1503 in France

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Events from the year 1503in France .

Incumbents

• Monarch –Louis XII

Events

• February 13 – Challenge of Barletta: Thirteen Italian knights defeat thirteen French knights in a duel, near Barletta. ^[1]
• February 23 – French–Spanish Wars in Italy – Battle of Ruvo: The Spanish defeat the French. ^[2]
• April 21
  • Battle of Seminara: Spanish forces under Fernando de Andrade de las Mariñas defeat the French under Bernard Stewart, 4th Lord of Aubigny. ^[3]
  • Battle of Cerignola: Spanish forces under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba defeat the French under Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours. ^[4]
• August 18 – 7 French cardinals are called to Rome for a papal conclave, to start in September following the death of Pope Alexander VI.
• November 11 – Bernard Stewart, 4th Lord of Aubigny, commander of the defeated French forces and a prisoner of war since his April 21 defeat at the Battle of Seminara, is released from Castel Nuovo in Naples after a truce between France and Spain. ^[5]
• December 29 – The Battle of Garigliano takes place near Gaeta in Italy. Spanish forces under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba defeat a French–Italian mercenary army under Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo.

Births

• December 14 – Michel de Nostredame, called Nostradamus, French physician, astrologer and writer of Les Propheties (1555) (d. 1566) ^[6]

Date unknown

• Jean Suau, French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal (d. 1566) ^[7]
• Robert Estienne, French printer (d. 1559) ^[8]
• probable – Nicholas Bourbon, French poet ^[9]

Deaths

• April 28 – Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours, French nobleman, politician and military commander (b. 1472)
• July 24 – Louise of Savoy, member of French royal family and a Poor Clare nun (b. 1461)

Date unknown

• Jean Poyer, French painter (b. Unknown)

References

1. Historia del combattimento de' tredici Italiani con altrettanti Francesi, fatto in Puglia tra Andria e Quarati (in Italian). Naples: Gabriele Porcelli. 1844. p. 5. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
2. Prescott, William Hickling (1859). History of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co. pp. 56–57. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
3. Almirante, José (1923). Bosquejo de la historia militar de España: hasta fines del siglo XVIII (in Spanish). Vol. 1. Sucesores de Rivadeneyra. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
4. Hans Delbrück (1985). History of the art of war within the framework of political history. Greenwood Press. p. 73. ISBN   978-0-8371-6365-9.
5. Cust, Lady Elizabeth (1891). Some Account of the Stuarts of Aubigny, in France: 1422-1672. Chiswick Press. p. 37. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
6. Nostradamus (1999). Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus. Wordsworth Editions. p. 11. ISBN   978-1-84022-301-9.
7. "The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of December 20, 1555". cardinals.fiu.edu. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
8. Cross, F. L.; Livingstone, E. A. (1 January 2009). Cross, F. L.; Livingstone, E. A. (eds.). "'Stephanus'". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780192802903.001.0001. ISBN   978-0-19-280290-3 . Retrieved 21 June 2023.
9. Cornell Studies in Classical Philology. Cornell University Press. 1946. p. 84. Retrieved 21 June 2023.