Wilson, Peter H., ed. The Thirty Years War: A Sourcebook, docs. 8, 32. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, OR “A Calvinist prince’s view: Christian II of Anhalt’s diary.” In Wilson, Peter H., ed. The Thirty Years War: A Sourcebook, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, “The Upper Austrian Peasants’ Rising, 1626.” In Wilson, Peter H., ed. The Thirty Years War: A Sourcebook, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

 Articles of the Bohemian Confederation  Ferdinand II’s plan for Habsburg lands  Treaty of Munich (1619)  Treaty of Ulm (1620)  Perspective “from the ground”

1. What were the key political and diplomatic developments of the 1620s? 2. How was warfare financed? 3. What were the main military conflicts in the 1620s? 4. Ferdinand II issued the Edict of Restitution in Why was this act a “grave error” (p. 446)? These questions represent an analysis of the assigned reading that is based entirely on Europe’s Tragedy but that does not always strictly follow the progress of Wilson’s presentation, especially with reference to questions 1 and 3.

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 “The revival of Catholicism in the Empire was received with mixed feelings by France and Spain” (p. 362).

 Spain  Philip IV ( )  Gaspar de Guzmán, Count- Duke of Olivares  reputación and war with the Dutch  enhancement of Spain’s navy  Admiralty of the North  Union of Arms (p. 370)  soldiers and tax  problems  financial crises (pp )  bankruptcy of 1627  capture of treasure fleets, 1627, 1628

 France  Louis XIII ( )  court factions  dévots vs. Bons Français  Cardinal Richelieu  chief minister ( )  “The interests of a state and the interests of religion are two entirely different things” (1616, p. 377).  “a dangerous opponent” (p. 379) for Spain (Olivares)  Habsburg encirclement

 France  Edict of Nantes (1598)  Huguenot rebellions, 1620s  distraction from international involvement  siege of La Rochelle ( , pp )  Peace of Alais (1629)

 Cardinal Richelieu’s four strategies 1. general alliance against Spanish dominance and for European peace 2. bilateral alliances: money and troops 3. protection for weaker territories in exchange for transit of French troops 4. limited warfare for the sake of protection  strategy “fundamentally flawed” (p. 381).

 Danish involvement  Christian IV ( )  interest in German bishoprics (p. 386)  rivalry with Sweden  Treaty of the Hague, 1625

 rise of Albrecht von Wallenstein ( )  defection to Emperor, 1619  “a major beneficiary of the land transfers” (p. 392)  Duke of Friedland, 1624  commander of Imperialist forces, 1625  Duke of Mecklenburg, 1629  upstart, critical of subordinates

 other commanders  Wallenstein  General Tilly  Maximilian I, Catholic League  recognition of his electoral title by Saxony (1624) and Brandenburg (1627)  Regensburg Electoral Congress, 1630  “a significant demonstration of the Empire’s collective purpose” (p. 454)  dismissal of Wallenstein

 state  taxation, e.g. war taxes (p. 456)  borrowing  military officers  plunder  credit: for raising an army  muster system: towns provide food and wages for an entire troop  contributions (“tax of violence” / extortion): to be paid also after a troop has left a region  challenges  pay arrears  camp followers

 surrender of Breda (siege: August 1624-June 1625) = “pyrrhic victory” (p. 434)  Dunkirk privateers: attack on Dutch ships  Treaty of Compiègne (1624): France and Dutch Republic  subsidies from France for Dutch naval support  Frederick Henry of Nassau

 Piet Hein: capture of Spanish treasure fleet (1628)  “Spain’s inability to send reinforcements to the Netherlands placed a premium on imperial assistance” (p. 436)  siege of s’Hertzogenbosch (Bois-le-duc), 1629

 Holy Slaughter in the Valtellina, July 1620  diplomatic solution: papal troops replaced Spanish troops  Savoy’s attack on Genoa, 1625  French conquest of the Valtellina  Treaty of Monzón, 1625: a Catholic Valtellina; replacement of French with papal troops  Savoy’s alliance with Spain

 War of the Mantuan Succession ( )  claim of Charles of Nevers upon Mantua: 1627  under Imperial jurisdiction (Ferdinand II)  control of Montferrato: Spain and Savoy  fortress of Casale: taken by Charles, 1628  Imperial intervention: “Madrid failed to see that its assertiveness in Italy forced the emperor to intervene to preserve his own authority, rather than because he wished to counter France” (p. 443).  fall of Mantua (1629)  solutions: Peace of Regensburg (1630), Peace of Cherasco (1631): Charles in Mantua; preservation of Imperial jurisdiction; tensions with Spain

 motives  ecclesiastical property, not “religious solidarity” (p. 387)  misgivings of Danish nobility  Treaty of the Hague (1625)  England, Dutch Republic: aid for Denmark  strategy  Danish attack in northern Germany  attack of Bethlen (d. 1629) from Transylvania

 Imperialist reaction  neutrality? Tilly to Hessen: “It’s called obedience, not neutrality. Your lord is an imperial prince whose overlord is the emperor” (p. 389).  imperial order (7 May 1624)  Battle of Dessau Bridge (1626)  Wallenstein vs. Mansfeld (d. 1626)  Battle of Lutter (1626)  Tilly vs. Christian IV  Interlude: Upper Austrian Rebellion (1626)  the problem of re-Catholicization

 Imperialist reaction  1627 campaign against Holstein  Peace of Lübeck (1629)  Denmark lost none of its own territory.  Denmark agreed 1. to abandon claims to bishoprics 2. keep out of Imperial affairs  “a gift from heaven” (p. 423)

 Background: Swedish southern advance ( )  “Austro-Spanish naval cooperation” (p. 426)  blockade of Magdeburg, siege of Stralsund  Stralsund (1628): Gustavus’ “German base” (p. 431)

 Imperial intervention in Poland  goal: dislodge Swedes from Vistula delta  limited success  Truce of Altmark (1629)  facilitated by France  Sweden abandoned Courland, most of Livonia, and all but three Prussian ports  Richelieu’s plan  redirect Sweden’s attention away from Poland and towards the Holy Roman Empire

 “…Ferdinand committed a grave error by issuing the Edict of Restitution in March 1629” (p. 446)  “a blunder of the first order” (p. 453)  a failed attempt to establish peace  connected to “the controversial land transfers, contributions and military demands that stirred well-founded suspicions in many Catholics as well as Protestants” (p. 446)

 a “glorious enterprise”  God on the Catholic side  militant Catholic interpretation of the Peace of Augsburg  Paul Laymann SJ, Pacis compositio (1629)  William Lamormaini SJ ( ): surpassed Ferdinand in “religious fundamentalism” (p. 447)

 a judicial, not a religious act  a return to the “clear letter” of the Peace of Augsburg?  Calvinism excluded  return of ecclesiastical property secularized after 1552  recovery of 6 bishoprics, 2 imperial abbeys, ca. 150 monasteries, convents, churches  “not a uniform attack on German Protestants” (p. 449)  main victims: Denmark, Guelphs, Württemberg

 Catholic dismay: Spain, Bishop of Vienna, Wallenstein; religious orders vs. bishops  Protestant response  alienation of moderate Lutherans  Johann Georg’s arguments  about Peace of Augsburg  in favour of suspending implementation

 Consequences  Catholic disunity  adamant Protestant opposition to “wholesale” restitution vs. case-by-case investigation  “the vitality of an Empire- wide political culture” (p. 453) that valued reasonable compromise  Regensburg Electoral Congress, 1630  opposition to Wallenstein  opposition to Mantuan War