The Landsknechte (singular: Landsknecht, pronounced [ˈlantsknɛçt]), also rendered as Landsknechts or Lansquenets, were German mercenaries used in pike...
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formation of 16th century mercenaries, largely pikemen, probably serving as Landsknechts. They fought in the French army for ten years, seeing service in several...
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Lansquenet (redirect from Landsknecht (card game))
played with cards, named after the French spelling of the German word Landsknecht ('servant of the land or country'), which refers to 15th- and 16th-century...
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camp, took the French guns, pushed back the Landsknecht infantry regiments, and destroyed the Landsknecht squares. Caught off guard, the French heavy...
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heap), the word Haufen itself being a general term for a company of Landsknecht. In French such a band was known as les enfants perdus— "the lost children"...
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mercenaries were increasingly supplanted by imitators, chiefly the Landsknechts. Landsknechts were Germans (at first largely from Swabia) and became proficient...
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armed forces, fänrik is the lowest commissioned rank. In the German Landsknecht armies (c. 1480), the equivalent rank of cornet existed for those men...
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Georg von Frundsberg (category Landsknechts)
Frundsberg (24 September 1473 – 20 August 1528) was a German military and Landsknecht leader in the service of the Holy Roman Empire and Imperial House of...
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particularly well known as the primary weapon of Swiss mercenary, German Landsknecht units and French sans-culottes. A similar weapon, the sarissa, had been...
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battle of Elfsborg (Alvesborg) in 1502 is provided by Paul Dolnstein, a landsknecht mercenary who fought in the battle, who refers to the Swedes carrying...
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fighting force, but they required organization and discipline. Each landsknecht maintained its own structure, called the gemein, or community assembly...
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in more than five hundred years since the previous sack; in 1527, the Landsknechts of Emperor Charles V sacked the city, bringing an abrupt end to the golden...
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Fernández de Córdoba (El Gran Capitán) comprising 6,300 men, including 2,000 Landsknecht pikemen, 1,000 arquebusiers and 20 cannons, defeated the French force...
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The Battle of Pavia in 1525. Landsknecht mercenaries with arquebus....
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ISBN 0-85045-798-X Ffoulkes, Charles. The Armourer and his Craft. New York: Dover Publications, 1912. ISBN 0-486-25851-3 Jason Grimes, Landsknecht Pikeman Armour...
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nationally in Germany in the year 1941. The song refers to the Landsknecht movement. A Landsknecht is the name given to a mostly German mercenary of the late...
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Tross (category Landsknechts)
The Tross was the camp follower contingent of the Landsknecht mercenary regiments which originated at the end of the fifteenth century, and were the dominant...
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Doppelsöldner (category Landsknechts)
risk, in exchange for double payment. The stated ratio was that one Landsknecht in four would be a Doppelsöldner. The Doppelsöldner of each company were...
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army often included numerous nationalities and languages. The normal Landsknecht regiment included one interpreter per 400 men, and interpreters were...
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and directed their Landsknecht troops toward Frankenhausen.[page needed] The princes had great difficulties in recruiting Landsknecht mercenaries. Generally...
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their brutal and ruthless efficiency, with a French saying going "a Landsknecht thrown out heaven couldn't get in hell because he would frighten the...
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weighing 0.8–1.5 kg (1.8–3.3 lb), it was the signature blade of the Landsknecht. The katzbalger is a side-arm, often used by pikemen, archers, and crossbowmen...
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professional soldiers during the 15th and 16th century, such as the Landsknecht. These names are subjective, and there are no known texts which clearly...
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Swiss mercenaries and German Landsknechts fighting for glory, fame and money at the Battle of Marignan (1515). The bulk of the Renaissance armies was composed...
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Zapfenstreich. This is a form of military tattoo that has its origins in the landsknecht era. The FRG reinstated this formal military ceremony in 1952, three...
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had been burned down and whose kinfolk had been killed by a marauding Landsknecht regiment. Since the regiment had been employed by the Habsburg authorities...
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Typical Swiss or Landsknechts half-armour worn by foot soldiers in the 16th century, known in England as almain rivet....
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Founding of the new St. Peter's Basilica. Sistine Chapel. 1527 The Landsknechts sack Rome. 1555 Creation of the Ghetto. 1585–1590 Urban reforms under...
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contact. In one surviving letter, Boden refers to Heinrich Himmler as the "Landsknecht with the hard heart" but she was nevertheless impressed by his romantic...
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Guebwiller, Buhl, and the Invasion of Germany. Asgaard PMC Freikorps Awards Landsknecht List of defunct Paramilitary Organizations List of Free Corps List of...
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