Venice: November 1543 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 5, 1534-1554. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1873.

'Venice: November 1543', in Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 5, 1534-1554, (London, 1873) pp. 120-121. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol5/pp120-121 [accessed 26 April 2024]

November 1543



Nov. 12. Deliberazioni Senato (Secreta), v. lxiii. p. 75.	302. The Doge and Senate to the Venetian “Bailo” at Constantinople.
	Have heard from France that the French and Imperial cavalry encountered each other near Guise, a French town on the frontiers. Some were killed on both sides, but the French had the advantage, and captured several Imperialists, including Don Francesco da Este, brother of the Duke of Ferrara, and the Signor Alessandro Gonzaga, kinsman of the Duke of Mantua. The French and Imperial armies were both very powerful, and distant some thirty Italian miles from each other in the direction of Landrecy, a place which belonged at first to the Emperor and was taken by the French, who kept and fortified it, siege being laid by the troops of the Emperor and the King of England. The Signory's letters from Flanders, dated the 1st instant, now state that the Imperialists have raised the siege of Landrecy, in order to unite their whole army, so that the King of France is at liberty to victual and re-enforce the place; and the hostile armies were within six miles of each other, and a battle was expected.
	Ayes, 177. Noes, 9. Neutrals, 0.
	[Italian.]