The Battle of Pavia, Royal Armouries Museum Leeds

The Battle of Pavia, fought on the morning of February 24, 1525, was the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521. A Habsburg army[1] under the nominal command of Charles de Lannoy (and working in conjunction with the garrison of Pavia, commanded by Antonio de Leyva) attacked the French army under the personal command of Francis I of France in the great park of Mirabello outside the city walls. In the four-hour battle, the French army was split and defeated in detail. The French suffered massive casualties, including many of the chief nobles of France; Francis himself, captured by the Spanish troops, was imprisoned by Charles V and forced to sign the humiliating Treaty of Madrid, surrendering significant territory to his captor.

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[hermescadiz]

vivan los tercios españoles

[wasserflugzeug]

Y Cierra España!

Tuve la suerte de estar en ese museo. Muy bueno.

[GCmediacourse]

It was intresting to read about a battle I had never heard of. Well except in the Tudors were is mechanded

[lebrijano1000]

el avance de los soldados franceses de francisco I en lucha por el control del suelo italiano se detuvo en pavia.la tenaz resistencia de las tropas de carlos V sorprendio a los franceses que fueron obligados a retirarse.desde ese momento,el dominio español en italia fue absoluto.la derrota de las tropas francesas fue total.lombardia quedo asi en manos españolas durante los 2 siglos siguientes.

franceses: 27.000 unidades; 10.000 muertos

españoles:31.000 unidades; 1000 muertos

[sergius666]

Those men who captured king Francis of France were Spanish as it is documented,most troops were Spanish,and the Spanish blood was shed there.

Germany had nothing to neither did Austria,as they were under Charles I of Spain rule and the Holy Roman Empire.

Being Charles and Hasburg means nothing-he chose Spain as his home,lived there,worked there and he ruled from there and,doesn´t change the fact that Spain was victorious in Pavia,for Spanish glory up until today

[katalambda]

Spain and HRE belongs to the Habsburg dinasty but the Empire was ruled from Spain ;)

[BloodyKainBenidorm]

No my friend, Holy roman empire and Spain, were properties of Charles I of habsburg and after he death the dinasty was broken(between spanish branch and austrian branch)!!!

Not holy roman owner of Spain...

PD:This battle was a spanish victory, not imperial!

[Pourleduc]

Excuse me, but it was a good day for the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation that spain was a part of these days.

Austria Est Imperare Orbi Universo!

[PalabraHonorable]

A nice day for Spain hehe

¡Santiago y cierra, España!

¡¡VIVA ESPAÑA!!