Sforza, who flees Milan to assemble an…
1500 CE
Sforza, who flees Milan to assemble an army, returns to find the city occupied by the French under Italian condottiere Gian Giacomo Trivulzio.
At the Battle of Novara in 1500, Sforza’s Swiss mercenaries refuse to fight their countrymen in French employ, thus enabling a victory by the French, who take Sforza back to France as prisoner.
Louis becomes Duke of Milan and, in the Treaty of Granada of 1500, agrees with Ferdinand of Aragon to divide the kingdom of the Two Sicilies—Sicily and Naples—thereby discounting the illegitimate claim of the Aragonese line.
However, as they carry out the division, they quarrel.
When the Treaty of Granada proves unworkable, Louis XII resumes the Italian Wars.
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