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The Piccinino brothers, sons of famous condottiere Niccolò Piccinino and Captains-General before being replaced as supreme military commanders by Sforza, convinced the suspicious Republic to work secretly against Sforza.
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Piccinino and brothers
The Piccinino brothers became Captains-General once more, but were not as capable as the brilliant Sforza.
Sforza also faced treachery within his own ranks, added with the fact that he rashly accepted the defection of his great enemies the Piccinino brothers, who, upon gaining access to Monza, promptly returned it to Milan.
Piccinino and sons
Piccinino left two sons, Jacopo and Francesco, both condottieri.
Piccinino and condottiere
In 1442, the Visconti condottiere Niccolò Piccinino imprisoned Annibale and his supporters at Varano, but Annibale was freed by Galeazzo Marescotti in 1442.
Piccinino and Niccolò
After some initial drawbacks, he defeated the Neapolitan commander Niccolò Piccinino, who had invaded his possessions in Romagna and Marche, through the help of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta ( who had married his daughter Polissena ) and the Venetians, and could return to Milan.
** Niccolò Piccinino, Italian mercenary ( d. 1444 )
* date unknown – Niccolò Piccinino, Italian mercenary ( d. 1444 )
* In Italy, the siege of Brescia by the condottieri troops of Niccolò Piccinino is raised after the arrival of Scaramuccia da Forlì.
* October 15 – Niccolò Piccinino, Italian mercenary ( b. 1386 )
These concessions also were due to the invasion of the Papal States by the former Papal condottiero Niccolò Fortebraccio and the troops of Filippo Maria Visconti led by Niccolò Piccinino in retaliation for Eugene's support to Florence and Venice against Milan ( see also Wars in Lombardy ).
In 1442 Eugene, Alfonso and Visconti sent Niccolò Piccinino to reconquer the March of Ancona from Francesco Sforza, but the defeat of the allied army at the Battle of Montolmo pushed the Pope to reconcile with Sforza.
On June 14, 1453, Ludovico routed the troops of Carlo at Goito, but Venetian troops under Niccolò Piccinino thwarted any attempt to regain Asola.
* Niccolò Piccinino ( 1380 – 1444 )
In 1439 Brescia was once more besieged by Francesco Sforza, captain of the Venetians, who defeated Niccolò Piccinino, Filippo's condottiero.
Niccolò Piccinino ( 1386 – 15 October 1444 ) was an Italian condottiero.
Allegedly Niccolò Piccinino is the horseman 2nd from left.
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Florence's spies kept a close watch over the mails and soon intercepted letters from the Patriarch to Niccolò Piccinino, who was currently ravaging Tuscany with his warband.
( Allegedly from left to right is Francesco Piccinino ; Niccolò Piccinino ; Ludovico Trevisan ; Giovanni Antonio del Balzo Orsini.
In this period he fought several times against the other condottiero Niccolò Piccinino: first, in 1437, as a Venetian commander, he was defeated at Calcinara sull ' Oglio.
The Battle of San Romano was fought on June 1st 1432, some 30 miles outside Florence, between the troops of Florence, commanded by Niccolò da Tolentino, and Siena, under Francesco Piccinino.
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Piccinino and military
He began his military career in the service of Braccio da Montone, who at that time was waging war against Perugia on his own account, and at the death of his chief, shortly followed by that of the latter's son Oddo, Piccinino became leader of Braccio's condotta.
Piccinino and by
* In Italy, the siege of Cremona by the condottieri troops of Francesco Piccinino and Luigi dal Verme is raised after the arrival of Scaramuccia da Forlì.
In 1446 Cremona was encircled by the condottieri troops of Francesco Piccinino and Luigi dal Verme.
Cruel, paranoid and extremely sensitive about his personal ugliness, he was nevertheless a great politician, and by employing such powerful condottieri as Carmagnola, Piccinino — who unsuccessfully led his troops at the Battle of Anghiari, 1440 — and Francesco Sforza, he managed to recover the Lombard portion of his father's duchy.
When another papal army under Francesco Sforza defeated and killed Fortebraccio at Fiordimonte, Piccinino was left in sole command of the Visconti army, and in a series of campaigns against Sforza he seized a number of cities in Romagna by treachery.
The duke by way of reply concluded a truce with Sforza ; but the latter, who, while professing to defend the Papal States, had established his own power in the Marche, aroused the fears of the pope and the king of Naples, as well as of the Visconti, who gave the command of their joint forces to Piccinino.
Its territory, moreover, was frequently ravaged, notably in 1447 by Alfons V of Sicily and in 1455 by Jacopo Piccinino.
Later, while defending his lands from the papal invasion army led by Piccinino, Federico III da Montefeltro and Malatesta Novello, he crushed them at Monteluro, managing to obtain some territories of Pesaro, although the latter
Piccinino and Sforza
In the beginning Assisi fell under the rule of Perugia and later under several despots, such as the soldier of fortune Biordo Michelotti, Gian Galeazzo Visconti and his successor Francesco I Sforza, dukes of Milan, Jacopo Piccinino and Federico II da Montefeltro, lord of Urbino.
In 1439 Piccinino again fought in Lombardy with varying success against Sforza, who had now entered the Venetian service.
Again the war shifted to Lombardy, and Piccinino, having defeated and surrounded Sforza at Martinengo, demanded of the visconti the lordship of Piacenza as the price of Sforza's capture.
Sforza was driven from the Marche, but defeated Piccinino at Montelauro, and while the latter was preparing for a desperate effort against Sforza he was suddenly recalled to Milan, his army was beaten in his absence, and he died of grief and of his wounds in 1444.
Piccinino and against
* Battle of San Romano ( 1432 )-Niccolò da Tolentino, for Florence, against Francesco Piccinino, for Siena
* Battle of Anghiari ( 1440 )-Niccolò Piccinino, for Milan, against Florence, Papal States and Venice, under Micheletto Attendolo
Piccinino and .
In 1438, during the war between Venice and Milan, Piccinino, fighting for the duchy of Milan Filippo Maria Visconti, tried to take the city of Brescia, in Lombardy, but Scaramuccia da Forlì, fighting for Venice, intervened successfully to raise the siege.
Piccinino then induced the duke of Milan to send him to Umbria, where he hoped, like so many other condottieri, to carve out a dominion for himself.
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