Frundsberg, GEORG VON, the great leader of the German landsknechte during the Italian wars of the emperors Maximilian and Charles V., was born in 1473 at Mindelheim in Swabia, and there he died in 1528. He fought in twenty pitched battles, besides sieges and skirmishes without number; and the victory of Pavia (1525) was largely due to him. Two years later he was marching on Rome with the Constable de Bourbon, when a mutiny of his soldiers brought on a stroke of apoplexy. See monographs by Barthold (1833) and Heilmann (1868).
Frundsberg, GEORG VON
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 22
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