Great Company of English and Germans

found: Caferro, William. John Hawkwood, 2015:page 46 (The official name of Hawkwood's band was the "Great Company of English and Germans") page 47 (It was in Italy that the Great Company came to be known more surely by its famous nickname, the White Company)

found: Wikipedia (English), December 2, 2015(The White Company (Italian: Compagnia Bianca del Falco) was a 14th-century Italian mercenary Company of Adventure (It.: compagnia di ventura), led from its arrival in Italy in 1361 to 1365 by the German Albert Sterz and later by the Englishman John Hawkwood. Although the White Company is the name by which it is popularly known, it was initially called the Great Company of English and Germans, and would later often be referred to as the English Company (It.: Compagnia degli Inglesi, L.: Societas Angliciis). Despite it being commonly referred to as the English Company, personnel were drawn from a wide range of nationalities, reflecting the international nature of Italian mercenary warfare in the 14th. century, including at various times Germans, Italians and Hungarians)

found: Wikipedia (English), December 2, 2015(A free company (sometimes called a great company) was a late medieval army of mercenaries acting independently of any government)