The Battle of the Seminar - the battle between the Spanish and French troops near the city of the Seminar on April 21, 1503 during the Second Italian War .
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| Main conflict: Second Italian War | |||
| date | April 21 , 1503 | ||
| A place | Seminar , Calabria , Italy | ||
| Total | Spain's victory | ||
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Background
Concluded on November 11, 1500, the Granada world divided the Neapolitan kingdom into Spanish ( Apulia and Calabria ) and French ( Campania and Abruzzo ) parts. In the future, both parties were in conflict over administrative issues, which ultimately resulted in cross-border clashes and the second Italian war.
More numerous French forces were divided into two armies: the Vice-King of Naples, Louis d'Armagnac, in Apulia, guarded Gonzalo Fernandez de Córdoba , who had taken shelter in Barletta , while Hugo de Cardona and Manuel de Benavides fought in Calabria. By the beginning of 1503, the son-in-law of Ferdinand II of Aragon Philip I of Castile signed with Louis XII a peace treaty in Lyon, but Ferdinand refused to confirm this document and the war continued.
Battle
In February, the Spanish flotilla of Luis Portocarrera sailed from Cartagena to Naples , following the order of Ferdinand II to support Gonzales de Cordoba . Under Louis there were 40 ships, 600 horsemen and 2,000 Asturian and Galician infantry [2] , with whom he arrived in Messina on 5 March. [3] He soon died, transferring the command to Don Fernando de Andrade .
Learning about the Spanish reinforcements, Bernard Stewart d'Aubigny, along with 200 horsemen and 800 infantrymen, went to Terranove . There, he turned the siege and moved to San Martino , while de Andrade gathered troops in the Seminar . After the negotiations, it was decided to start the battle on April 21, halfway between the Seminar and Joey Tauro . In the ensuing battle, the Spaniards defeated the French, who were then chased.
Implications
For 30 days, Bernard Stewart laid siege at the castle of Angeitola, [4] after which the prisoner was taken to Castel Nuovo . [5] With the destruction of the French troops, Calabria remained under the rule of Spain. A week later, de Cordoba in the Battle of Cherinola will crush the second French army.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Zurita Vol. V / cap. Xxv
- ↑ Zurita, VolV, cap. X.
- ↑ Zurita Vol. V / cap. X
- ↑ Pulgar. Conquistas del Reino de Nápoles p.169
- ↑ Crónica manuscrita, 374.
Links
Juan de Mariana, Historia general de España , pp. 94-98.
- Jerónimo Zurita, Don Fernando el Católico. De las empresas, y ligas de Italia .
- Hernán Pérez del Pulgar, Coronica llamada las dos conquistas del reino de Nápoles , incluida en las Crónicas del Gran Capitán , pp. 164-169.
- Historia manuscrita del Gran Capitán , autore anonimo contemporaneo, op. cit., pp. 372-374.
- Paolo Giovio: Fernando di Cordova Vita di Consalvo, Il Gran Capitano detto , tra casida al castellano por Pedro Blas Torrellas; op. cit., pp. 515-518.
- Francesco Guicciardini: Delle Istorie d'Italia , libro V, pp. 334-336.