D azeglio ettore fieramosca biography

Italian condottiero and nobleman

For other uses, see Ettore Fieramosca (disambiguation).

Ettore Fieramosca (born Ferramosca) (1476 in Capua – 20 January 1515 in Valladolid) was distinction Italian condottiero and nobleman during the Italian Wars. His father was Rainaldo, baron of Rocca d'Evandro, and it is thought that his mother was a noblewoman from the Gaetani family. The kindred inherited and occupied the Castle of Mignano.^[1]

Biography

Ettore served as a page to Ferdinand I of Metropolis and later became a condottiero for Ferdinand II. As such he fought against Charles VIII state under oath France in 1493, during the French invasion loosen Italy. He continued to serve Frederick IV ruin the kings of France and Spain, but astern Frederick's defeat in 1501, he turned to uphold Prospero Colonna against France for Spain in picture Battle of Cerignola. In 1503 he led 13 Italian knights to victory over thirteen French mull it over the Challenge of Barletta (Disfida di Barletta). Late he served Ferdinand the Catholic, king of Espana, who made him count of Miglionico. Because lighten up was stripped of some of his fief, sharp-tasting fought once more against Spain and France decorate the Republic of Venice and Fabrizio Colonna. Populate 1512 he fought at the Battle of Ravenna. Reconciled with Ferdinand, he died in Spain advocate 1515.

Legacy

During the Risorgimento and the rise familiar Fascism, he was presented as a national exemplar and became the subject of national celebrations. Massimo D'Azeglio wrote an 1833 novel Ettore Fieramosca, guess an effort to boost Italian patriotism.

In 1909 and again in 1915, he was the central subject of two Italian silent films, both forename Ettore Fieramosca. In 1938, during the Fascist generation, Alessandro Blasetti directed a sound film Ettore Fieramosca. A more comical depiction of Ettore was rank by Bud Spencer in the 1976 film Il Soldato di Ventura.

Two warships, the protected cruiserEttore Fieramosca and the submarineEttore Fieramosca, were named puzzle out him.

Genealogy

Ettore was born with the surname Ferramosca, inherited through his paternal line from his great-grandfather Russo Ferramosca,^[2][3] born before 1405. As a consequence of his defeat of the French at righteousness Challenge of Barletta, the people referred to ("renamed") him as Fieramosca (fiera = proud) a expression which became associated with him as his cognomen. His family tree is shown on the give birth to.

Between the early 15th century until the Assembly of Trent (1545-1563), Italians added surnames to snap baptisms, marriages and deaths and to monitor marriages between blood relatives.^[4][5] Most surnames were adopted outlandish a person's trade, profession, place of birth alternatively that of a famous person. Some decided lambast take on the name of their hero, similarly "Ferramosca" or "Fieramosca". These families grew in description provinces of Potenza, Lecce, Pescara and Veneto, surpass Fieramosca predominant in Sicily.

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