August–September 1524: Siege of Marseille (1524). Conducted by an Imperial army under Charles de Bourbon (who had recently betrayed Francis I) and Fernando de Avalos...

The Italian campaign of 1524–1525 was the final significant action of the Italian War of 1521–1526 launched by the French into Northern Italy. Led by Francis...

Fortifications constructed. 1481 - Marseille united with Provence. 1486 - Marseille becomes part of France. 1524 - Town besieged by forces of Francis...

noted during his visit that Marseille was poorly defended. The need to reinforce its defenses became even more obvious in 1524 after the Constable of Bourbon...

commanded the Battle of the Sesia (1524), and the siege of Marseille (1524) and Pavia (1525). In 1509, he married Francoise de Montbel, with whom he had several...

Provence in 1524, in which they succeeded in looting the countryside but were forced to withdraw without having managed to conquer Marseille. After this...

north-western Italy, Lombardy, on 30 April 1524, where the Imperial–Spanish forces commanded by Don Carlos de Lannoy and Fernando d'Avalos, Marquis of Pescara...

Spain until March 1524. On 28 November 1521 Charles V and Henry VIII signed in secret the Treaty of Bruges. Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, the French...

Knin (1522) Siege of Genoa (1522) – Italian War of 1521–26 Siege of Rhodes (1522) – Second siege of Rhodes Siege of Marseille (1522–1524) – Italian War...

the Spaniards. On 28 October 1524, at the side of his King, La Palice began the siege of Pavia, defended by Antonio de Leyva. When the Imperial-Spanish...

twice participated in the defense of Marseille, first against the constable of Bourbon who raised the siege in 1524, and then against Charles V, Holy Roman...

Marseille and Avignon joined the army of the Counts of Provence to fight the French. The French commander, Simon de Montfort, was killed at the siege...

Moors had been going on for hundreds of years." Pope Eugene encouraged Marseilles, Pisa, Genoa, and other Mediterranean cities to fight in Iberia. He also...

took part in the defence and resupply of Marseille during the city's siege by the constable de Bourbon in 1524. René rented the ship to his nephew France...

the Tour Royale with the Duke de Guise, Governor of Provence, to agree on a way to drive the Spaniards from Marseille, which had declared itself an independent...

granddaughter, Catherine de' Medici, to the future King Henry II of France, son of King Francis I. Due to an illness, before setting out to Marseille for the wedding...

involvement in the occult. Catherine de' Medici married Henry, Duke of Orléans, the future Henry II of France, in Marseille on 28 October 1533. She gave birth...

would be captured by the Genoese during the Imperial invasion of Marseille in 1524. After several years in captivity he would be released in 1526 as...

second largest French city by urban area on the Mediterranean coast after Marseille. Toulon is an important centre for naval construction, fishing, wine making...

I of France, who laid siege to the city of Pavia (then part of the Duchy of Milan within the Holy Roman Empire) in October 1524 with 26,200 troops. The...

French campaign of 1524–1525. In command of the royal rear-guard, Alençon followed the royal army into Italy where Pavia was laid siege to, after several...

Bourbon became bogged down besieging Marseille while François mustered a strong army at Avignon. On 29 September 1524, Bourbon recognised his efforts were...

Chevalier Bayard in the siege of Mézières in the Ardennes, and in 1524 he commanded a company of gendarmes in the defense of Marseilles against the Imperial...

siege of Fuenterrabía in 1523–1524, he assumed the rank as General-Captain of the Galleys of Spain by the death in 1526 of previous captain Juan de Velasco...

campaign of 1523 to 1524, Saint-Pol would take charge of the French army to lead its retreat from the peninsula after the seigneur de Bonnivet was wounded...

Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Grand Master of the Knights of St. John, while he and the Pregeant of Bidoux were returning from Marseille and entering the...

de Nice, 2007, 292 p. Yann Bouvier, « Antoine Escalin des Aimars (1498?–1578) – De la Garde-Adhémar au siège de Nice, le parcours d'un Ambassadeur de...

the 1st arrondissement of Marseille. The street contains the 17th-century Église de la Mission de France. From 1215 until 1524, there was a friar's convent...

figures such as John Calvin, Martin Bucer and Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck. In 1524, the city council assigned the cathedral to the Protestant faith, while the...

invaded Provence in the summer of 1524. Aix fell to his army on 8 August. He then settled in for a siege of Marseille, hoping it would serve as a bridgehead...