The siege of Padua begins on September…

September 1509 CE

The siege of Padua begins on September 15.

Imperial and French artillery bombard the city for two weeks, successfully breaching the walls, but the attacking troops are driven back by determined Venetian resistance when they attempt to enter.

An assault by seventy-five hundred Landsknechts in the Codalunga sector of the walls (the one that has been most bombarded during the siege) is repulsed by mercenary commander Citolo da Perugia, whose mines kill three hundred attackers and injure four hundred others.

Maximilian, unable to pay his mercenaries, lifts the siege by September 30; leaving a small detachment in Italy under the Duke of Anhalt, he withdraws to Tyrol with the main part of his army.

The defeat is a major loss of face for Maximilian, and the Holy Roman Empire will not attempt another invasion of Italy until 1516.

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Padua > Padova Veneto Italy View →

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Alfonso d'Este View → Ferdinand II of Aragon View → Louis XII of France View → Maximilian I of View → Niccolò di Pitigliano View → Pope Julius II View →

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