- The
Landsknechte (singular: Landsknecht,
pronounced [ˈlantsknɛçt]), also
rendered as
Landsknechts or Lansquenets, were
German mercenaries used in pike...
-
referred to as "Vater der
Landsknechte" (Father of the
Landsknechte) and
legends about him as the
patriarchal figure of the
Landsknechte or his
incredible physical...
- of the Late
Middle Ages and
became the
hallmark weapon of the
German Landsknechte from the time of
Maximilian I (d. 1519) and
during the
Italian Wars of...
- when two
opposing columns of
pikemen (often
Swiss Reisläufer or
German Landsknechte) met and
became locked in
position along a
front of
interleaved pikes...
- from
German doppel-
meaning double, Söldner
meaning mercenary) were
Landsknechte in 16th-century
Germany who
volunteered to
fight in the
front line, taking...
-
Weltstadt (Bielefeld, 1899 and 1906);
Kriegsbilder aus der Zeit der
Landsknechte (Stuttgart, 1883); Die öffentliche
Meinung in
Deutschland im Zeitalter...
- ISBN 978-0-253-06534-6. "
Landsknechte auf dem Weg ins
Dritte Reich?: Zu
Genese und
Wandel des Freikorpsmythos".
Landsknechte auf dem Weg ins
Dritte Reich...
- used. The
formation was
initially developed by the Holy
Roman Imperial (
Landsknechte) and
Spanish (Tercios) infantries, and
later by the
Dutch and Swedish...
- 000
Spaniards under the Duke of Bourbon, the army
included some 14,000
Landsknechte under Georg von Frundsberg; some
Italian infantry led by
Fabrizio Maramaldo...
-
nation per se),
relying on
German manpower as well as
utilizing fearsome Landsknechte and mercenaries,
would affect the way
neighbours viewed the
German polity...
