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| rdfs:comment | - The free companies, or companies of adventure, have been cited as a factor as strong as or famine in the reduction of Siena from a glorious rival of Florence to a second-rate power during the later fourteenth century; Siena spent 291,379 florins between 1342 and 1399 buying off the free companies. The White Company of John Hawkwood, probably the most famous free company, active in Italy in the latter half of the fourteenth century, was the worst offender among those that preyed upon Sienese factions.
- A Free Company refers to army of condottieri officially acting independently of any government, for whomsoever will pay and thus that adjective "free". They regularly made a living by plunder when they were not employed by some monarch. This type of mercenary group is most popular in Redania. In The Tower of the Swallow, king Esterad Thyssen of Kovir and Poviss released some political prisoners formerly known as the "Sly cats" on the condition that they support the efforts to push back the Nilfgaardian invasion at the battles of Mayena and Brenna.
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| abstract | - The free companies, or companies of adventure, have been cited as a factor as strong as or famine in the reduction of Siena from a glorious rival of Florence to a second-rate power during the later fourteenth century; Siena spent 291,379 florins between 1342 and 1399 buying off the free companies. The White Company of John Hawkwood, probably the most famous free company, active in Italy in the latter half of the fourteenth century, was the worst offender among those that preyed upon Sienese factions.
- A Free Company refers to army of condottieri officially acting independently of any government, for whomsoever will pay and thus that adjective "free". They regularly made a living by plunder when they were not employed by some monarch. This type of mercenary group is most popular in Redania. In The Tower of the Swallow, king Esterad Thyssen of Kovir and Poviss released some political prisoners formerly known as the "Sly cats" on the condition that they support the efforts to push back the Nilfgaardian invasion at the battles of Mayena and Brenna.
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