but later expanding into Flanders, the Rhineland and Mediterranean Sea. The primary belligerents were the Valois kings of France , on one side, and their opponents in the Holy Roman Empire and Spain on the other.
The First Italian War, or Charles VIII's Italian War, [2] was the opening phase of the Italian Wars.The war pitted Charles VIII of France, who had initial Milanese aid, against the Holy Roman Empire, Spain and an alliance of Italian powers led by Pope Alexander VI, known as the League of Venice.
The Italian War of 1494–1498 began when Ludovico Sforza, then Regent of Milan, invited Charles VIII of France to invade Italy, using the Angevin claim to the Kingdom of Naples as a pretext. This in turn was driven by the intense rivalry between Ludovico's wife, Beatrice d'Este , and that of his nephew Gian Galeazzo Sforza , son of Isabella of ...
1 Italian War of 1494–98. 2 Italian Wars of 1499–1504. 3 War of the League of Cambrai. 4 War of Urbino. 5 Italian War of 1521–1526. 6 War of the League of Cognac.
Articles relating to the Italian War of 1494–1495 (1494-1495), the opening phase of the Italian Wars.The war pitted Charles VIII of France, who had initial Milanese aid, against the Holy Roman Empire, Spain and an alliance of Italian powers led by Pope Alexander VI, known as the League of Venice.
Italian Wars (1494–1559) Catholic revival (1545–1648) Mid-16th c. to early 19th c. Napoleonic Italy (1801–1814) ... Partisans and Italian Civil War (1943–1945)
The siege of Novara took place in the summer and autumn of 1495 during the Italian War of 1494–1495.While king Charles VIII of France was retreating to the north after facing rebellions in the recently conquered Kingdom of Naples, and managed to escape the destruction of his army at the Battle of Fornovo (6 July 1495), his cousin and future king Louis d'Orleans opened a second front by ...
The Italian Wars, 1494–1559. Pearson Education Limited. Nicolle, David (1996). Fornovo 1495 – France's Bloody Fighting Retreat. Osprey Publishing. Oman, Charles (1937). A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century. Methuen & Co. Pohl, John (2001). The Conquistador, 1492–1550. Osprey Publishing. Roscoe, William.