The War of Urbino (1517) was a secondary episode of the Italian Wars.
The conflict ensued after the end of the War of the League of Cambrai (1508-1516), when Francesco Maria I della Rovere decided to take advantage of the situation to recover the Duchy of Urbino, from which he had been ousted in the previous year. The War of the League of Cambrai, sometimes known as the War of the Holy League and by several other names was a major conflict in the Italian Wars. Francesco Maria I della Rovere ( March 22, 1490 &ndash October 20, 1538) was an Italian Condottiero, who was The Duchy of Urbino was a sovereign state of northern Italy The first lords of Urbino were the Montefeltro who obtained the title of counts from Emperor Frederick
In the early 1517 he presented himself under the walls of Verona to hire the troops which had besieged the city, now to be returned to the Republic of Venice. Verona is a city and provincial capital in Veneto, Northern Italy. The Most Serene Republic of Venice ((Serenìsima Repùblica Vèneta or Repùblica de Venesia Serenissima Repubblica Della Rovere set off with an army of some 5,000 infantry and 1,000 horse which he entrusted to Federico Gonzaga lord of Bozzolo, reaching the walls of Urbino on January 23, 1517. Urbino is a walled city in the Marche region in Italy, south-west of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical Events 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor
He defeated the Papal condottiero Francesco del Monte and entered the city hailed by the population. The Papal States, State(s of the Church or Pontifical States (in Italian Stato Ecclesiastico, Stato della Chiesa, Stati della Chiesa Condottieri (singular condottiero, rarely condottiero) were Mercenary leaders employed by the Italian City-states from the Late Middle
Pope Leo X reacted by hastily hiring an army of 10,000 troops under Lorenzo II de' Medici, Renzo di Ceri, Giulio Vitelli and Guido Rangoni and sending it against Urbino. Pope Leo X, born Giovanni de' Medici (December 11 1475 – December 1 1521 was Pope from 1513 to his death Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici ( September 12 September 9 ---> 1492 &ndash May 4 April 5 ---> 1519 was the Renzo di Ceri, true name Lorenzo dell'Anguillara (1475 or 1476 &ndash January 1536 was as an Italian Condottiero. Lorenzo was wounded by an arquibuse ball on April 4 during the siege of the Mondolfo castle, and returned to Tuscany. Events 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. Mondolfo is a Comune (municipality in the Province of Pesaro e Urbino in the Italian region Marche, located about 35 km northwest He was replaced by Cardinal Bibbiena. Bernardo Dovizi or Bibbiena ( August 4, 1470 &ndash November 9 1520) was an Italian cardinal and Comedy The latter was however unable to control the troops, and, defeated with relevant losses at Monte Imperiale, was forced to retreat to Pesaro. Poggibonsi is a Town in the Province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy. Pesaro is a town and Comune in the Italian region of the Marche, capital of the Pesaro e Urbino province, on the Adriatic.
The war was however ended by the lack of money of Francesco Maria della Rovere, who soon found himself unable to pay the troops hired at Verona. After some unfruitful ravages in Tuscany and Umbria, he began to seek for a diplomatic settlement with the pope. In September they signed a treaty by which della Rovere was relieved of all ecclasiastical censures and was left free to retreat to Mantua with all his artilleries, as well as the rich library collected in Urbino by the former duke Federico III da Montefeltro. Federico da Montefeltro, also known as Federico III da Montefeltro ( Castello di Petroia, June 7, 1422 &ndash Ferrara, September
The war saw the first appearance of Giovanni dalle Bande Nere on the battlefield. Giovanni de' Medici, also known as Giovanni dalle Bande Nere ( April 5, 1498 - November 30, 1526) was an Italian Condottiero
References
- Rendina, Claudio (1994). I capitani di ventura. Newton Compton.
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