The Landsknechte (singular: Landsknecht, pronounced [ˈlantsknɛçt]), also rendered as Landsknechts or Lansquenets, were German mercenaries used in pike...

formation of 16th century mercenaries, largely pikemen, probably serving as Landsknechts. They fought in the French army for ten years, seeing service in several...

played with cards, named after the French spelling of the German word Landsknecht ('servant of the land or country'), which refers to 15th- and 16th-century...

mercenaries were increasingly supplanted by imitators, chiefly the Landsknechts. Landsknechts were Germans (at first largely from Swabia) and became proficient...

heap), the word Haufen itself being a general term for a company of Landsknecht. In French such a band was known as les enfants perdus— "the lost children"...

known as the primary weapon of Spanish tercios, Swiss mercenary, German Landsknecht units and French sans-culottes. A similar weapon, the sarissa, had been...

in more than five hundred years since the previous sack; in 1527, the Landsknechts of Emperor Charles V sacked the city, bringing an abrupt end to the golden...

The Battle of Pavia in 1525. Landsknecht mercenaries with arquebus....

fighting force, but they required organization and discipline. Each landsknecht maintained its own structure, called the gemein, or community assembly...

battle of Elfsborg (Alvesborg) in 1502 is provided by Paul Dolnstein, a landsknecht mercenary who fought in the battle, who refers to the Swedes carrying...

The Tross was the camp follower contingent of the Landsknecht mercenary regiments which originated at the end of the fifteenth century, and were the dominant...

nationally in Germany in the year 1941. The song refers to the Landsknecht movement. A Landsknecht is the name given to a mostly German mercenary of the late...

Fernández de Córdoba (El Gran Capitán) comprising 6,300 men, including 2,000 Landsknecht pikemen, 1,000 arquebusiers and 20 cannons, defeated the French force...

Frundsberg (24 September 1473 – 20 August 1528) was a German military and Landsknecht leader in the service of the Holy Roman Empire and Imperial House of...

armed forces, fänrik is the lowest commissioned rank. In the German Landsknecht armies (c. 1480), the equivalent rank of cornet existed for those men...

army often included numerous nationalities and languages. The normal Landsknecht regiment included one interpreter per 400 men, and interpreters were...

characteristics of a Zweihander as one of their main choices of weaponry. A landsknecht with Zweihänder Large two-handed swords in the White Tower (Tower of...

their brutal and ruthless efficiency, with a French saying going "a Landsknecht thrown out heaven couldn't get in hell because he would frighten the...

ISBN 0-85045-798-X Ffoulkes, Charles. The Armourer and his Craft. New York: Dover Publications, 1912. ISBN 0-486-25851-3 Jason Grimes, Landsknecht Pikeman Armour...

camp, took the French guns, pushed back the Landsknecht infantry regiments, and destroyed the Landsknecht squares. Caught off guard, the French heavy...

weighing 0.8–1.5 kg (1.8–3.3 lb), it was the signature blade of the Landsknecht. The katzbalger is a side-arm, often used by pikemen, archers, and crossbowmen...

risk, in exchange for double payment. The stated ratio was that one Landsknecht in four would be a Doppelsöldner. The Doppelsöldner of each company were...

professional soldiers during the 15th and 16th century, such as the Landsknecht. These names are subjective, and there are no known texts which clearly...

best medieval infantry force in Europe. With the French were German landsknechts, bitter rivals of the Swiss for fame and renown in war, and their late...

Albrecht Dürer's Syphilitic Man (1496), a woodcut believed to represent a Landsknecht, a Northern European mercenary. The myth of the femme fatale or "poison...

Zapfenstreich. This is a form of military tattoo that has its origins in the landsknecht era. The FRG reinstated this formal military ceremony in 1952, three...

against marauding landsknechts. In January 1525, Lannoy was reinforced by the arrival of Georg Frundsberg with 15,000 fresh landsknechts from Germany and...

Founding of the new St. Peter's Basilica. Sistine Chapel. 1527 The Landsknechts sack Rome. 1555 Creation of the Ghetto. 1585–1590 Urban reforms under...

Guebwiller, Buhl, and the Invasion of Germany. Asgaard PMC Freikorps Awards Landsknecht List of defunct Paramilitary Organizations List of Free Corps List of...

Typical Swiss or Landsknechts half-armour worn by foot soldiers in the 16th century, known in England as almain rivet....