Battle of Campaldino

Battle of Campaldino
Part of the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines

Fresco in San Gimignano from 1292
Date11 June 1289
Location
Result Decisive Guelph victory
Belligerents

Guelphs

Ghibellines

  • Arezzo
  • Florentine exiles[3]
  • Ghibellines from Tuscany and Romagna
Commanders and leaders
Amerigo di Narbona
Guillaume da Durfort 
Corso Donati
Vieri de' Cerchi
Barone de Mangiadori
Guglielmo Ubertini 
Bonconte I da Montefeltro [4]
Guido Novello Guidi[4]
Strength

c. 12,000[5]

  • 10,000 infantry[6]
  • 2,000 cavalry
10,000 infantry
800 cavalry
Casualties and losses
300 killed,[7] many wounded[8] 1,700 killed, many wounded, 2,000 captured[8]

The Battle of Campaldino was fought between the Guelphs and Ghibellines on 11 June 1289.[9] Mixed bands of pro-papal Guelf forces of Florence and allies, Pistoia, Lucca, Siena, and Prato, all loosely commanded by the paid condottiero Amerigo di Narbona with his own professional following, met a Ghibelline force from Arezzo including the perhaps reluctant bishop, Guglielmino degli Ubertini, in the plain of Campaldino, which leads from Pratovecchio to Poppi, part of the Tuscan countryside along the upper Arno called the Casentino. One of the combatants on the Guelph side was Dante Alighieri, twenty-four years old at the time.

  1. ^ a b DeVries & Capponi (2018), p. 54.
  2. ^ DeVries & Capponi (2018), pp. 26, 27, 54.
  3. ^ DeVries & Capponi (2018), pp. 52, 53.
  4. ^ a b DeVries & Capponi (2018), p. 20.
  5. ^ DeVries & Capponi (2018), p. 21.
  6. ^ DeVries & Capponi (2018), p. 28.
  7. ^ Bicchierai, Marco. "Giugno 1269, 1289 e 1440: vittorie di primavera", Università di Firenze, p.2. Retrieved on 28 October 2005.
  8. ^ a b DeVries & Capponi (2018), p. 86.
  9. ^ Herbert L. Oerter, "Campaldino, 1289," Speculum, 43:3 (1968), 429–50, provides a complete account, with maps.


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