1527 CE

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Zwitserse Garde houdt stand tijdens de plundering van Rome

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The Sack of Rome, then part of the Papal States, followed the capture of Rome on 6 May 1527 by the mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, during the War of the League of Cognac. Charles V only intended to threaten military action to make Pope Clement VII come to his terms. However, the Imperial army (14,000 Germans, including Lutherans, 6,000 Spaniards and some Italians) were largely unpaid and mutinied.

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Sack of Rome of 1527 by Johannes Lingelbach 17th centuryJohannes LingelbachPublic domainWikimedia Commons
The sack of Rome, 1527Wellcome CollectionCC BY 4.0Europeana
The rebuilding of Rome after the sack by the GaulsKB, National Library of the NetherlandsPublic domainEuropeana
A massacre in a church during the Sack of Rome: a priest is about to be stabbed and another priest is lying dead on the floor before the altar. Wood engraving by R. Venturi after himself.Wellcome CollectionCC BY 4.0Europeana

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