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Name Life Years active Allegiance (Organization)Comments Selman Reis: 1515–1538 Mamluk Sultanate: Ottoman admiral and corsair who commanded a group of 2,000 armed Levantines for the Mamluk navy during the Portuguese–Mamluk naval war.
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.
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, ... Pages in category "Medieval mercenaries" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
By 1333 other mercenaries had arrived in Italy to fight with John of Bohemia as the Compagnia della Colomba (Company of the Dove) in Perugia's war against Arezzo. The first well-organised mercenaries in Italy were the Ventura Companies of Duke Werner von Urslingen and Count Konrad von Landau. Werner's company differed from other mercenary ...
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 .
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)
Medieval mercenaries (5 C, 33 P) C. Conquistadors (7 C, 16 P) ... Pages in category "Mercenaries" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.