1546–1547 conflict within the Holy Roman Empire between Imperial forces and the Schmalkaldic League
For the 1552 Princes' Revolt, see Second Schmalkaldic War.
Schmalkaldic War
Part of European wars of religion and the Protestant Reformation
Titian's Equestrian Portrait of Charles V (1548) celebrates Charles's victory at the Battle of Mühlberg.
Date
10 July 1546 – 23 May 1547
Location
Holy Roman Empire
Result
Imperial victory[1]
Capitulation of Wittenberg: Schmalkaldic League dissolved, Saxon electoral dignity passed to the Albertine House of Wettin
Belligerents
Holy Roman Empire
Habsburg Austria
Electorate of Saxony
Bohemian Crown
Habsburg Spain Habsburg HungarySupported by: Papal States
Schmalkaldic League:
Electorate of Saxony
Hesse
Electoral Palatinate
Bremen
Lübeck
Brunswick-Lüneburg
Württemberg
Pomerania-Wolgast
Anhalt-Köthen
Brandenburg-Küstrin
Lesser German states
Supported by: England
Commanders and leaders
Charles V
Ferdinand I
Archduke Maximilian
Duke of Alba
Maurice of Wettin
Ottavio Farnese
John Frederick I
Philip I
Frederick III
Ulrich I
Philip I
Wolfgang
Sebastian Schertlin von Burtenbach
The Schmalkaldic War (German: Schmalkaldischer Krieg) was the short period of violence from 1546 until 1547 between the forces of Emperor Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire (simultaneously King Charles I of Spain), commanded by the Duke of Alba and the Duke of Saxony, and the Lutheran Schmalkaldic League within the domains of the Holy Roman Empire.
^Pál Zsigmond Pach; Ágnes Várkonyi R., eds. (1985). Magyarország története tíz kötetben [History of Hungary in ten volumes] (in Hungarian). Vol. 1 (1526–1686). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. ISBN 963-05-0929-6.
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