Treaty of Nymphenburg (1741)

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The Treaty of Nymphenburg was signed on May 28, 1741 between Bavaria , France , Saxony , Prussia and Spain at Nymphenburg Palace in Munich .

contract

With the treaty, the Bavarian Elector Karl Albrecht secured the support of King Philip V of Spain in the fight for the German imperial crown after Maria Theresa came to power . The agreement should not only give him the imperial title, but also a part of the German states of Austria that was still to be negotiated. In return, Spain was to receive Austria's Italian possessions.

The conclusion of the treaty contributed significantly to the outbreak of the War of the Austrian Succession .

The French ambassador for the negotiations was Jean-Baptiste-François-Joseph de Sade .

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Another so-called "Nymphenburg Treaty" of May 18 and 22, 1741 between Karl Albrecht of Bavaria and the French King Louis XV. was a fake. It was probably written in August 1741 with the intention of portraying the Bavarian Elector as a traitor to the Reich. In it the Austrian territories should be divided and part of the German lands should fall to France .

literature

  • Karl Theodor von Heigel : On the history of the so-called "Nymphenburger Tractat" from May 22, 1741 . In: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften : Siztzungsberichte der Philosophisch-Philologische und Historischen Klasse , Vol. 6 (1884), pp. 211–245.
  • Gilbert Lély : Vie du Marquis de Sade . Éditions tête de feuilles, Paris 1973 (EA Paris 1950)
    • German: Life and work of the Marquis de Sade . Albatros-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-491-96025-8 (EA Düsseldorf 1961)
  • Gustav A. Schroeter: The Nymphenburg Treaty of May 22, 1741 . Trenkel, Berlin 1911.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Gilbert Lély: Life and Work of the Marquis de Sade , p. 16.

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