Events from the year 1503 in France.
Incumbents
Monarch –Louis XII
Events
February 13 – Challenge of Barletta: Thirteen Italian knights defeat thirteen French knights in a duel, near Barletta. February 23 – French–Spanish Wars in Italy – Battle of Ruvo: The Spanish defeat the French. April 21 Battle of Seminara: Spanish forces under Fernando de Andrade de las Mariñas defeat the French under Bernard Stewart, 4th Lord of Aubigny. Battle of Cerignola: Spanish forces under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba defeat the French under Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours. August 18 – 7 French cardinals are called to Rome for a papal conclave, to start in September following the death of Pope Alexander VI. November 11 – Bernard Stewart, 4th Lord of Aubigny, commander of the defeated French forces and a prisoner of war since his April 21 defeat at the Battle of Seminara, is released from Castel Nuovo in Naples after a truce between France and Spain. December 29 – The Battle of Garigliano takes place near Gaeta in Italy. Spanish forces under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba defeat a French–Italian mercenary army under Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo.
Births December 14 – Michel de Nostredame, called Nostradamus, French physician, astrologer and writer of Les Propheties (1555) (d. 1566)
Date unknown Jean Suau, French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal (d. 1566) Robert Estienne, French printer (d. 1559) probable – Nicholas Bourbon, French poet
Deaths April 28 – Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours, French nobleman, politician and military commander (b. 1472) July 24 – Louise of Savoy, member of French royal family and a Poor Clare nun (b. 1461)
Date unknown
Jean Poyer, French painter (b. Unknown)
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