Siege of Milan (1523)
| Siege of Milan (1523) | |||||||
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| Part of Italian War of 1521–1526 | |||||||
Federico II Gonzaga enters Milan victoriously | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Kingdom of France Old Swiss Confederacy |
Papal States Spanish Empire Republic of Venice | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Guillaume Gouffier Jacques de La Palice François de Bourbon Anne de Montmorency Pierre Terrail Robert III de La Marck Richard de la Pole Galeazzo Sanseverino Ludovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso |
Federico II Gonzaga Prospero Colonna Francesco II Sforza Giovanni delle Bande Nere Antonio de Leyva Camillo Orsini | ||||||
The Siege of Milan in 1523 was a military episode of the Italian War of 1521–1526 . The city's garrison, led by Prospero Colonna, managed to resist for almost two months a siege carried out by a numerically superior French army under the command of Grand Admiral Guillaume Gouffier de Bonnivet, who eventually abandoned the enterprise due to the impossibility of starving them out and the risk of being cut off from supplies himself.