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Around the 12th century, Pavia became one of the most important Italian municipalities, with a considerable territorial extension that almost touched Milan. In the Seignoiries age, however, Pavia had to succumb to Milan; and, indeed, it was conquered by the Visconti of Galeazzo II in 1359.
A 1547 painting by Titian depicts King Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor. A French council of war, held after Francis captured Milan, was seriously divided over whether to pursue the retreating Imperialists or else turn south to attack Pavia and remove the threat that De Leyva’s garrison posed to the French flank.
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In the following centuries Pavia was an important and active town. Fights took place against Milan to gain the economic and political power until Pavia, conquered by the Visconti in 1315 and in 1359, remained chained to the rival town under the same Lordship.
The Battle of Pavia occurred in the midst of a much larger war: the Italian War, lasting from 1494 until 1559. The war saw the French king Francis I partner with the leader of the Republic of Venice against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and his comrades Henry VIII of England and the Papal States.
In the year 1359, the Galeazzo II Visconti conquered the city of Pavia, which became his base of operations. Those who were exiled from Pavia prior to the Visconti conquest were allowed to return and they were granted political amnesty.
- 1349 – 1378
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The Battle of Pavia, fought on the morning of 24 February 1525, was the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–1526 between the Kingdom of France and the Habsburg Empire of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor as well as ruler of Spain, Austria, the Low Countries, and the Two Sicilies.
Learn More. Battle of Pavia, (Feb. 24, 1525), the decisive military engagement of the war in Italy between Francis I of France and the Habsburg emperor Charles V, in which the French army of 28,000 was virtually annihilated and Francis himself, commanding the French army, was left Francis a prisoner of his archenemy, Hapsburg Emperor Charles V ...
