1503 in France
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Events from the year 1503 in France
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- February 13 – Challenge of Barletta: Thirteen Italian knights defeat thirteen French knights in a duel, near Barletta.[1]
- February 23 – French–Spanish Wars in Italy – Battle of Ruvo: The Spanish defeat the French.[2]
- April 21
- Battle of Seminara: Spanish forces under Fernando de Andrade de las Mariñas defeat the French under Bernard Stewart, 4th Lord of Aubigny.[3]
- Battle of Cerignola: Spanish forces under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba defeat the French under Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours.[4]
- August 18 – 7 French cardinals are called to Rome for a papal conclave, to start in September following the death of Pope Alexander VI.
- November 11 – Bernard Stewart, 4th Lord of Aubigny, commander of the defeated French forces and a prisoner of war since his April 21 defeat at the Battle of Seminara, is released from Castel Nuovo in Naples after a truce between France and Spain.[5]
- December 29 – The Battle of Garigliano takes place near Gaeta in Italy. Spanish forces under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba defeat a French–Italian mercenary army under Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo.
Births
[edit]- December 14 – Michel de Nostredame, called Nostradamus, French physician, astrologer and writer of Les Propheties (1555) (d. 1566)[6]
Date unknown
[edit]- Jean Suau, French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal (d. 1566)
- Robert Estienne, French printer (d. 1559)[7]
- probable – Nicholas Bourbon, French poet[8]
Deaths
[edit]- April 28 – Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours, French nobleman, politician and military commander (b. 1472)
- July 24 – Louise of Savoy, member of French royal family and a Poor Clare nun (b. 1461)
Date unknown
[edit]- Jean Poyer, French painter (b. Unknown)
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Historia del combattimento de' tredici Italiani con altrettanti Francesi, fatto in Puglia tra Andria e Quarati (in Italian). Naples: Gabriele Porcelli. 1844. p. 5. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
- ^ Prescott, William Hickling (1859). History of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co. pp. 56–57. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
- ^ Almirante, José (1923). Bosquejo de la historia militar de España: hasta fines del siglo XVIII (in Spanish). Vol. 1. Sucesores de Rivadeneyra. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
- ^ Hans Delbrück (1985). History of the art of war within the framework of political history. Greenwood Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-8371-6365-9.
- ^ Cust, Lady Elizabeth (1891). Some Account of the Stuarts of Aubigny, in France: 1422-1672. Chiswick Press. p. 37. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
- ^ Nostradamus (1999). Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus. Wordsworth Editions. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-84022-301-9.
- ^ Cross, F. L.; Livingstone, E. A. (1 January 2009). Cross, F. L.; Livingstone, E. A. (eds.). "'Stephanus'". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780192802903.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-280290-3. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
- ^ Cornell Studies in Classical Philology. Cornell University Press. 1946. p. 84. Retrieved 21 June 2023.