The Great Company, one of the many…

1358 CE

The Great Company, one of the many “bands of adventure” of roving German and Hungarian mercenaries hired in 1351 by the league of Italian Guelph princes fighting Ghibelline-allied Milan, resorts to plundering and terrorizing the entire Italian peninsula, when the league can no longer meet the salary demands of the company

Florence, refusing to grant the marauders passage into Tuscany, closes the mountain passes and organizes the mountain people to defeat the mercenaries on July 24, 1358.

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