Battle of Motta (1412)

Battle of Motta
Part of Sigismund's Venetian war of 1411-1413
Date August 24, 1412[1] Location Motta di Livenza, Veneto Result Venetian victory[1][4][5][6]
Belligerents
Republic of Venice [1][2][3]	Reign of Sigismund [1][4][5]
Commanders and leaders
Carlo Malatesta Ruggero Cane Ranieri Taddeo dal Verme Pietro Loredan [6][7][8][9]	Pippo Spano Miklós Marczali † Niccolò di Prata (POW) [7][8][9][10]
Strength
12,000 Troops[11] Assembled on the Livenza by late August	3,000 cavalry[8] Hungarians, Bohemians, Germans and Friulians [2]
Casualties and losses
Heavy[7] Carlo Malatesta was severely wounded[4][2]	1,300 killed[5][3][9] 400 captured[7][8] several standards[12]

The Battle of Motta was fought in late August 1412 when an invading army of Hungarians, Germans and Croats led by Pippo Spano and Voivode Miklós Marczali^[13] attacked the Venetian positions at Motta in Italy^[11] and suffered a heavy defeat.

In 1409, during the 20-year Hungarian civil war between King Sigismund and the Neapolitan house of Anjou, the losing contender, Ladislaus of Naples, sold his "rights" on Dalmatia to the Venetian Republic for 100,000 ducats. As Sigismund emerged as the ruler of Hungary, he used this as a pretext to attack Venice.

The victory allowed Venice to affirm its rule in the Western Balkans (Venetian Dalmatia and Venetian Albania) against the plans of Sigismund, King of Germany, Hungary and Croatia.^[14]