Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
The expansion of the Habsburgs into western Europe increasingly led to border tensions with the Kingdom of France, which found itself encircled by Habsburg territory. The subsequent rivalry between the two powers became a cause for several conflicts.
Als Habsburgisch-französischen Gegensatz bezeichnet die Geschichtswissenschaft den von 1516 bis 1756 dauernden Konflikt zwischen dem Haus Habsburg und dem Königreich Frankreich um die Vorherrschaft in Europa. Sowohl offen als auch verdeckt ausgetragen, prägte er 240 Jahre lang die gesamte europäische Macht- und Bündnispolitik ...
The aggressions of Louis XIV of France, from 1667 onward, took territory after territory from the Spanish Habsburgs—large parts of Flanders, the rest of Artois, and other areas in the Netherlands, as well as the whole Franche Comté and, in 1684, the stronghold of Luxembourg—and demonstrated at the same time that the imperial Habsburgs ...
The conflict between the Habsburg Emperor Charles V (1500-1558) and the Valois King of France Francis I (1494-1547) commenced in 1521 and came to an end in 1559 in the reigns of their successors, Philip II and Henry II. Actual fighting took place in the years 1521-29, 1536-38, 1542-44 and 1552-59.
War of the Grand Alliance, (1689–97), the third major war of Louis XIV of France, in which his expansionist plans were blocked by an alliance led by England, the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and the Austrian Habsburgs.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The rivalry between France and the house of Habsburg led to lengthy wars. Charles had his eyes on the duchy of Burgundy and areas in southern France and Italy; Francis I felt uncomfortable with Habsburgs in power on his southern and eastern borders and advanced into the Netherlands and Italy.
The Dutch and the Palatine exiles found little difficulty in engineering an alliance involving France, England, Savoy, Sweden, and Denmark that was dedicated to the restoration of Frederick to his forfeited lands and titles (the Hague Alliance, December 9, 1624).
