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William H. Burnside has taught European history at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, since 1969. He received his degrees in history from Trinity University, California State University at Long Beach, and the University of Arkansas.
Dr. Burnside has traveled in Europe and has pubished fifteen articles and two books on historical topics. His latest published work is The Honorable Powell Clayton , an account of the Union officerturnedReconstruction politician who ultimately attained the governorship of Arkansas.
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The Thirty Years War (1618 1648) had just ended, leaving a devastated Germany and Central Europe of some four hundred semi-autonomous states, referred to as The Empire (i.e., the Holy Roman Empire of the Middle Ages).
The Bourbon dynasty emerged stronger than the Hapsburgs, who had dominated Europe for a century and a half.
The principle that the religion of the Prince is the religion of the realm was extended to permit the Reformed faith (Calvinism) in Germany as well as Catholic and Lutheran Churches.
Dutch and Swiss republics were granted formal recognition as independent powers. Additionally, Sweden, Prussia, and France gained new territory.
The war between France and Spain continued for eleven more years until Spain finally ceded to France part of the Spanish Netherlands and territory in northern Spain. A marriage was arranged between Louis XIV, Bourbon king of France, and Maria Theresa, daughter of the Hapsburg king of Spain, Philip IV.
After the death of his father-in-law, Philip IV, Louis XIV claimed the Spanish Netherlands (Belgium) in the name of his wife. The Law of Devolution granted inheritance to the heirs of a first marriage precedent to those of a second marriage. This law applied in private relationships to property rights, but Louis XIV applied it to political sovereignty.
France invaded the Spanish Netherlands with 50,000 troops in 1667 without a declaration of war. As a defensive measure, England, Holland, and Sweden formed the Triple Alliance.
France received twelve fortified towns on the border of the Spanish Netherlands, but gave up Franche-Comt (Burgundy). Furthermore, the question of sovereignty over the Spanish Netherlands was deferred.
Louis XIV sought revenge for Dutch opposition to French annexation of the Spanish Netherlands. As a Catholic king, he also opposed Dutch Calvinism and republicanism.
France disputed the Triple Alliance by signing separate treaties with England (Charles II: Treaty of Dover, 1670) and with Sweden (1672).
In 1672, France invaded southern Holland with 100,000 troops. William III of Orange became head of state and the Dutch opened the dikes to flood the land and saved Holland and the city of Amsterdam from the French. Brandenburg, the Empire, and Spain allied with Holland against France.
At the wars end, the Peace of Nijmegan (1678 79) granted Holland all of its territory back while Spain and France exchanged more than a dozen territories.
France occupied Luxemburg and Trier and seized Lorraine while signing a twenty-year truce with the Empire.
The League of Augsburg was formed in 1686 to counteract French power and restore the balance of power. Members were The Empire, Holland, Spain, Sweden, the Palatinate, Saxony, Bavaria, and Savoy.
The Glorious Revolution of 1688 brought William III of Orange and his wife, Mary, to the throne of England.
The War of the League of Augsburg opened the long period of Anglo-French rivalry which continued until the defeat of Napoleon in 1815. France fought against the two leading naval powers of the day: Holland and England, and in three theaters of war: on the Rhine, in the Low Countries, and in Italy.
Known in North America as King Williams War (1689 97), English and French colonials clashed along the New York and New England frontiers.
France, England, and Holland agreed to restore captured territories. Fortresses in the Spanish Netherlands were to be garrisoned with Dutch troops as a buffer zone between France and Holland. Additionally, French sovereignty over Alsace and Strasbourg was acknowledged as permanent.
Charles II, the last of the Hapsburg kings of Spain, died childless on November 1, 1700.
The kings will named Philip of Anjou, the grandson of Louis XIV and Maria Theresa, to be king of Spain. In 1698 King Charles had named Emperor Leopolds grandson, the seven-year-old Electoral Prince Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria, as his sole heir. The boy died a few months later and in October 1700, and the king signed the new will in favor of Philip.
THE SPANISH SUCCESSION (1700)
The Second Partition Treaty, however, signed by England, Holland, and France in May 1700, agreed that the son (later, Emperor Charles VI) of the Austrian Hapsburg Emperor Leopold would become king of Spain and Philip of Anjou would be compensated with Italian territories. (Both the mother and first wife of Leopold were daughters of Spanish kings.)
Issues involved in the War of the Spanish Succession were the future of the Spanish Empire. Additional primary causes were whether the Austrian Hapsburg lands would be separated from Spain and whether the dominant strength of France and the Bourbons would now include Spain.
In a sense, Charles II made war almost inevitable. Louis XIV had to fight for his grandsons claims against those of his enemy and Leopold had to do the same.
William III, king of England and Stadholder of Holland, opposed the Spanish Netherlands falling into French control. England also faced Spanish and French competition in the New World. A merger of the Spanish and French thrones would result in a coalition of Spain and France against England and Holland in the Americas.
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