Definition of Condottiere. Meaning of Condottiere. Synonyms of Condottiere

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Definition of Condottiere

Condottiere
Condottiere Con`dot*tie"re, n.; pl. Condottieri. [It., captain.] A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.

Meaning of Condottiere from wikipedia

- Condottieri (Italian: [kondotˈtjɛːri]; sg.: condottiero or condottiere) were Italian captains in command of mercenary companies during the Middle Ages...
- Le Condottière is a posthumous novel by the French writer Georges Perec, originally written between 1957 and 1960, but published in 2012 by the publishing...
- Rutger von Blum or Ruggero Flores, was an Italian military adventurer and condottiere active in Aragonese Sicily, Italy, and the Byzantine Empire. He was the...
- Italian condottiere...
- 1453, today in the Piazza del Santo in Padua, Italy. It portrays the condottiere Erasmo da Narni, known as "Gattamelata", who served mostly under the...
- of Francesco I, lord of Padua. John Hawkwood brought 1,100 of his own condottiere (600 cavalry and 500 archers, or vice versa depending on the source)...
- his grandson Orso (died July 5, 1479) was count of Nola and fought as condottiere under the Duke of Milan and the Republic of Venice. Later he entered...
- had been established by Federico da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by Pope Sixtus IV – Urbino formed...
- and appointed "apostolic legate, governor general, captain and general condottiere" in charge of it. Giovanni I Ventimiglia, Marquess of Geraci (1445 and...
- Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy. Pen and Sword, 2009. Murphy, David. Condottiere 1300–1500: Infamous Medieval Mercenaries. Oxford: Osprey, 2007. Early...