Best Medieval European Commander?

Best Medieval European Commander?

  • Robert Guiscard

    Votes: 2 6.7%
  • Bohemond of Antioch

    Votes: 1 3.3%
  • Heraclius

    Votes: 1 3.3%
  • Sigurd Magnusson

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Skanderbeg

    Votes: 4 13.3%
  • Joan of Arc

    Votes: 2 6.7%
  • Philip Augustus

    Votes: 1 3.3%
  • Richard the Lionheart

    Votes: 2 6.7%
  • Belisarius

    Votes: 12 40.0%
  • Raymond VII of Toulouse

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 2 6.7%
  • Other

    Votes: 1 3.3%
  • Baldwin III

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Frederick Barbarossa

    Votes: 1 3.3%
  • El Cid

    Votes: 1 3.3%

  • Total voters
    30
  • Poll closed .
Not in my opinion.His army was much better than the Saxons,and I suspect that a major reason he won was due to luck as opposed to his skill as a commander.He's just above average in my opinion.

Well, Hastings was his most famous victory, but he had shown his military skills previously, specially in Val-ès-Dunes, where he beate his cousins that contested his rights to the Duchy of Normandy, and had a superior army, and in his campaings against the bretons.

Anyway, though he is in the limits of the period, this guy invented the most effective military unit in the european battlefields during almost two centuries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo_Fernández_de_Córdoba
 
Well, Hastings was his most famous victory, but he had shown his military skills previously, specially in Val-ès-Dunes, where he beate his cousins that contested his rights to the Duchy of Normandy, and had a superior army, and in his campaings against the bretons.

Anyway, though he is in the limits of the period, this guy invented the most effective military unitin the european battlefields during two centuries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo_Fernández_de_Córdoba#First_Italian_War

Thats renaissance, beguining of the renaissance but definitely renaissance
 
Thinking about this further I do think Zizka, Barbarossa and Charles of Anjou should also be in the top tier. Zizka is a genius, Frederick Barbarossa was very impressive during his later career and Charles won two decisive battles which I think is a rare feat in the middle ages.
 
El Cid definitely deserves some mention doesn't he? Being the penultimate example of the Spanish Callabero, a warrior and leader that succeeded literally everywhere he went. Whether that be serving as the head of the military of Sancho II of Castile, or halting the reconquista by several years by defending the Taifa of Zaragoza against Aragon, to the point his resumé forced his enemy Alfonso of Castile to reinstate his position, not to mention also giving the Almoravids their first defeat in the Iberian peninsula.
 

Thothian

Banned
Dmn, the cutoff is too early for Vlad Tepes.

" Oh, how they would tremble to know that they faced the Impaler." --- from Dracula Untold ( i know its ASB, I just love that line, and I have always marveled at Vlad's tenacity as well as his popularity among his subjects)

I'm going to have to say Belisarius, then. Runner up would be Charles Martel, imo.
 
Dmn, the cutoff is too early for Vlad Tepes.

" Oh, how they would tremble to know that they faced the Impaler." --- from Dracula Untold ( i know its ASB, I just love that line, and I have always marveled at Vlad's tenacity as well as his popularity among his subjects)

I'm going to have to say Belisarius, then. Runner up would be Charles Martel, imo.
I think the OP stated that anywhere from 500 until 1500 AD would be fine. Vlad would still be in before the cutoff.
 

Thothian

Banned
Ahh dmn, you're right Behemoth. I was looking at the date the Ambras Castle portrait of him was painted, while i was thinking of my reply. Brain wires got crossed.
 
Hands down duke John (I) of Brabant. ;) He won the battle of Worringen (Woeringen) and decided the Limburg war of succession, in Brabant's favour.
 
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