Within a short time, however, the papal troops had the better of the situation, and managed to take the building.

He became captain of the papal troops from 1485.

In 1867, the bridge once and for all lost its historical character, when papal troops blew up the central arch.

He was a militia captain in the Papal troops and only painted "for own enjoyment".

In 1551 he successfully defended Mirandola against the papal troops.

Papal troops replaced the French though the forts were supposed to be destroyed.

At first the papal troops were defeated and things looked bleak for the house of Borgia.

But the victory was short lived and thereafter papal troops suffered a series of decisive losses.

King Ladislaus attacked his lands from the south while papal troops came from the north.

Over the 450 years since its founding, the Society has both been called the papal "elite troops" and been forced into suppression.