Great Company
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The Great Company may refer to one of several armies of mercenaries in the late medieval period:
- The free companies that ravaged France and Italy
- Catalan CompanyCatalan CompanyThe Catalan Company of the East , officially the Magnas Societas Catalanorum, sometimes called the Grand Company and widely known as the Catalan Company, was a free company of mercenaries founded by Roger de Flor in the early 14th-century...
, sometimes called the Catalan Great Company - Great Company (German), operative in Italy in the 1350s
- Great Company (English), first operative in eastern France and Provence in the 1350s, then in Italy, where it became the White CompanyWhite CompanyThe White Company was a 14th Century Italian mercenary Company of Adventure , led from its arrival in Italy in 1361 to 1365 by the German Albert Sterz and later by the Englishman John Hawkwood...