Coat of Arms of the Infantry Regiment "Tercio Viejo de Sicilia" Nº 67, depicting the campaigns in which the tercio participated in as well as those of the units that succeeded it.Julián Romero, maestre de campo of the Tercio of Sicily, knight of the Order of Santiago.
The Tercio of Sicily (Spanish: Tercio Viejo de Sicilia) is one of the tercios that were created by a 1534 decree of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Since the 18th century, the Spanish army has maintained the tradition of this tercio in its regiments.
The purpose of this regiment was to protect the Spanish possessions in Italy from enemy attack.
The name includes "viejo" ("old") because it is one of the three first tercios created and originally comprised 12 companies (each consisting of 150-200 men). The tercio was stationed throughout Sicily as well as in Calabria, Marina de Catanzaro.
Its first mission was a successful expedition to occupy La Goulette, at the time under Ottoman control. Between 1542 and 1544, it was stationed in France and in Piedmont. Later, in 1550, it undertook several campaigns against the Ottomans and through 1571, when the Ottoman forces were routed in the Battle of Lepanto in which the tercio also participated.
Between 1571 and 1588 the Tercio of Sicily fought in Flanders against Prince William the Silent, in Tunis against the Ottomans, and in 1580 in the War of the Portuguese Succession. In 1588, the tercio lost a large number of men in the destruction of the Spanish Armada.
In the early part of the 17th century, the unit became known as the "Permanent Tercio of Sicily" Spanish: Tercio Fijo de Sicilia since it had been on that island for two centuries, even though it had participated in expedition against the Turks and in France. In the latter part of the century, the tercio found itself in France again and later was assigned the quelling of the rebellion of the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1699 and Messina in 1673.
The TercioofSicily (Spanish: Tercio Viejo de Sicilia) is one of the tercios that were created by a 1534 decree of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Since...
A tercio (pronounced [ˈteɾθjo]), Spanish for "[a] third") was a military unit of the Spanish Army during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain and...
months in the Civic Hospital at Messina, Sicily. Although he returned to service in July 1572 in the Tercio de Figueroa, records show his chest wounds...
chief of staff. He was chosen by the monarch in the Council of State, and commanded a tercio. Their powers were similar to those of the old marshals of the...
list of wars and armed conflicts fought by the Kingdom of Spain, its predecessor states or in Spanish territory. Military history of Spain List of Spanish...
Avellino, who entrusted him a tercio. On 5 September he was made a sergeant major of this tercio. He took part at the Siege of Ostend in Flanders. He is mentioned...
the walled town of Castelnuovo, present-day Herceg Novi, Montenegro. Castelnuovo had been conquered by elements of various Spanish tercios the year before...
King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598. He was also jure uxoris King of England...
(1801) Unknown Tercio flag (appears near commander Ambrogio Spinola in the painting "The Surrender of Breda" of Diego Velázquez) (1621) Tercio de Alburquerque...
P. (8 June 2014). "El regimiento más antiguo de Europa empezó siendo un tercio español y combatió contra Napoleón". ABC.es. Retrieved 2016-01-28. Tierra...
final third of pikemen): Tercio Nuevo de la Mar de Nápoles. Tercio de la Armada del Mar Océano. Tercio de Galeras de Sicilia. Tercio Viejo del Mar Océano...
conquer more of Europe, since Malta was a stepping stone to Sicily, and Sicily in turn could be a base for an invasion of the Kingdom of Naples. In August...
Palmas de Gran Canaria. The Tercio (fleet — regiment equivalent) is available for immediate embarkation and based out of San Fernando. Its principal weapons...
when they met the fleet of the Holy League which was sailing east from Messina, Sicily. The fleet of the Holy League consisted of 109 galleys and six galleasses...
numerous and prominent group of the right wing headed by Carlos Navarro Rodrigo (his followers were known as the "tercios navarros"), who aspired to replace...
the Armada de Barlovento and custodian of the Fleet of New Spain, governor of the Tercioof Álava, governor of five galleons from Naples, sailor and prominent...
flags of each company, each Tercio should have another one in yellow with the Cross of Burgundy in red. The units of Cavalry took the same flags but of smaller...
centralised states of the Americas, and colonising the Philippines. Her tercio units, backed by imperial gold and silver, were dominant in Europe. It was...
battlefield with its well trained infantry, the tercios. The financial burden within the peninsula was on the backs of the peasant class while the nobility enjoyed...
French/Swiss force led eventually to his introduction of the mixed pike and shot army (the tercios born). After this humiliating defeat, Fernández De Córdoba...
Regulares Infantry Regiment based in González Tablas barracks; 2nd Tercio Duke of Alba Regiment of the Spanish Legion based in the Seraglio-Recarga cantonment;...
native of Elío, Navarra, and served as the equerry and royal steward to Queen Mariana de Austria. He held the rank of maestre de campo in the Tercios de Navarra...
birthday, an Imperial army of pike and shot regiments, consisting primarily of 12,000 Germans (Landsknechts) and 5,000 Spaniards (Tercios), arrived in Lombardy...
Battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE) to defeat a force of Persian Immortals. Before the Battle of Agrigentum, in Sicily (262 BCE)—the first pitched battle of the...
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