Battle of Marignano
| Battle of Marignano | |||||||||
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| Part of the War of the League of Cambrai | |||||||||
Francis I Orders His Troops to Stop Pursuing the Swiss Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Kingdom of France Venice |
Old Swiss Confederacy Milan | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Francis I Gian Giacomo Trivulzio Bartolomeo d'Alviano Louis de la Trémoille Charles III, Duke of Bourbon Charles IV, Duke of Alençon |
Marx Röist Maximilian Sforza Cardinal Mattheus Schiner | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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22,000 infantry 200 cavalry | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 5,000 dead | 10,000 dead | ||||||||
The Battle of Marignano, (or bataille de Marignan in French) which took place on 13–14 September 1515, near the town now called Melegnano, 16 km southeast of Milan, was the last major engagement of the War of the League of Cambrai. It pitted the French army, led by Francis I, newly crowned King of France, against the Old Swiss Confederacy. With the French were German landsknechts, and their late-arriving Venetian allies.
The battle resulted in a decisive French victory and the signing of the Treaty of Fribourg, known as the "Perpetual Peace" (Ewiger Frieden, Paix perpétuelle).