Catalan Company
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The Catalan Company or the Great Catalan Company was a company of mercenaries led by Roger de Flor in the early 14th century and hired by Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos to combat the incr
Manuscript of the Crònica of Ramon Muntaner
Peter III the Great with his almogavars in the Battle of the Col de Panissars. Bartomeu Ribó Térriz (1866)
Roger de Flor is received by the Byzantine emperor. Entrance of Roger de Flor in Constantinople (1888). Work of José Moreno Carbonero (Palace of the Senate, Madrid).
Seal of the Grand Catalan Company, c. 1305
Roger de Flor
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Roger de Flor, also known as Ruggero/Ruggiero da Fiore or Rutger von Blum or Ruggero Flores, was an Italian military adventurer and condottiere active in Aragonese Sicily, Italy, and the Byzantine Emp
Catalan Company
…Gran Companyia Catalana; Societas exercitus catalanorum, Societas cathalanorum, or Magna Societas Catalanorum) was a company of mercenaries led by Roger de Flor in the early 14th century and hired by Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos to combat the increasing power of the Anatolian beyliks. It was…
19th century engraving