War in Palatinate
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Was the theatre of war in Palatinate during the first phase of the Thirty Years' War.
Chronology
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January 1622: German Protestant military leader Christian of Brunswick captures Lippstadt.
September 1620: Ambrosio Spinola was a Spanish general who led the military occupation of the Left Rhine territories of the Palatinate in 1620. Spinola was known for his successful campaigns in Flanders and was tasked with expanding Spanish control in the region.
December 1621: German Protestant military leader Christian of Brunswick takes Amöneburg, not far from Mainz.
January 1622: Christian of Brunswick captures Soest.
September 1622: From the summer of 1622, the territories of the Palatinate on the right bank of the Rhine were occupied by the troops of the Catholc League. Frederick V of the Palatinate eventually lost his electoral dignity on February 23, 1623, which was transferred to Maximilian of Bavaria.
September 1622: The Catholic League led by General Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, captured the Protestant city of Heidelberg.
November 1622: General Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, captures Mannheim.
August 1623: In 1623, in Palatinate, Frederick V of the Electoral Palatinate signed an armistice with Ferdinand II after Tilly defeated a Protestant army led by Christian of Brunswick in the Battle of Stadtlohn. This marked the end of the "Palatine Phase" of the Thirty Years' War.
June 1621: Frederick V, Elector Palatine and his wife Elizabeth Stuart withdrew to Flanders in the spring of 1621 after losing the Battle of White Mountain in the Left Rhine territories of the Palatinate.
January 1622: After the defeat of Elector Friedrich V in the Battle of Weißer Berg near Prague on November 8, 1620, the Upper Palatinate was occupied by Bavaria in 1621, re-catholicized and annexed in 1628.
