Battle of Seminara (1503)

Battle of Seminara
Part of the Second Italian War
Date 21 April 1503 Location Near Seminara and Gioia Tauro (present-day Italy) Result Spanish victory
Belligerents
France	Spain
Commanders and leaders
Bérault Stuart d'Aubigny	Fernando de Andrade
Strength
4,500 infantry 900 cavalry	4,000 infantry 800 cavalry

The Battle of Seminara of 1503 took place on 21 April 1503, near Seminara and Gioia Tauro, Calabria, between the French troops under the command of Bérault Stuart d'Aubigny and the Spanish troops commanded by Don Fernando de Andrade during the Second Italian War.

In November 1500 both Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon signed the Treaty of Granada, still under Frederick IV of Naples´s rule, in which they agreed to share the Kingdom of Naples, equally.

In 1501 the French army under Bérault Stuart d'Aubigny penetrated into Naples from the North, while the Spanish army commanded by Don Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba occupied the southern part. Frederick IV was overthrown and his kingdom divided between the two occupying forces, as stipulated in the treaty. There were soon signs of dissent growing between the Spanish and the French for the possession for the area that divided their territories and by June, 1502, armed conflict broke out between them.

The more numerous French forces were divided into two; the French Viceroy of Naples Louis d'Armagnac remained in Apulia surrounding Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba in Barletta while Stuart d'Aubigny pursued the Spanish forces under Hugo de Cardona and Manuel de Benavides in Calabria.

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