Germany's Most Renowned Free Company

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This is the story of how a band of German mercenaries ran an Italy-wide protection racket, always selling their services to the highest bidders and eventually entering the pay of a Hungarian king to invade southern Italy. Founded and led by the infamous Werner of Urslingen, the self-proclaimed “enemy of god”, the German Great Company was one of the most sought-after, feared, and admired mercenary companies of renaissance Italy.

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