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Encyclopedia Britannica



GUERNIERI, or WERNER

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 671 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GRA-GUI
GUERNIERI, or WERNER , a celebrated
mercenary
  captain who lived about the
middle
  of the 14th
century
 . He was a member of the family of the
dukes
  of Urslingen, and probably a descendant of the
dukes
  of
Spoleto
 . From 1340 to 1343 he was in the service of the citizens of Pisa, but afterwards he collected a troop of adventurers which he called the
Great
 
Company
 , and with which he plundered Tuscany and Lombardy. He then entered the service of Louis I. the
Great
 , king of
Hungary
  and Poland, whom he assisted to obtain possession of Naples; but when dismissed from this service his ravages became more terrible than ever, culminating in the dreadful sack of Anagni in 1358, shortly after which Guernieri disappeared from
history
 . He is said to have worn a breastplate with the inscription, " The enemy of God, of pity and of mercy."


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