FRUNDSBERG, GEORG VON German soldier, was born at Mindelheim on Sept. 29, 1473. He fought for the German king Maximilian I. against the Swiss in and in the same year was among the imperial troops sent to assist Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan, against the French. Still serving Maximilian, he took part in 1504 in the war over the succession to the duchy of Bavaria-Landshut, and afterwards fought in the Netherlands. Frundsberg assisted Maximilian to organize the Landsknechte (q.v.), and subsequently at the head of bands of these formidable troops he was of great service to the Empire and the Habsburgs. In 1509, 1513 and 1514 he gained fresh laurels by his enterprises against the Venetians and the French. When the struggle between France and the Empire was renewed he took part in the invasion of Picardy, and then proceeding to Italy brought the greater part of Lombardy under the influence of Charles V. through his victory at Bicocca in April 1522. He was partly responsible for the great victory over the French at Pavia in February 1525, and, returning to Germany, assisted in sup pressing the Peasants' Revolt, using on this occasion, however, diplomacy as well as force. He died at Mindelheim on Aug. 20, 1528. Frundsberg was a capable and chivalrous soldier, and a devoted servant of the Habsburgs. With his grandson the family became extinct.
See Adam Reissner, Historia Herrn Georgs and Herrn Kaspars von Frundsberg (Frankfort, 1568). A German translation of this work was published at Frankfort in 1572. F. W. Barthold, Georg von Frunds berg (Hamburg, 1833) ; J. Heilmann, Kriegsgeschichte von Bayern, Franken, Pfalz and Schwaben (Munich, 1868) .