White Company

The White Company (Italian: Compagnia Bianca del Falco) was a 14th-century

English mercenary Company of Adventure (Italian: Compagnia di ventura), led from its arrival in
Italy in 1361 to 1363 by the German Albert Sterz and later by the Englishman John Hawkwood.
Although the White Company is the name by which it is popularly known, it was initially called the
Great Company of English and Germans[1] and would later often be referred to as the English
Company (It: Compagnia degli Inglesi, L: Societas Angliciis).