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Fernando Francesco de Avalos, marquis di Pescara
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Born 1490 • Naples • Italy
Died December 2, 1525 (aged 35) • Milan • Italy
Role In Battle of Pavia • Italian Wars
Charles V
Charles V
Holy Roman emperor
Giovanni de' Medici
Giovanni de’ Medici
Italian leader
Francis I
Francis I
king of France
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd duke de Alba, oil painting by Sir Antony More, 1549; in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3 duque de Alba
Spanish soldier and statesman
Charles III, 8th duke de Bourbon
French constable
Frundsberg, Georg von
Georg von Frundsberg
German military officer
Andrea Doria, detail of a portrait by Sebastiano del Piombo; in the Doria Palace, Rome.
Andrea Doria
Genoese statesman
Montecuccoli, portrait by an unknown artist, 1670; in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
Raimondo Montecuccoli
Austrian field marshal
Piccolomini-Pieri, Ottavio, duca d'Amalfi
Ottavio Piccolomini-Pieri, duca d’Amalfi
Austrian general
Ferdinand II
king of Naples
Albrecht von Wallenstein
Albrecht von Wallenstein
Bohemian military commander
Maximilian I
Maximilian I
Holy Roman emperor
Otto IV
Otto IV
Holy Roman emperor
Sigismund
Sigismund
Holy Roman emperor
Tilly, detail from an engraving by G. Kölez, 1631
Johann Tserclaes, count von Tilly
Bavarian general
Anne, Duke de Montmorency, drawing by the school of Clouet, c. 1560; in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France
Anne, duke de Montmorency
French noble
Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, engraving by P. Mariette, 16th century.
Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard
French soldier
Claude de Lorraine, 1st duke de Guise
French noble
Fernández de Córdoba, Gonzalo
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
Spanish military commander
Ferdinand III, detail from a portrait from the studio of Peter Paul Rubens; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Ferdinand III
Holy Roman emperor