…Francesco II Sforza, bringing further German reinforcements, …
Years: 1522 - 1522
January
…Francesco II Sforza, bringing further German reinforcements, has slipped past a Venetian force at Bergamo to join Colonna in Milan.
Francesco II is the second son of Ludovico Sforza and Beatrice d'Este.
When Ludovico was ousted from Milan in the course of the Italian Wars, he had brought Francesco with him to the court of the Emperor Maximilian I, who had married a Sforza, Francesco's cousin Bianca Maria.
Francesco had been assigned to an ecclesiastical career.
His father had been imprisoned in Loches by Louis XII of France, and died in 1508, but when Charles V re-conquered Milan from the French in 1521, Francesco had been appointed its duke, the last of the family to hold this title.
His sovereignty, however, remains circumscribed by the military occupation of Milan by Spanish troops.
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People
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- Francesco II Sforza
- Francesco Maria I della Rovere
- Francis I of France
- Giovanni dalle Bande Nere
- Odet of Foix
- Pedro Navarro
- Pope Adrian VI
- Prospero Colonna
- Thomas de Foix- Lescun
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- Venice, (Most Serene) Republic of
- Swiss mercenaries
- France, (Valois) Kingdom of
- Holy Roman Empire
- Urbino, Duchy of
- Milan, Duchy of
- Landsknechts
- Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of
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Years: 1522 - 1522
January
Locations
People
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- Francesco II Sforza
- Francesco Maria I della Rovere
- Francis I of France
- Giovanni dalle Bande Nere
- Odet of Foix
- Pedro Navarro
- Pope Adrian VI
- Prospero Colonna
- Thomas de Foix- Lescun
Groups
- Venice, (Most Serene) Republic of
- Swiss mercenaries
- France, (Valois) Kingdom of
- Holy Roman Empire
- Urbino, Duchy of
- Milan, Duchy of
- Landsknechts
- Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of
Topics
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions