condottiere

Meeting with the band of Oldrado Sampuynano, the Condottiere, she enlisted under his banner.

He's a species of condottiere; we can buy his allegiance with his service: and we must forego the sentimental objection.

But he was really little more than a condottiere, and his orthodoxy was suspect.

Seeing that the indignation of her mistress merely amused the condottiere the dwarf took a cajoling tone.

Henry of Navarre shall in reality be nothing but your condottiere, and I will not be exigeante.