GUERNIERI, or WERNER
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V12,
Page 671
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
GUERNIERI, or WERNER
, a celebrated mercenary captain who lived about the middle of the 14th century
.
He was a member of the family of the dukes of Urslingen, and probably a descendant of the dukes of Spoleto
.
From 1340 to 1343 he was in the service of the citizens of Pisa, but afterwards he collected a troop of adventurers which he called the Great Company, and with which he plundered Tuscany and Lombardy
.
He then entered the service of See also: - LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
I. the Great, See also: - KING
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of Hungary and Poland, whom he assisted to obtain possession of Naples; but when dismissed from this service his ravages became more terrible than ever, culminating in the dreadful sack of Anagni in 1358, shortly after which Guernieri disappeared from history
.
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