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Born June 26, 1467 • Naples • Italy
Died October 5, 1496 (aged 29) • Naples • Italy
Title / Office king (1495-1496), Kingdom of Naples
Role In Italian Wars
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Fernando Francesco de Avalos, marquis di Pescara
Italian military commander
Giovanni de' Medici
Giovanni de’ Medici
Italian leader
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Guglielmo Pepe
Italian soldier
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Niccolò Acciaiuoli
Italian statesman and soldier
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Muzio Attendolo Sforza
Italian condottiere
Painting by Jakob Seisenegger showing Emperor Charles V in ornate Renaissance attire standing beside a large hunting dog, with a green curtain in the background.
Charles V
Holy Roman emperor
Francis I
Francis I
king of France
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd duke de Alba, oil painting by Sir Antony More, 1549; in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3 duque de Alba
Spanish soldier and statesman
Alfonso V, bronze medal by Pisanello, 1448–49; in the Bargello, Florence
Alfonso V
king of Aragon and Naples
Lithograph portrait of Joachim Murat in an elaborate military uniform with epaulettes and medals, facing forward with a neutral expression.
Joachim Murat
king of Naples
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Charles III, 8th duke de Bourbon
French constable
Anne, Duke de Montmorency, drawing by the school of Clouet, c. 1560; in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France
Anne, duke de Montmorency
French noble
Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, engraving by P. Mariette, 16th century.
Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard
French soldier
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Robert
king of Naples
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Claude de Lorraine, 1st duke de Guise
French noble
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Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt
Swedish statesman
Fernández de Córdoba, Gonzalo
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
Spanish military commander
Monluc, engraving
Blaise de Lasseran-Massencôme, seigneur de Monluc
French soldier
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Philippe de Chabot, seigneur de Brion
French admiral
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Louis I
duke of Anjou

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