Fourth & Fifth phase of the Italian Wars (1508–1516)
Not to be confused with Battle of Cambrai.
War of the League of Cambrai
Part of the Italian Wars
Northern Italy in 1494; by the start of the war in 1508, Louis XII had expelled the Sforza from the Duchy of Milan and added its territory to France.
Date
February 1508 – December 1516
Location
Italy, France, England, and Spain
Result
Franco-Venetian victory
Treaty of Noyon
Treaty of Brussels
Belligerents
1508–1510:
League of Cambrai:
Papal States
Kingdom of France
Holy Roman Empire
Spanish Empire
Duchy of Ferrara
1508–1510:
Republic of Venice
1510–1511:
France
Ferrara
1510–1511:
Papal States
Republic of Venice
1511–1513:
France
Ferrara
Scotland
Florence
Navarre
1511–1513:
Holy League:
Papal States
Republic of Venice
Spanish Empire
Holy Roman Empire
Kingdom of England
Swiss Confederacy
1513–1516:
France
Republic of Venice
Ferrara
1513–1516:
Papal States
Spanish Empire
Holy Roman Empire
Kingdom of England
Duchy of Milan
Swiss Confederacy
Commanders and leaders
1508–1510:
Pope Julius II
Louis XII
Gian Giacomo Trivulzio
Louis de la Trémoille
Charles II d'Amboise
Maximilian I
Alfonso I d'Este
Cardinal d'Este
Ferdinand II
1508–1510:
Leonardo Loredan
Niccolò di Pitigliano
Andrea Gritti
Bartolomeo d'Alviano (POW)
1510–1511:
Louis XII
Charles II d'Amboise
Alfonso I d'Este
1510–1511:
Pope Julius II
1511–1513:
Louis XII
Gaston de Foix †
Jacques de La Palice (POW)
Louis de la Trémoille
André de Foix
Alfonso I d'Este
James IV †
Earl of Montrose †
John III
Pedro de Navarra
1511–1513:
Fabrizio Colonna
Ferdinand II
Ramón de Cardona
Duke of Alba
Pedro Navarro
Maximilian I
Henry VIII
Duke of Norfolk
Edward Howard
Maximilian Sforza
1513–1516:
Francis I
Gian Giacomo Trivulzio
Louis de la Trémoille
Duke of Bourbon
Bartolomeo d'Alviano
1513–1516:
Ramón de Cardona
Fernando d'Ávalos
Georg von Frundsberg
Maximilian Sforza
Matthäus Schiner
Marx Röist
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Padua
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Polesella
Mirandola
Brescia
Ravenna
Navarre
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Novara
Guinegate/The Spurs
Dijon
Flodden Field
La Motta
Marignano
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The War of the League of Cambrai, sometimes known as the War of the Holy League and several other names,[1] was fought from February 1508 to December 1516 as part of the Italian Wars of 1494–1559. The main participants of the war, who fought for its entire duration, were France, the Papal States, and the Republic of Venice; they were joined at various times by nearly every significant power in Western Europe, including Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, England, the Duchy of Milan, the Republic of Florence, the Duchy of Ferrara, and the Swiss.
The war started with the Italienzug of Maximilian I, King of the Romans, crossing into Venetian territory in February 1508 with his army on the way to be crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope in Rome. Meanwhile, Pope Julius II, intending to curb Venetian influence in northern Italy, brought together the League of Cambrai — an anti-Venetian alliance consisting of him, Maximilian I, Louis XII of France, and Ferdinand II of Aragon — which was formally concluded in December 1508. Although the League was initially successful, friction between Julius and Louis caused it to collapse by 1510; Julius then allied himself with Venice against France.
The Veneto–Papal alliance eventually expanded into the Holy League, which drove the French from Italy in 1512; disagreements about the division of the spoils, however, led Venice to abandon the coalition in favor of an alliance with France. Under the leadership of Francis I, who had succeeded Louis on the throne of France, the French and Venetians would regain the territory they had lost in a campaign culminating in the Battle of Marignano in 1515; the treaties of Noyon (August 1516) and Brussels (December 1516), which ended the war the next year, would essentially return the map of Italy to the status quo of 1508.
^The conflict comprising the 1508–1516 portion of the Italian Wars may be divided into three separate wars: the War of the League of Cambrai (1508–1510), the War of the Holy League (1510–1514), and Francis I's First Italian War (1515–1516). The War of the Holy League may be further divided into the Ferrarese War (1510), the War of the Holy League proper (1511–1514), an Anglo-Scottish War (1513) and an Anglo-French War (1513–1514). Certain historians (notably Phillips and Axelrod) refer to each of the component wars separately, while others (notably Norwich) treat the entire conflict as a single war.
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