Giovanni Battista Castaldo

Giovanni Battista Castaldo (* 1493 in Nocera de 'Pagani , † January 6, 1563 in Milan ) was an Italian condottiere and general .

Castaldo had risen to serve in the Imperial Army. In various military conflicts he was in the service of Emperor Charles V . In 1551 he was sent to Transylvania as a military leader of King Ferdinand in the fight against the Ottoman Empire under Suleyman I. After the imperial troops under General Castaldo invaded Transylvania, the Ottomans reacted with raids on the Banat . In December 1551 Castaldo arranged the assassination of the Transylvanian Cardinal Georg Martinuzzi .

literature

Walter Friedensburg: Charles V's preparations for war (1546). A memorandum of Giovanni Battista Castaldo. In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries (QFIAB) 4, 1902, pp. 63–71.

Web links

Commons : Giambattista Castaldo - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ From the Kingdom of Hungary to the Principality of Transylvania. In: mek.oszk.hu. Retrieved January 1, 2009 .
↑ Arnold Huttmann: A Flemish physician of the 16th century in Transylvania and Austria . In: Historical yearbook of the city of Linz 1958 . Linz 1958, p. 55, 59 ( online (PDF; 4.2 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).

personal data
SURNAME	Castaldo, Giovanni Battista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian condottiere and general
DATE OF BIRTH	1493
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nocera de 'Pagani
DATE OF DEATH	January 6, 1563
Place of death	Milan

[1] From the Kingdom of Hungary to the Principality of Transylvania. In: mek.oszk.hu. Retrieved January 1, 2009 .

[2] Arnold Huttmann: A Flemish physician of the 16th century in Transylvania and Austria . In: Historical yearbook of the city of Linz 1958 . Linz 1958, p. 55, 59 ( online (PDF; 4.2 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).