Death
After the 1655 campaign, Thomas Francis returned to Turin where he died the following January; the suggestion in Spanheim that he died at the siege of Pavia is not supported - malaria, a common problem in the marshes of the Po valley, carried him off, as it carried off his successor as allied commander-in-chief, Francesco I d'Este.
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