A quarrel with Bernardo soon ended the alliance, and Hawkwood instead signed an agreement with Florence.

* 1387 – Battle of Castagnaro: English condottiero Sir John Hawkwood leads Padova to victory in a factional clash with Verona.

Charles, who counted on the mercenary companies under John Hawkwood and Bartolomeo d ' Alviano, for a total of some 14, 000 men, was able to divert the French from Naples to other regions of the kingdom and to harass them with guerrilla tactics.

As shown by the painted equestrian Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood and that of Niccolò da Tolentino ( both in Florence Cathedral ), in 15th century Italy the form was associated specifically with condottieri.

If not paid, mercenaries like Hawkwood could threaten their employers with desertion or pillage.

Charles, who counted on the mercenary companies under John Hawkwood and Bartolomeo d ' Alviano, for a total of some 14, 000 men, was able to divert the French from Naples to other regions of the kingdom and to harass them with guerrilla tactics.

When Gregory XI's war against Milan ended in 1375, many Florentines feared that the pope would turn his military attention toward Tuscany ; thus, Florence paid off Gregory XI's main military commander, English condottiere John Hawkwood, with 130, 000 florins, extracted from local clergy, bishops, abbots, monasteries, and ecclesiastical institutions, by an eight-member committee appointed by the Signoria of Florence, the otto dei preti.

When Florence arranged a nonaggression pact with Hawkwood at a cost of 130, 000 florins, a special commission of eight citizens was created to levy a one-year, forced loan on the clergy of Florence and Fiesole to cover the sum.

In the 1390s Hawkwood became a commander-in-chief of the army of Florence in the war against the expansion of Gian Galeazzo Visconti of Milan.

Other correspondents include her various confessors, among them Raymond of Capua, the kings of France and Hungary, the infamous mercenary John Hawkwood, the Queen of Naples, members of the Visconti family of Milan, and numerous religious figures.

Hawkwood served first the Pope and then various factions in Italy for over 30 years.

John Hawkwood, papal condottiere in Gregory XI's wars against Milan

* Gordon Dickson wrote a series of several novels making reference to and featuring John Hawkwood as a character called the Childe Cycle ; The novels of the main Childe Cycle making reference to Hawkwood include:

** Cesena Bloodbath ( 1377 )-Papal and Breton mercenaries under John Hawkwood slaughtered more than 2, 000 citizens of Cesena.

In 1377, Hawkwood led the destruction of Cesena by mercenary armies, acting in the name of Pope Gregory XI.

Hawkwood moved to Burgundy and joined the small mercenary companies, also known as Free Companies, that fought for money in France.

The White Company, comprising men-at-arms and longbowmen and commanded by Sir John Hawkwood, is the best known English Free Company of the 14th century.

In 1436 he was given the commission for the monochromatic fresco of Sir John Hawkwood.

* Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood ( c. 1436 ) -

** John Hawkwood, English mercenary ( d. 1394 )

** John Hawkwood, English mercenary ( b. 1320 )

* March 11 – Battle of Castagnaro between the Italian cities of Verona and Padua: Padua, led by John Hawkwood, is victorious over Giovanni Ordelaffi of Verona.

In 1387 John Hawkwood won the Battle of Castagnaro for Padua, against Giovanni Ordelaffi, for Verona.

The White Company commanded by Sir John Hawkwood is the best known English Free Company of the 14th century.

A century or so later, in the hands of writers such as Jean Froissart, Miguel Cervantes and William Shakespeare, the fictional knight Tirant lo Blanch and the real-life condottieri John Hawkwood would be juxtaposed against the fantastical Don Quixote and the carousing Sir John Falstaff.

File: Firenze. Duomo. Hawkwood. JPG | Sir John Hawkwood ( fresco in the Duomo, Florence )

Nearby Petts Wood, Hawkwood and Scadbury have also been preserved as open spaces following local campaigns.

This asset expanded when the neighbouring Hawkwood Estate and Edlmann Wood, comprising a further 250 acres ( 100 hectares ), were donated to the Trust by landowners Robert and Francesca Hall in 1957.

Free company mercenary captains, such as Sir John Hawkwood, Roger de Flor of Catalan Company or Hugh Calveley could be considered as warlords.

In 1456 he executed in the Cathedral the fresco of the Equestrian Statue of Niccolò da Tolentino, paralleling the similar painting by Paolo Uccello portraying John Hawkwood.

However, the working guild of Free Fishers and Dredgers continued and still have rights, duties and responsibilities on the Medway, between Sheerness and Hawkwood Stone.

Novelist James McGee has written a series about a Runner named Matthew Hawkwood.

The year 1387 is also the year of the famous Battle of Castagnaro, between Giovanni Ordelaffi, for Verona, and John Hawkwood, for Padua, who was the winner.

This neutrality agreement was honored by both sides — for different reasons — until 1945.

Texaco also enters agreement with Howard Johnson's for Texaco credit card to be honored for charging of lodging and food at Howard Johnson motor lodges, a widespread trend of the time among major oil companies that would last until the 1973 oil crisis.

Therefore, any union conducting a strike action typically seeks to include a provision of amnesty for all who honored the picket line in the agreement that settles the strike.

Breach of contract is a legal cause of action in which a binding agreement or bargained-for exchange is not honored by one or more of the parties to the contract by non-performance or interference with the other party's performance.

Early in 1865, both sides in south Texas honored a gentlemen's agreement that there was no point to further hostilities.

At the time, WLII had a longtime local marketing agreement with another Puerto Rican station, WSTE, which Univision honored.

At the time, the game was being distributed in several countries under a master license agreement which the original licensee had not honored.

Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton was later shocked to find only three people within the fort but honored his agreement.

However, if that seller has the ability to sell a shirt to any customer that walks in, then the customer who breaches the agreement to buy has prevented the seller from earning profit that the seller would have earned had the agreement been honored.