She heard the leader of her father's hired Landsknecht shout again.

After his family had been ennobled in 1557 he went overseas as a Landsknecht.

However, the Swiss outlawed their use, while the Landsknecht kept using them until much later.

Another sack occurred in 1511 by Landsknecht troops.

The Landsknecht and the Swiss were regarded as the finest infantry of the time.

He was in Pavia to serve as captain of the Landsknecht regiment.

Measuring 75-85 cm long and weighing 1-2 kg, it was the signature blade of the Landsknecht.

The peasant armies were organized in bands (Haufen), similar to the Landsknecht.

The second was the Germanic Landsknecht sword.

The Lanzi were the armed guards, the term being an Italian form of Landsknecht.

In the Etrian Odyssey series, Landsknecht is a playable class.

These were German landsknecht mercenaries who had refused to return home and instead served loyally under Francis.

Each Landsknecht maintained its own structure, called the Gemein, or community assembly, which was symbolized by a ring.

The Landsknecht regiments first installed Feldwaibel to keep the men at line at the battlefield.

He wrote a diary which gives a unique historic record of the life in the contemporary army from the viewpoint of a simple Landsknecht.

On May 1, 1527 a Landsknecht company, after having sacked Rome, arrived out of the bordering villages.

The Landsknecht (1876)

Richards, John, Landsknecht Soldier 1486-1550, 2002.

One of the most visible traditions is the Großer Zapfenstreich, a form of military tattoo that goes back to the landsknecht era.

Ice (Hitomi Landsknecht)

Peasant Haufen divided along territorial lines, whereas those of the Landsknecht drew men from a variety of territories.

The Landsknechte wear colorful Renaissance-style Landsknecht costumes.

It belonged to the leader of the small group of Landsknecht whom her father had hired in Amsterdam to escort them to Badenburg.

Casualty figures are unreliable but estimates range from 3,000-10,000 while the Landsknecht casualites were as few as six (two of whom were only wounded).

In the Late Middle Ages, the system of Burgmann disappeared and the castles were protected by Landsknecht.