- Francesco Piccinino
Francesco Piccinino (c. 1407 -
October 16 1449 ) was an Italiancondottiero .He was the adoptive son of the condottiero
Niccolò Piccinino and the brother ofJacopo Piccinino . At Niccolò's death (1444), he had been already established as a gallant warrior under theDuchy of Milan and thePapal States (1431). In 1436 he was serving the Aragonese Kings of Naples, taking part in the 1437 siege ofCerreto Umbra againstFrancesco Sforza but, after some successes, he left to besiegeAssisi and then Pergola.In 1440 he was in the
battle of Anghiari , where Niccolò was badle defeated, and onaugust 19 1444 he was again defeated by the Sforza's forces atMontolmo and taken prisoner, while Jacopo was able to escape.In
1446 Piccinino fought againstMicheletto Attendolo nearCremona ;Scaramuccia da Forlì , sent by the Venetian government, freeing Cremona by the troops of Piccinino andLuigi dal Verme , paid byFilippo Maria Visconti . OnSeptember 28 of the same year Piccinino suffered first a defeat atCasalmaggiore and, in 1447, a more serious one atMonte Brianza .Despite this setbacks, he managed to gain a contract under the newly-formed Republic of Milan, together with Jacopo, in order to thwart Sforza's aims to the city. He however fell ill of
edema and died in 1449. Six years before he had married Camilla da Montone, daughter of the condottieroBraccio da Montone .ources
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Condottieri
*Wars in Lombardy
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