Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto

Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, (* 1460 Guards at the Roncal valley in Navarra; † August 28, 1528 in Castel Nuovo in Naples) was a Spanish military commander and engineer.

Life

Navarro began as a wage mercenaries fought in Italy and North Africa and joined the expedition of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba y Aguilar to Italy. Here he put his skills to the test by having to tear down the fortress walls with explosives. 1503 he blew the French garrison of Naples in the air. At this time he had already made a name as a command officer, and from 1509 to 1510 he fought in Oran and Tripoli. 1512 he fell at the battle of Ravenna for three years in captivity and came to his imprisonment in the service of the new French king Francis I. in 1525 he was arrested by his own countrymen at Pavia, and he did not come until 1526, after the conclusion of the Treaty of Madrid, again. In the service of the French army Navarro was responsible for the artillery. Navarro died 1528 as a prisoner of Emperor Charles V at the Castel Nuovo in Naples.