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GEORG VON FRUNDSBERG (1473-1528)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 270 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRUNDSBERG (1473-1528)  , See also:German soldier, was See also:born at Mindelheim on the 24th of See also:September 1473 . He fought for the German See also:king See also:Maximilian I. against the Swiss in 1499, and in the same See also:year was among the imperial troops sent to assist Ludovico See also:Sforza, See also:duke of See also:Milan, against the See also:French . Still serving Maximilian, he took See also:part in 1504 in the See also:war over the See also:succession to the duchy of See also:Bavaria-See also:Landshut, and after-wards fought in the See also:Netherlands . Convinced of the See also:necessity of a native See also:body of trained See also:infantry See also:Frundsberg assisted Maximilian to organize the Landsknechte (q.v.), and subsequently at the See also:head of bands of these formidable troops he was of See also:great service to the See also:Empire and the Habsburgs . In 1509 he shared in the war against See also:Venice, winning fame for himself and his men; and after a See also:short visit to See also:Germany returned to See also:Italy, where in 1513 and 1514 he gained fresh laurels by his enterprises against the Venetians and the French . See also:Peace being made, he returned to Germany, and at the head of the infantry of the Swabian See also:league assisted to drive See also:Ulrich of See also:Wurttemberg from his duchy in 1519 . At the See also:diet of See also:Worms in 1521 he spoke words of encouragement to See also:Luther, and when the struggle between See also:France and the Empire was renewed he took part in the invasion of See also:Picardy, and then proceeding to Italy brought the greater part of See also:Lombardy under the See also:influence of See also:Charles V. through his victory at Bicocca in See also:April 1522 . He was partly responsible for the great victory over the French at See also:Pavia in See also:February 1525, and, returning to Germany, he assisted to suppress the See also:Peasant revolt, using on this occasion, however, See also:diplomacy as well as force . When the war in Italy was renewed Frundsberg raised an See also:army at his own expense, and skilfully surmounting many difficulties, joined the See also:constable de See also:Bourbon near See also:Piacenza and marched towards See also:Rome . Before he reached the See also:city, however, his unpaid troops showed signs of See also:mutiny, and their See also:leader, stricken with illness and unable to pacify them, gave up his command . Returning to Germany, he died at Mindelheim on the loth of See also:August 1528 . He was a capable and chivalrous soldier, and a devoted servant of the Habsburgs .

His son Caspar (1500–1536) and his See also:

grandson Georg (d . 1586) were both soldiers of some distinction . With the latter's See also:death the See also:family became See also:extinct . See See also:Adam Reissner, Historia Herrn Georgs and Herrn Kaspars von Frundsberg (See also:Frankfort, 1568) . A German See also:translation of this See also:work was published at Frankfort in 1572 . F . W . Barthold, Georg von Frundsberg (See also:Hamburg, 1833) ; J . Heilmann, Kriegsgeschichle von Bayern, Franken, Pfalz and Schwaben (See also:Munich, 1868) .

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