Ulm Treaty

The Ulm Treaty was a neutrality agreement between the Catholic League and the Protestant Union under French mediation.

French diplomacy caused the treaty to be signed on July 3, 1620 based on two criteria. On the one hand it was clear that Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596–1632) would not be able to hold Bohemia and that the victory of the Habsburgs should be limited to this area. On the other hand, the French court was certain that a Protestant union freed from the possible burden of fratricidal warfare would defend the Rhenish territories against Spanish claims. This second assumption turned out to be a miscalculation, since a Protestant front against Spain or against the shifting of troops of the Spanish general Ambrosio Spinola (1569-1630), who was preparing the attack on the Electoral Palatinate , was not recognizable.

literature

• Cicely Veronica Wedgwood : The Thirty Years War. Munich 1999, pages 99-101, ISBN 3-517-09017-4