الفرق المأجورة في جنوب فرنسا و سبل مواجهتها (1360-1370م)‎

Abstract EN

The state of European society in the fourteenth century AC became a fertile environment for the emergence of what is known The Mercenary Companies as a natural result of the ongoing struggle between the political forces there, as well as the local ones within the same country.

After the Treaty of Britney, It was exacerbated by the state of economic collapse that pushed many to work as wage earners in the war to obtain the highest material gains for the sake of living, in addition to the presence of the supreme religious authority in Avignon, and its distance from St.

Peter's Church in Rome, stripped from the hearts of the public and the private its prestige at a time when it lost its military support The Kingdom of France - who directed his efforts in his struggle with England.

The political situation of the Kingdom of France and the blows it receives from the Kingdom of England made it a fertile ground and a safe theater for the growth of those teams, just like Italy, where internal conflicts are prevalent, in addition to the good military training and the abundance and deployment of paid teams made it very difficult to confront them militarily.

He had both religious and worldly powers, so he began to think of other means to get rid of them, and the idea of exploiting them in the Crusades against Muslims appeared in the west in Granada and in the east of the Ottoman,