Alonso Pita da Veiga

Alonso Pita da Veiga

Alonso Pita da Veiga, born in Ferrol in 15th century Galicia, Spain, was the most remarkable young officer of the Spanish Tercios fighting under the orders of Count Fernando de Andrade in the Battle of Pavia (Italy), between the years 1513-1525, becoming a lord with the right to wear a coat of arms and was granted land and property in Ferrolterra, his birthplace, for having surrendered, with his own sword, in the battlefield the king of France Francis I.

ee also

* Habsburg Spain First Habsburg of Spain i.e.: Charles I of Spain who was also Emperor Charles V

External links

* [http://ferrol.historia.tripod.com/ferrolnaval1525/ Alonso Pita da Veiga the most heroic Spaniard at the Battle of Pavia (Italy) 1525]
* [http://www.revistanaval.com/infanteriademarina/ Non-Official Web of the Modern "Spanish Marines" in existence since 1537 few years after Battle of Pavia (Italy) 1525 and well before the Battle of Lepanto (Greece) 1571]
* [http://www.terciodearmada.com/ Non-Official Web of the Modern "Spanish Tercios" inheritors of those who fought in the Battle of Pavia (Italy) 1525 and the Battle of Lepanto (Greece) 1571]


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