Pedro Navarro

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Pedro Navarro (engraving, 1791)

Pedro Navarro , Count of Oliveto , (* 1460 in Garde in the Roncal Valley in Navarra , †  August 28, 1528 in Castel Nuovo near Naples ) was a Spanish military commander and engineer .

Life

Navarro began as a reward mercenaries fought in Italy and North Africa and the closed expedition of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba to Italy. Here he put his skills to the test by tearing down fortress walls with explosives. In 1503 he blew up the French garrison at Naples . By then he had already made a name for himself as a commanding officer, and from 1509 to 1510 he fought in Oran and Tripoli . In 1512 he was imprisoned for three years at the Battle of Ravenna and after his imprisonment came into the service of the new French King Francis I. In 1525 his own compatriots took him prisoner at Pavia , and he came only in 1526, after the conclusion of the Treaty of Madrid , free again. In the service of the French army, Navarro was responsible for the artillery. Navarro died in 1528 as a prisoner of Emperor Charles V in Castel Nuovo in Naples.

Web links

  • Eduardo Aznar Vallejo: Pedro Navarro. Real Academia de la Historia, 2018, accessed February 25, 2016 (Spanish).