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1503
Events from the year 1503 in France.
Incumbents
Monarch –Louis XII
Events
February 13 – Challenge of Barletta: Thirteen Italian knights defeat thirteen French knights in a duel, near Barletta.https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_GoNycOwblO4C/page/n3/mode/2up?q=Tredici Historia del combattimento de' tredici Italiani con altrettanti Francesi, fatto in Puglia tra Andria e Quarati 1844 Gabriele Porcelli Naples 5 it 18 June 2023
February 23 – French–Spanish Wars in Italy – Battle of Ruvo: The Spanish defeat the French.Prescott William Hickling https://archive.org/details/historyreignfer05unkngoog/page/56/mode/2up?q=23 History of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic 1859 Phillips, Sampson, & Co. Boston 56–57 19 June 2023
April 21
Battle of Seminara: Spanish forces under Fernando de Andrade de las Mariñas defeat the French under Bernard Stewart, 4th Lord of Aubigny.Almirante José https://books.google.com/books?id=qU5YAAAAcAAJ&q=%2221%20de%20abril%20de%201503%22 Bosquejo de la historia militar de España: hasta fines del siglo XVIII 1923 Sucesores de Rivadeneyra 1 es 19 June 2023
Battle of Cerignola: Spanish forces under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba defeat the French under Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours.Hans Delbrück https://books.google.com/books?id=1oEpAQAAIAAJ History of the art of war within the framework of political history Greenwood Press 1985 978-0-8371-6365-9 73 en
August 18 – 7 French cardinals are called to Rome for a papal conclave, to start in September following the death of Pope Alexander VI.
November 11 – Bernard Stewart, 4th Lord of Aubigny, commander of the defeated French forces and a prisoner of war since his April 21 defeat at the Battle of Seminara, is released from Castel Nuovo in Naples after a truce between France and Spain.Cust Lady Elizabeth https://books.google.com/books?id=XzXwr3-q3DAC&dq=11+dAubigny+1503+dAubigny+castel+nuovo&pg=PA37 Some Account of the Stuarts of Aubigny, in France: 1422-1672 1891 Chiswick Press 37 en 20 June 2023
December 29 – The Battle of Garigliano takes place near Gaeta in Italy. Spanish forces under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba defeat a French–Italian mercenary army under Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo.
Births
December 14 – Michel de Nostredame, called Nostradamus, French physician, astrologer and writer of Les Propheties (1555) (d. 1566)Nostradamus https://books.google.com/books?id=LVaWbAJWc9wC&pg=PR11 Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus Wordsworth Editions 1999 978-1-84022-301-9 11 en
Date unknown
Jean Suau, French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal (d. 1566)The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of December 20, 1555 https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1555-ii.htm#Suau 2025-02-02 cardinals.fiu.edu
Robert Estienne, French printer (d. 1559)Cross F. L. Livingstone E. A. 1 January 2009 'Stephanus' https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780192802903.001.0001/acref-9780192802903-e-6525?rskey=bmOXG1&result=6501 21 June 2023 The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Oxford University Press en 10.1093/acref/9780192802903.001.0001 978-0-19-280290-3 F. L. E. A. Cross Livingstone
probable – Nicholas Bourbon, French poethttps://books.google.com/books?id=KaMfAQAAMAAJ&q=%22son%20of%20an%20iron%22 Cornell Studies in Classical Philology 1946 Cornell University Press 84 en 21 June 2023 28
Deaths
April 28 – Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours, French nobleman, politician and military commander (b. 1472)
July 24 – Louise of Savoy, member of French royal family and a Poor Clare nun (b. 1461)
Date unknown
Jean Poyer, French painter (b. Unknown)
See also
France History Lists1503
References
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