Details
Date: Saturday 26 April 2025, 13:30-14:30
Venue: Augustine House | AHg.27
War & Politics
Tickets: £10/person per event in person
Discount: for those buying 10 or more tickets in one transaction, then each ticket is £8/person per event in person. Student ticket (does not apply to the Archives, Hospital or Church), £2/person/per event with a max of 5% for any of the talks.
Professor Glenn Richardson
Glenn Richardson is Professor of Early Modern History at St Mary’s University Twickenham and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His research focuses on European kingship, and sixteenth-century international relations, warfare, royal courts and cultural patronage. His previous books include Wolsey (2020), The Field of Cloth of Gold (2013 and 2020) and his first was Renaissance Monarchy: The Reigns of Henry VIII, Francis I and Charles V (2002).
About the event
The Battle of Pavia is arguably the most important European military encounter of the sixteenth century. This talk will explain the reasons for Francis I's involvement in the Italian Wars and why he besieged Pavia in the autumn of 1524. It reviews the main phases of the battle on 24 February 1525, its immediate aftermath, and its long-lasting strategic and political importance.
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