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List of military commanders
See also: Military History
Antiquity
Middle Ages
- Theodoric the Great (King of Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy)
- Songtsen Gampo (Tibetan warrior king)
- Charles Martel (Mayor of the Palace of the Kingdom of the Franks)
- Charlemagne (King of the Franks, and Holy Roman Emperor)
- King William I of England (Duke of Normandy, also known as William the Conqueror)
- General Belisarius (Byzantine general during the reign of Justinian I)
- Narses (Another great general in service of Justinian I)
- Mundus (another general under Justinian)
- Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl Toltec leader and conqueror
- Basil II Byzantine emperor
- George Maniaces (11th century Byzantine general)
- Nicephorus Botaniates (11th century Byzantine general, later emperor)
- Nicephorus Bryennius (11th century Byzantine general)
- Taticius (11th century Byzantine general)
- Robert Guiscard (Norman conqueror of Naples and S. Sicily)
- Godfrey of Bouillon (leader of the First Crusade)
- Baldwin of Boulogne (leader of the First Crusade)
- Baldwin of Bourcq (leader of the First Crusade)
- Bohemond of Taranto (leader of the First Crusade)
- Tancred (leader of the First Crusade)
- Raymond IV of Toulouse (leader of the First Crusade)
- Stephen, Count of Blois (leader of the First Crusade)
- Hughes de Payens (founder of the Knights Templar)
- Frederick Barbarossa (Holy Roman Emperor and Crusader)
- Raymond III of Tripoli (Crusader general)
- Raynald of Chatillon (Crusader general)
- Gerard de Ridefort (Grand Master of the Knights Templar)
- Roger de Moulins (Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller)
- Richard I of England (King of England, often referred as Richard the Lionhearted, known for his participation in the Third Crusade)
- al-Afdal Shahanshah (Fatimid vizier]])
- Saladin (Leader of the Muslims, known for his recapture of Jerusalem from the crusaders' hand)
- Boniface of Montferrat (leader of the Fourth Crusade)
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (leader of the Fifth Crusade and Sixth Crusade)
- Hermann of Salza (Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights)
- Genghis Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols)
- Ögedei Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols)
- Batu Khan (Mongolian conqueror)
- Kublai Khan (Great Khan of the Mongols, conqueror of China
- Alexander Nevsky (Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Vladimir, saint and national hero of Russia)
- Wolter von Plettenberg (Master of the Livonian Order)
- Edward I of England (known as the Hammer of the Scots]])
- William Wallace (Scottish Knight and freedom fighter)
- Robert the Bruce (Scottish King and freedom fighter)
- Khair ad Din (Also known as Barbarossa, an Admiral in the Ottoman Empire)
- Louis IX of France (leader of the Seventh Crusade and Eighth Crusade)
- Edward III of England (English King in the Hundred Years War)
- Edward the Black Prince, heir to the throne of England
- Roger de Flor (leader of the Catalan Company)
- Mehmed II the Conqueror (Ottoman Sultan, conquered Constantinople in 1453)
- Mehmed Pasa Sokollu (Bosnian military leader, Ottoman Grand Vizier during the reign of Suleiman and Selim II)
- Joan of Arc (National heroine of France and saint of Catholic Church)
- El Cid (Spanish knight and hero)
- Tamerlane (Timur Lenk, Mongolian conqueror)
- King Henry V of England, a seasoned warrior at the age of sixteen
- Jan Zizka (Commander of Taborite Army in Bohemia's Hussite Wars)
- Suleiman the Magnificent (Sultan of the Ottoman Empire)
Early Modern Era
Napoleonic Wars until World War 2
World War 2 - 1990
After 1990
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