"Spanish army 1500's" Topic

Hello,

Is their a source over the Spanish army of the 1500's that covers arms, armour, uniforms, organization?

Thanks for your help,
-Jim

If you can locate a copy of george Gush's, "Renaissance Armies" that would cover your needs. There was also an entire year of "The Courier" devoted to Ren. Armies; back in the 1980's. Magweb may have the issues.

Hello,

Thanks for all the suggestions so far. "Los Tercios Espanoles El ejército de Carlos V" seems to be rare; or I'm just not looking in the right places. Almena Publications look pretty good. "La Batalla De San Quintin 1557" caught my eye. Does it cover the French and Spanish or just the Spanish?

Thanks,
-Jim

This is a great book for European Armies as is the George Gush book already mentioned

"Armies of the Sixteenth Century The Armies of England, Scotland, the United Provinces, and the Spanish Netherlands: 1487-1609"

The Osprey Armada book is a nice little "toilet read" though mainly on the English forces.

what conflict(s) are you building your forces for?

Little enough, but free:

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Sounds daft but if you are into the 1500's, I'd look at paintings of the period – the Spanish fought in most places that had a major art tradition and the artists of the day used contemporary soldiers as Roman as well as in "up-to-date" scenes.
Obviously be careful as oil paints and the clothing dyes of the period do not exactly match.

There are also some online sources:

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(If you read Spanish)

-and-

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(In English)

The latter site has some great links and a bibliography that may be useful to you.

Geoffrey Parker's book Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, as much a social history as anything else, is good on the army in the Netherlands from 1560's through 1659. Cambridge Press.

Lentulus' reference is in fact the Spanish chapter from Gush.

Hello,

Thanks for all the replys. Here is something that some may find of intrest I found:
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But at points I dont really know what I'm looking at. My intrest is the Spanish side of the Italian Wars of the XVI century.

-Jim

NYPL Digital library is a great resource, isn't it?

I notice that the range of Osprey-like "Guerreros y Batallas" books in Spanish has now greatly expanded and includes a large selection of Renaissance titles.

Among the battles covered are : Nordlingen 1634, Lepanto 1571,Almansa 1707, the "Dogs of the Queen" – English sea dogs in the 1500's, San Quintin 1557 (loyal Catholic English troops of Queen Mary fighting side-by-side with their Spanish allies against the French), Cerinola 1503, Rocroi 1643, Garellano 1503, Breda 1625 and the War of the Spanish Succession. There are also more general books on the tercios in the Italian Wars and in North Africa.

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Much of the material covered deals with topics practically unknown in English sources. I had to read up on St Quintin in Spanish Wikipedia, as English Wikipedia doesn't even have an entry for the battle.