The Battle of Cerignola is fought on April 28, 1503, between Spanish and French armies, in Cerignola, near Bari in Southern Italy.
Spanish forces, under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, formed by sixty-three hundred men, including two thousand landsknechte, with more than a thousand arquebusiers, and twenty cannon, defeated the French, who have nine thousand men; mainly heavy gendarme cavalry and Swiss mercenary pikemen, with about forty cannon, and led by Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours, who is killed.
