Talk:Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba

Honorific
I changed the article in accordance with the MOS (← This is the specific link! Just click on it and you will go to the section discussing honorific prefixes! --DelftUser), please discuss first before changing (again). --DelftUser 19:08, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

The greatest explorer of military tactics
Gonzalo de cordoba is really one of the unsung great military geniuses. he is never mention with the likes of Hannibal and Alexander Great

First Standing Army??
"De Cordoba founded the first modern standing army and the near invincible Spanish infantry that dominated battlefields of Europe during 16th and first decades of 17th centuries."

Where does that come from? The French entered the Italian Wars with a standing army as well. Thats a question of definition. Also anyone who reads about the Italian Wars should come to realize that the battles were not won due to the superiority of a particular type of unit but by correct employment and coordination. Therefore that sentence should either be removed or corrected please. --Longbow 19:38, 7 April 2007

Well, the point is that he started a revolution wich changed the way war was done. If you read it well it's the first modern standing army, not the first standing army. As you marked, it was organized in a different way than other armies and that's why it was so effective and also why it's considered as the first modern army. The result was that the mounted troops lost the relevance they had earned the centuries before, as they were supposed to be the strongest unit an army could have. Royendershade (talk) 17:02, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

So many problems
Just as an example, the section on the Italian Wars starts off with him returning to Italy in 1501, mentions his developments (without naming when they took place), says the French were routed from Italy by 1498, and finishes by talking about a naval action in 1500. My head hurts with all the inconsistencies and contradictions, and unfortunately, I've no knowledge of the subject. Someone please help? I've only flagged it for citations because I didn't know what other flag(s) to use.

75.199.233.167 (talk) 22:21, 20 October 2010 (UTC)History student

Another example: The following paragraph is not referenced. "He was first attached to the household of Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, the half-brother of King Henry IV of Castile. After Alfonso's death in 1468 Córdoba devoted himself to Alfonso's sister, Isabella of Castile." Alfonsec (talk) 12:09, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Confusing wording
Can someone clear this up? It was in the first paragraph , Duke of Terranova and Santangelo, Andria, Montalto and Sess Robert (talk) 13:39, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Statue
Funny thing, he has a statue in Cordova. It is made of metal, except the head, which is made of white marble. Why dat? https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-the-monument-to-the-great-captain-is-a-work-dedicated-to-gonzalo-fernandez-104317730.html 2A00:23C7:E284:CF00:2509:F1AB:E0C7:5595 (talk) 10:59, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Commanded Spanish troops

 * "The Catholic Monarchs' confidence in Fernandez de Cordoba led to their continued patronage. In 1495 Isabel sent him on an expedition against the French....", --Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia, E. Michael Gerli, p324.


 * "Consequently, war against France was proclaimed throughout Spain. Fernando and Isabel dispatched to Italy an expeditionary force of veterans of the Granada wars commanded by Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba..." --''Isabel the Queen: Life and Times, Peggy K. Liss, page 365.


 * "In 1495 Ferdinand dispatched an army to Italy under the command of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba..." --Altera Roma: Art and Empire from Merida to Mexico, Claire L. Lyons, John M.D. Pohl, page 148


 * "...second army to Naples under the command of Gonzalo de Cordoba, who attacked and drove the French out of southern Italy." -- Monarch of the Renaissance: The Live and Reigns of 42 European Kings and Queens, Philip J. Potter, page 264.


 * "CORDOBA, GONZALO FERNANDEZ, DUKE (1453- 1515), “el Gran Capitan,” was the most successful general of the Italian wars between France and Spain. He led the first Spanish expedition into southern Italy in response to the Fench invasion of 1495 and suffered his only battlefield defeat at Seminara that June." --International Encyclopedia of Military History, James C. Bradford, page 335.

Ancient Historian Enthusiast, I have sources stating Gonzalez was in command. Continue edit warring at your own risk. --Kansas Bear (talk) 23:55, 19 March 2023 (UTC)