See also:SIR See also:JOHN See also:HAWKWOOD (d. 1394)
, an See also:English adventurer who attained See also:great See also:wealth and renown as a See also:condottiere in the See also:Italian See also:wars of the 14th See also:century
.
His name is variously spelt as Haccoude, Aucud, Aguto, &c., by contemporaries
.
It is said that he was the son of a See also:tanner of Hedingham Sibil in See also:Essex, and was apprenticed in See also:London, whence he went, in the English See also:army, to See also:France under See also:Edward III. and the See also:Black See also:Prince
.
It is said also that he obtained the favour of the Black Prince, and received See also:knighthood from See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Edward III., but though it is certain that he was of knightly See also:rank, there is no See also:evidence as tothe See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time or See also:place at which he won it
.
On the See also:peace of Bretigny in 136o, he collected a See also:band of men-at-arms, and moved See also:south-See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
ward to See also:Italy, where we find the See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White See also:Company, as his men were called, assisting the See also:marquis of Monferrato against See also:Milan in 1362–63, and the Pisans against See also:Florence in 1364
.
After several See also:campaigns in various parts of central Italy, See also:Hawkwood in 1368 entered the service of Bernabo See also:Visconti
.
In 1369 he fought for See also:Perugia against the See also:pope, and in 1370 for the Visconti against See also:Pisa, Florence and other enemies
.
In 1372 he defeated the marquis of Monferrato, but soon afterwards, resenting the interference of a See also:council of See also:war with his plans, Hawkwood resigned his command, and the White Company passed into the papal service, in which he fought against the Visconti in 1373-1375
.
In 1375 the Florentines entered into an agreement with him, by which they were to pay him and his See also:companion 130,000 See also:gold florins in three months on See also:condition that he undertook no engagement against them; and in the same See also:year the priors of the arts and the gonfalonier decided to give him a See also:pension of 1200 florins per annum for as See also:long as he should remain in Italy
.
In 1377, under the orders of the See also:cardinal See also:Robert of See also:Geneva, See also:legate of See also:Bologna, he massacred the inhabitants of See also:Cesena, but in May of the same year, disliking the executioner's See also:work put upon him by the legate, he joined the See also:anti-papal See also:league, and married, at Milan, Donnina, an illegitimate daughter of Bernabo Visconti
.
In 1378 and 1379 Hawkwood was constantly in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field; he quarrelled with Bernabo in 1378, and entered the service of Florence, receiving, as in 1375, 130,000 gold florins
.
He rendered See also:good service to the See also:republic up to 1382, when for a time he was one of the English ambassadors at the papal See also:court
.
He engaged in a brief See also:campaign in See also:Naples in 1383, fought for the marquis of See also:Padua against See also:Verona in 1386, and in 1388 made an unsuccessful effort against Gian Galeazzo Visconti, who had murdered Bernabo
.
In 1390 the Florentines took up the war against Gian Galeazzo in See also:earnest, and appointed Hawkwood See also:commander-in-See also:chief
.
His campaign against the Milanese army in the Veronese and the See also:Bergamask was reckoned a See also:triumph of generalship, and in 1392 Florence exacted a satisfactory peace from Gian Galeazzo
.
His latter years were spent in a See also:villa in the neighbourhood of Florence
.
On his See also:death in 1394 the republic gave him a public funeral of great magnificence, and decreed the erection of a See also:marble See also:monument in the See also:cathedral
.
This, however, was never executed; but See also:Paolo Uccelli painted his portrait in terre-verte on the inner See also:facade of the See also:building, where it still remains, though damaged by removal from the See also:plaster to See also:canvas
.
See also:Richard II. of See also:England, probably at the instigation of Hawkwood's sons, who returned to their native See also:country, requested the Florentines to let him remove the good See also:knight's bones, and the Florentine See also:government signified its consent
.
Of his See also:children by Donnina Visconti, who appears to have been his second wife, the eldest daughter married See also:Count Brezaglia of Porciglia, See also:podesta of See also:Ferrara, who succeeded him as Florentine commander-in-chief, and another a See also:German condottiere named See also:Conrad Prospergh
.
His son, See also:John, returned to England and settled at Hedingham Sibil, where, it is supposed, See also:Sir John Hawkwood was buried
.
The children of the first See also:marriage were two sons and three daughters, and of the latter the youngest married John See also:Shelley, an ancestor of the poet
.
Au''rnoRITIES.—See also:Muratori,Rerusnitalicarumscriptores,and supplement by Tartinius and Manni; See also:Arch.ivio storico italiano; See also:Temple-See also:Leader and 1Vlarcotti, Giovanni Acnto (Florence, 1889; Eng. transl., Leader See also:Scott, London, 1889) ; See also:Nichol, Bibliotheca topographiea Britannica, vol. vi.; J
.
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.
See also:Alger in See also:Register and See also:Magazine of See also:Biography, v
.
1.; and See also:article in Dict
.
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.
Biog
.
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