August–September 1524: Siege of Marseille (1524). Conducted by an Imperial army under Charles de Bourbon (who had recently betrayed Francis I) and Fernando de Avalos...

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...

noted during his visit that Marseille was poorly defended. The need to reinforce its defenses became even more obvious in 1524 after the Constable of Bourbon...

League of Cognac. He commanded the Battle of the Sesia (1524), and the siege of Marseille (1524) and Pavia (1525). He died of a sudden illness in Naples...

north-western Italy, Lombardy, on 30 April 1524, where the Imperial–Spanish forces commanded by Don Carlos de Lannoy and Fernando d'Avalos, Marquis of Pescara...

Fortifications constructed. 1481 - Marseille united with Provence. 1486 - Marseille becomes part of France. 1524 - Town besieged by forces of Francis...

Provence in 1524, in which they succeeded in looting the countryside but were forced to withdraw without having managed to conquer Marseille. After this...

Spain until March 1524. On 28 November 1521 Charles V and Henry VIII signed in secret the Treaty of Bruges. Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, the French...

the Spaniards. On 28 October 1524, at the side of his King, La Palice began the siege of Pavia, defended by Antonio de Leyva. When the Imperial-Spanish...

the European theater, and in the Mediterranean the French galleys of Marseilles were ordered to join the Ottoman fleet. In 1553, Dragut was nominated...

took part in the defence and resupply of Marseille during the city's siege by the constable de Bourbon in 1524. René rented the ship to his nephew France...

Toulon is the third-largest French city on the Mediterranean coast after Marseille and Nice. Toulon is an important centre for naval construction, fishing...

de Nice, 2007, 292 p. Yann Bouvier, « Antoine Escalin des Aimars (1498?–1578) – De la Garde-Adhémar au siège de Nice, le parcours d'un Ambassadeur de...

far-reaching consequences for Christianity and world politics. Elected in 1524 at the end of the Italian Renaissance, Clement came to the papacy with a...

involvement in the occult. Catherine de' Medici married Henry, Duke of Orléans, the future Henry II of France, in Marseille on 28 October 1533. She gave birth...

Chevalier Bayard in the siege of Mézières in the Ardennes, and in 1524 he commanded a company of gendarmes in the defense of Marseilles against the Imperial...

Moors had been going on for hundreds of years." Pope Eugene encouraged Marseilles, Pisa, Genoa, and other Mediterranean cities to fight in Iberia. He also...

Bourbon became bogged down besieging Marseille while François mustered a strong army at Avignon. On 29 September 1524, Bourbon recognised his efforts were...

Siege of Marseille (1522–1524) – Italian War of 1521–26 Conquest of Kalmar (1523) Conquest of Stockholm (1523) Siege of Fuenterrabía (1523–1524) – Italian...

twice participated in the defense of Marseille, first against the constable of Bourbon who raised the siege in 1524, and then against Charles V, Holy Roman...

1st arrondissement of Marseille. The street contains the 17th century Église de la Mission de France church. From 1215 until 1524, there was a friar's...

of Finance (Consejo de Hacienda) in 1523, the Council of the Indies (Consejo de las Indias) in 1524, the Council of War (Consejo de Guerra) in 1526, and...

month with 7,500 troops against 200,000 Ottomans at the Siege of Rhodes. Chevalier Bayard 1473–1524 French "The knight without fear and beyond reproach"...

figures such as John Calvin, Martin Bucer and Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck. In 1524, the city council assigned the cathedral to the Protestant faith, while the...

I of France, who laid siege to the city of Pavia (then part of the Duchy of Milan within the Holy Roman Empire) in October 1524 with 26,200 troops. The...

the Tour Royale with the Duke de Guise, Governor of Provence, to agree on a way to drive the Spaniards from Marseille, which had declared itself an independent...

Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Grand Master of the Knights of St. John, while he and the Pregeant of Bidoux were returning from Marseille and entering the...

the Kingdom of Castile. On his way towards Barcelona, Alfonso sacked Marseille, a possession of Louis III. In late 1423 the Genoese fleet of Filippo...

and formally incorporated Provence into France in 1486; its ports of Marseille and Toulon provided direct access to the Mediterranean and thus the ability...

(1537–1574) Monastir (1550–1554) Mahdia (1550–1553) Djerba (Yerba) (1521–1524 and 1559–1560) Tripoli (1510–1530; then ceded to the Knights Hospitaller...