It doesn't really state how many Pizarros men he had, but he did have 102 infantrymen, 67 cavalrymen, four small artillery pieces with their attendance crews, and of course only 12 foot soldiers who carried firearms. The remaining soldiers only carried swords and crossbows.
The war began when the Catholic League convinced King Henry III to issue an edict outlawing Protestantism and annulling Henry of Navarre's right to the throne. For the first part of the war, the royalists and the Catholic League were uneasy allies against their common enemy, the Huguenots.
The court of claims were established in 1855.
Feudalism spread from France to Spain, Italy and Germany. The feudal system was originally a by-product from the Roman Empire. As the Roman Empire crumbled and the Viking raids increased, large landowners offered land and protection to their tenants in exchange for taxes and labor. By the 11th century, most parts of Germany were dominated by aristocrats. They considered it beneath themselves to farm the land so they offered the land to tenants in exchange for food and labor. They then bore arms and dispensed justice everywhere, even on their own lands.
