Peace of Vervins

The Peace of Vervins ( 2. May 1598 ) ended the of Spain since 1590 against France led war . The regulations of the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis of 1559 were largely confirmed; the Spanish King Philip II waived all claims against France for his empire.

Philip II had the French throne after the murder of the childless and last Valois king Heinrich III. Claimed for his family in 1589 because Philip was married to his sister Elisabeth von Valois and France has since been ruled by what he saw as the illegitimate Protestant Henry IV . However, Heinrich converted to the Catholic faith in 1593 and thus dropped the reason for war.

The peace treaty of 1598 was sustained by financial and military exhaustion on both sides. Philip II died that same year; the contents of the treaty revealed the gradual loss of the previous Spanish hegemony on the continent. In addition to the Edict of Nantes issued in the same year, the peace also marked the consolidation of the previously uncertain rule of Henry IV in France.

literature

Arthur E. Imhof : The Peace of Vervins 1598. Keller, Aarau 1966, also dissertation, University of Zurich, 1965.
Michael Wayne Lodwick: The Enforcement of the Peace of Vervins. French and English Relations with the Spanish World Empire 1598-1604. University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor 1977, also PhD thesis, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1976.
Claudine Vidal, Frédérique Pilleboue (ed.): La paix de Vervins, 1598. Fédération des Sociétés d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de l'Aisne, [o. O.] 1998, ISBN 2-906543-07-1 .
Paul Mironneau, Isabelle Pébay-Clottes (Ed.): Paix des armes, paix des âmes. Actes du colloque international tenu au Musée national du château de Pau et à l'Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, les 8, 9, 10 et 11 oct. 1998. Imprimérie Nationale, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-7433-0377-8 .
Jean-François Labourdette, Jean-Pierre Poussou, Marie-Catherine Vignal (eds.): Le Traité de Vervins. (= Collection Roland Mousnier. Vol. 2) Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84050-140-6 (preview on Google Books).

Web links

Contract text for European peace treaties of the premodern online on the website of the Leibniz Institute for European History

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Rainer Babel : Germany and France under the sign of the Habsburg universal monarchy, 1500–1648. (= WBG German-French History. Vol. 3). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-14701-4 , p. 66.
^ Ernst Hinrichs : Heinrich IV. (1589–1610). In: Peter C. Hartmann (Ed.): French kings and emperors of the modern age. From Louis XII. until Napoleon III. 1498-1870. (= Beck'sche Reihe. Vol. 1724) Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-54740-9 , pp. 143-170, here p. 154.

[babel-1] A ^b Rainer Babel : Germany and France under the sign of the Habsburg universal monarchy, 1500–1648. (= WBG German-French History. Vol. 3). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-14701-4 , p. 66.

[hinrichs-2] Ernst Hinrichs : Heinrich IV. (1589–1610). In: Peter C. Hartmann (Ed.): French kings and emperors of the modern age. From Louis XII. until Napoleon III. 1498-1870. (= Beck'sche Reihe. Vol. 1724) Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-54740-9 , pp. 143-170, here p. 154.