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LANDSKNECHT , a German mercenary foot-soldier of the 16th century . The name (German for " man of the plains ") was given to mark the contrast between the force of thesesoldiers, formed by the emperor Maximilian
century , and the Swiss, the " men of the mountains," at that time the typical mercenary infantry of Europe. After the battles of Marignan and Pavia, where the military reputation of the Swiss had been broken, the Swabian landsknechte came to be considered the best fighting troops in Europe. Though primarily a German force and always the mainstay of imperial armies, they served in organized bodies as mercenaries elsewhere in Europe; in France they fought for the League and for the Protestants indiscriminately. In fact landsknecht, and more particularly its French corruption lansquenet, became in western Europe a general term
long pike or lance), the typical weapon with which they were armed, that the corrupted French form, as well as a German form, lanzknecht, and an English
The landsknechts were raised by colonels (Oberst), to whom the emperor issued recruiting commissions corresponding to the English
officers
economy
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