Post by account_disabled on Mar 12, 2024 1:13:39 GMT -8
Some French authors close to the events celebrated Francis' courage in the fight –Sébastien Moreau de Villefranche, general endorser of the Duchy of Milan, referred to the monarch as “a true Roland, on foot and horseback”–. Others, however, were critical of the king's decision to expose his life. Marshal Florange, who commanded the Swiss mercenaries, reproached Francis in his memoirs for engaging in continuous skirmishes during the siege of Pavia, “not like a king but like a simple captain.” In the end, and despite the fact that he had fought with singular skill, the Valois tried in vain to escape from the battlefield. Deprived of his bodyguards, who had fallen one after another, protecting him, he was easy prey for his pursuers.
Who took Francis I prisoner has been the subject of controversy and disputes for centuries, since Charles V and the French monarch himself credited different soldiers as participating in the capture. These are the Gipuzkoan Juan de Urbieta , the B2B Email List Granada-born Diego de Ávila, the Galician Alonso Pita da Veiga and the Catalan Juan de Aldana. Likewise, the condottiere Cesare Hercolani claimed to be the author of the fatal wound that felled the king's horse. Urbieta obtained a document from Francisco I in which he recognized him as one of his captors. Likewise, Charles V granted him a coat of arms that he describes in great detail in his will, dated August , in Hernani:
A shield and inside the shield a green field, and next to the field the Tesin river, painted with the waves of the sea; and above the river a white field, and in the green field, below a half white horse, on its chest a fleur-de-lys with its crown, and the bit and red reins, and the rein fallen to the ground; and more an arm armed with his rapier raised above. All this is inside the shield. And above the shield, the imperial black eagle, divided into two heads, all painted, as it seems due to the privilege and favor that Her Majesty granted me for the imprisonment of the King of France, and other services.
Alonso Pita da Veiga , like Urbieta, obtained a document signed by Francisco I that credited him as one of the men who took him prisoner. Diego de Ávila, for his part, received a letter of privilege from Charles V, dated in Granada on July , , by virtue of which he would receive an annual income of , maravedíes for his role in the capture of Francisco I. In As for Juan de Aldana, a veteran who in Pavia had the rank of colonel and had fought, among other occasions, in the sieges of Salses and Perpignan (), the battle of Ravenna () and that of Bicoca (), Juan Francisco Andrés de Uztarroz, chief chronicler of Aragon in the time of Philip IV, in addition to crediting him as the captor of the French king, also mentions that Charles V granted him a coat of arms in reward for his actions.
Who took Francis I prisoner has been the subject of controversy and disputes for centuries, since Charles V and the French monarch himself credited different soldiers as participating in the capture. These are the Gipuzkoan Juan de Urbieta , the B2B Email List Granada-born Diego de Ávila, the Galician Alonso Pita da Veiga and the Catalan Juan de Aldana. Likewise, the condottiere Cesare Hercolani claimed to be the author of the fatal wound that felled the king's horse. Urbieta obtained a document from Francisco I in which he recognized him as one of his captors. Likewise, Charles V granted him a coat of arms that he describes in great detail in his will, dated August , in Hernani:
A shield and inside the shield a green field, and next to the field the Tesin river, painted with the waves of the sea; and above the river a white field, and in the green field, below a half white horse, on its chest a fleur-de-lys with its crown, and the bit and red reins, and the rein fallen to the ground; and more an arm armed with his rapier raised above. All this is inside the shield. And above the shield, the imperial black eagle, divided into two heads, all painted, as it seems due to the privilege and favor that Her Majesty granted me for the imprisonment of the King of France, and other services.
Alonso Pita da Veiga , like Urbieta, obtained a document signed by Francisco I that credited him as one of the men who took him prisoner. Diego de Ávila, for his part, received a letter of privilege from Charles V, dated in Granada on July , , by virtue of which he would receive an annual income of , maravedíes for his role in the capture of Francisco I. In As for Juan de Aldana, a veteran who in Pavia had the rank of colonel and had fought, among other occasions, in the sieges of Salses and Perpignan (), the battle of Ravenna () and that of Bicoca (), Juan Francisco Andrés de Uztarroz, chief chronicler of Aragon in the time of Philip IV, in addition to crediting him as the captor of the French king, also mentions that Charles V granted him a coat of arms in reward for his actions.