Battle of Diedenhofen (1639)

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Battle of Diedenhofen
The Battle of Diedenhofen (Thionville) 1639, Pieter Snayers
The Battle of Diedenhofen (Thionville) 1639, Pieter Snayers
date May 28th July / June 7th 1639 greg.
place Diedenhofen , near Luxembourg , Spanish Netherlands , today France
output Spanish victory
Parties to the conflict

Royal Standard of the King of France, svg Kingdom of France

Flag of Cross of Burgundy.svg Kingdom of Spain

Commander

Royal Standard of the King of France, svg Manassès de Pas, Marquis de Feuquières

Flag of Cross of Burgundy.svg Octavio Piccolomini

Troop strength
9,000 infantry,
2,600 cavalry 		14,000 infantry,
6,000 cavalry
losses

6,000 dead and
3,000 wounded in captivity

1,500 dead and wounded

The Battle of Diedenhofen took place in 1639 in the Thirty Years' War between the French and imperial and Spanish troops near Diedenhofen ( Lorraine ).

description

Diedenhofen in Lorraine was besieged by French troops led by Manassès de Pas, Marquis de Feuquières . The siege ring was blown up on June 7, 1639 by an approaching superior force of imperial and Spanish troops, commanded by Octavio Piccolomini , and the French army was defeated despite stubborn resistance.

Feuquières was captured after the lost battle and died of his injuries sustained in battle on March 13, 1640.

For this victory in one of the last great battles of the Thirty Years' War Piccolomini was rewarded and entrusted with the Duchy of Amalfi by the Spanish King Philip IV (as King of Naples that name the III.) On June 28th .

On August 10, 1643, the place was finally conquered by French troops after another siege.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parrott (2001) , p. 137
  2. ^ Thion (2008) , p. 129
  3. ↑ Jacques (2006) , p. 1013

literature

  • Tony Jacques: Dictionary of Battles And Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity Through the Twenty-first Century . Greenwood Publishing Group Publishing, 2006, ISBN 978-0-313-33536-5 .
  • David Parrott: Richelieu's army: war, government, and society in France, 1624-1642 . Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  • Stéphane Thion: French Armies of the Thirty Years War . LRT Editions, 2008, ISBN 978-2-917747-01-8 .
  • Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. Kiesel Verlag, Salzburg 1981, ISBN 3-7023-0113-5 .