by Luigi Casali
Imperial Army
Commanders: Charles de Lannoy viceroy of Naples, Charles III duke of Bourbon, former constable of France, Ferdinando Francesco d’Avalos marquis of Pescara
800
Heavy Knights<br>
1500
Light Knights<br>
12000
German Landsknechts<br>
6000
Spanish infantry<br>
3000
Italian infantrymen
17
Guns
Garrison of Pavia
400
Spanish Knights<br>
600
Spanish infantry<br>
5000
German Landsknechts<br>
French Army
Commanders: Francis I of Valois – Angouléme, king of France, Guillaume Gouffier lord of Bonnivet, admiral of France, Jacques de Chabannes lord of La Palice
1200
Heavy cavalry (gendarmes) with their retinue<br>
2000
Light Knights<br>
8000
Swiss Infantry<br>
4000
Landsknechts of the Black Band<br>
4000
Italian infantrymen
5000
French infantrymen
53
Guns
Total losses
Imperial
500
Knights and infantrymen
French
8000
among which illustrious knights such as Jacques Gouffier, Lord of Bonnivet, Admiral of France, Jacques Chabannes, Lord of La Palice, Louis de La Trémoille, Galeazzo Sanseverino, Grand Squire of France, Francis of Lorraine, Richard de La Pole, Duke of Suffolk and many others. Thousands of prisoners including Francis I, Henry d’Albret, King of Navarre, Francis II of Bourbon-Vendôme, Count of Saint-Pol, Robert de la Marck, Lord of Florange and numerous other knights.<br>
