Treaty of Vigevano

The Treaty of Vigevano of October 7, 1696 , also called the Peace of Vigevano , was concluded between France and the Duchy of Savoy on the one hand, and Spain and the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy on the other, towards the end of the War of the Palatinate Succession .

Previously, on August 29, 1696, France and Savoy had agreed the Treaty of Turin . Because of the change of sides in Savoy and because of the simultaneous war against the Ottomans , the situation of the Habsburg army in northern Italy was hardly sustainable. Emperor Leopold I feared that the Spaniards would desert after a possible conquest of Milan . Duke Viktor Amadeus II , supplied with French subsidies , was already leading a Franco-Savoyard army against Spanish Milan and besieging Valenza .

At the same time, the war opponents in the Treaty of Vigevano agreed to neutralize Italy . The Austrian troops under Prince Eugene then evacuated the northern Italian theater of war. The ally of the Habsburgs , Wilhelm III. von Orange called the treaty a "betrayal of Vigevano", while Leopold viewed it as "the excusable result of a predicament". In 1697, all parties to the conflict concluded the Peace of Rijswijk .

Individual evidence

↑ Karl Otmar von Aretin : The old empire, 1648-1806. Volume 2: Imperial tradition and Austrian great power politics (1684–1745). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-608-91489-7 , p. 36.
↑ Christopher Storrs: War, diplomacy and the rise of Savoy, 1690-1720. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999, ISBN 0-521-55146-3 , p. 2; and Geoffrey Symcox: Victor Amadeus II. Absolutism in the Savoyard State, 1675-1730. University of California Press, Berkeley 1983, ISBN 0-520-04974-8 , p. 117.
^ Heinz Duchhardt , Matthias Schnettger , Martin Vogt (eds.): Der Friede von Rijswijk 1697. Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2522-3 , pp. 30, 66 and 104; and Karl Otmar Aretin: Das alten Reich, 1648–1806. Volume 2: Imperial tradition and Austrian great power politics (1684–1745). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-608-91489-7 , p. 38.

[1] Karl Otmar von Aretin : The old empire, 1648-1806. Volume 2: Imperial tradition and Austrian great power politics (1684–1745). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-608-91489-7 , p. 36.

[2] Christopher Storrs: War, diplomacy and the rise of Savoy, 1690-1720. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999, ISBN 0-521-55146-3 , p. 2; and Geoffrey Symcox: Victor Amadeus II. Absolutism in the Savoyard State, 1675-1730. University of California Press, Berkeley 1983, ISBN 0-520-04974-8 , p. 117.

[3] Heinz Duchhardt , Matthias Schnettger , Martin Vogt (eds.): Der Friede von Rijswijk 1697. Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2522-3 , pp. 30, 66 and 104; and Karl Otmar Aretin: Das alten Reich, 1648–1806. Volume 2: Imperial tradition and Austrian great power politics (1684–1745). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-608-91489-7 , p. 38.