From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

Lansquenet \Lans"que*net\, n. [F., fr G. landsknecht a foot
soldier, also a game of cards introduced by these foot
soldiers; land country + knecht boy, servant. See {Land}, and
{Knight}.]
1. A German foot soldier in foreign service in the 15th and
16th centuries; a soldier of fortune; -- a term used in
France and Western Europe.