Mercenaries

[edyzmedieval]

Ok.... Topic very very interesting to me...

Give me some info about the mercenaries from Medieval Europe.... I mean, about troops, history, who hired them...

Also, if you can, will you please give me some links to find out morE???

Thnx! :book:

[Krusader]

Wiki: Mercenaries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenaries)

Varangian Guard site (http://www.geocities.com/egfrothos/Varangians.html) (Posted by some other member on these boards in another thread. Can't recall whom and which thread)

Swiss Guards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Guard)

Condottieri. The leaders of mercenaries in Italy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condottieri)

Almogavares (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almogavares)

Catalan Company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Company)

Otherwise, from what I've read many medieval kingdoms hired mercenaries, but the most prominent are probably Byzantium, Italian city-states & the taifa kingdoms of Al-Andalus.

[King Henry V]

Flemish mercenaries were also quite popular with western European kings in the early middle ages.