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Engraving based on fresco of John Hawkwood Arms of Hawkwood: Argent, on a chevron sable three escallops of the field, as seen on his fresco in the Duomo, Florence. Sir John Hawkwood (c. 1323 – 17 March 1394) was an English soldier who served as a mercenary leader or condottiero in Italy. As his name was difficult to pronounce for non-English ...
Genoese politician and mercenary leader. John Hawkwood: 1323–1394 1360–1392 Florence: Lobar the Wolf: Leader of Brabançon mercenaries that fought in numerous battles all across Europe in the latter half of the twelfth century. Martin Schwartz: 1475–1487 Germanic mercenary who fought for Lambert Simnel, a Yorkist pretender to the English ...
Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood, fresco on canvas by Paolo Uccello (1436). The White Company (Italian: Compagnia Bianca del Falco) was a 14th-century English mercenary Free company (Italian: Compagnia di ventura), led from its arrival in Italy in 1361 to 1363 by the German Albert Sterz and later by the Englishman John Hawkwood.
Johannes Grant or Johannis Grandi [1] was a mercenary employed by the Byzantine Empire at the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Contemporary Greek and Latin accounts referred to him as being German, [2] [3] although Runciman has suggested he may actually have been a Scot named John Grant. [4]
4.4 Latin America. 4.4.1 Nicaragua. 4.4.2 ... but rather a mercenary imposer. [129] John K. Singlaub who worked alongside Hall described him as suffering from a ...
John Filipec, on behalf of the new king, helped to convince Silesian Black Army leader John Haugwitz to return to duty in exchange for 100,000 forints. The Hungarian–Czech army of 18,000 met the Polish troops in December 1491 in the Battle of Eperjes ( Prešov ), which was a decisive victory for the Black Army. [ 42 ]
Alberico da Barbiano (c. 1344 – 1409) was the first of the Italian condottieri.His master in military matters was the English mercenary John Hawkwood, known in Italy as Giovanni Acuto.
The first mercenary company with an Italian as its chief was the "Company of St. George" formed in 1339 and led by Lodrisio Visconti. This company was defeated and destroyed by Luchino Visconti of Milan (another condottiero and uncle of Lodrisio) in April 1339.