Battle of Cortenuova

Battle of Cortenuova
	Part of the Wars of Guelphs and Ghibellines
	; 14th century miniature depicting the Battle of Cortenuova.
Date	27 November 1237
Location	Cortenuova, Lombardy
Result	Imperial victory
Belligerents
Holy Roman Empire; Kingdom of Sicily; Ghibellines	Lombard League
Commanders and leaders
Frederick II	Pietro Tiepolo (POW); Guglielmo I da Rizolio
Strength
10,000–15,000 2,000–3,000 Germans; (Holy Roman Empire); ; 7,000–10,000 Sicilians, including an unknown number of Saracen archers; (Kingdom of Sicily); ; 801 Ghibellines; (Verona and Lombardy);	8,000–20,000; (Comunes of Lombardy);
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Thousands killed ; 4,093 Captured

The Battle of Cortenuova (sometimes spelled Cortenova) was fought on 27 November 1237 in the course of the Guelphs and Ghibellines Wars: in it, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II defeated the Second Lombard League.

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