Holy League (1495)
The so-called Holy League of 1495 (also League of Venice ) was founded by Pope Alexander VI. arranged. This was in conflict with France and several Italian states because of his attempts to secure the possession of secular principalities for his children. After King Charles VIII of France marched into Italy in the so-called First Italian War in 1494 , Alexander succeeded on March 31, 1495 in an alliance of opponents of French hegemony in Italy - alongside himself Ferdinand II of Aragon and Emperor Maximilian I , the Duchy of Milan and the Republic of Venice - to bring together. Its real purpose - the expulsion of Charles VIII from Italy - was supposed to be obscured by the ostensible task of resisting the Ottoman Empire .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Wiesflecker: Maximilian I. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , pp. 458-471 ( digitized version ). here p. 463