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Name: Bavaria (Military Occupation)

Type: Polity

Start: 1023 AD

End: 1743 AD

Parent: bavaria

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Polity that includes all territories militarly occupied by Bavaria that are not part of a specific military territory.

Establishment


  • January 1023: Holy Roman Emperor Henry II, in 1022, conquered Capua and Benevento.
  • Chronology


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    1. Indipendance of Capua and Benevento


    Was the end of a period of Bavarian domain over Benevento and Capua.

  • January 1027: Pandulf IV was released by Emperor Conrad II in 1024 at the request of Prince Guaimar III of Salerno, who was hoping for a new ally. Aided by Guaimar and the Norman knight Rainulf Drengot, Pandulf immediately besieged Capua. In 1025, Basil, returning from an expedition to Sicily, joined them in large forces. In 1026, after an 18-month siege, the city fell. The Greek commander gave the Count of Teano safe conduct to Naples. Pandulf resumed his dominion and remained in power until 1038.
  • January 1027: Pandulf IV of Capua was released by Emperor Conrad II in 1024 at the request of Prince Guaimar III of Salerno, who was hoping for a new ally. Aided by Guaimar and the Norman knight Rainulf Drengot, Pandulf immediately besieged Capua, his old domain that had been given to a new prince by the emperor. Pandulf was able to succesfully reconquer Capua.

  • 2. European wars of religion


    Were a series of wars in Europe (and the overseas possessions of European countries) the 16th, 17th and early 18th that started after the Protestant Reformation. Although the immediate causes of the wars were religious, the motives were complex and also included territorial ambitions.

    2.1.Thirty Years' War

    Was a war that took place mainly in central Europe between 1618 and 1648. The war began as a religious conflict between Catholics and Protestant in the Holy Roman Empire but then escalated into a conflict for the hegemony in Europe between Habsburg Spain and Austria, Sweden and France.

    2.1.1.Bohemian-Palatine period

    Was the first period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with a protestant revolt in Bohemia, at the time a territory of the Habsburg Domains.

    2.1.1.1.War in Palatinate

    Was the theatre of war in Palatinate during the first phase of the Thirty Years' War.

  • 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.

  • 2.1.2.Swedish Period

    Was the third main period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with the intervention of the Kingdom of Sweden.

  • April 1632: On April 15, during the Battle of Rain am Lech, east of Donauwörth, the Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Imperial forces commanded by Tilly.
  • November 1633: The Swedes under Bernard of Saxe-Weimar capture Ratisbon (today known as Regensburg).
  • December 1633: The lack of payment of wages led to mutinies among the soldiers, causing delays in the swedish conquest of Regensburg until November 1633.

  • 2.1.3.Franco-Swedish Period

    Was the fourth main period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with the intervention of the Kingdom of France.

    2.1.3.1.North German Front (Sweden)

    Was the north German front during the Franco-Swedish period of the Thirty Years' War.

  • June 1648: In May 1648, there was the last major field battle of the Thirty Years' War between French-Swedish and Imperial-Bavarian armies near Augsburg.
  • July 1648: Swedish Siege of Prague from July 25, 1648.
  • November 1648: When in November Gustaf of Sweden received a report about the signed peace, he ordered his troops to leave. Also the French troops started leaving the occupied territories in the Holy Roman Empire.

  • 2.1.3.2.Rhineland Front (France)

    Was the Rhineland front during the Franco-Swedish period of the Thirty Years' War.

  • May 1648: The French returned to Swabia and then to Bavaria. They defeated the Imperial forces at Zusmarshausen (May 17, 1648) and drove Maximilian of Bavaria out of Munich.

  • 2.1.4.Peace of Westphalia

    Were a series of treaties that ended the Thirty Years' War. Catholics and Protestants were redefined as equal in the territories of the Holy Roman Empire. There were major territorial adjustments. In particular, France, Sweden and Brandenburg had major territorial gains, and several religious territories of the Holy Roman Empire were secularized.

  • October 1648: Maximilian kept the Upper Palatinate, to the north of Bavaria.

  • 3. War of the Spanish Succession


    The death of childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700 led to a struggle for control of the Spanish Empire between his heirs, Philip of Anjou and Charles of Austria, and their respective supporters. It was a global war, with fighting taking place in Europe, Asia, and America. At the end of the war, Philip II, who was the successor chosen by Charles II as a descendant of Charles' paternal half-sister Maria Theresa, became King of Spain and of its overseas empire. The Spanish possessions in Europe were partitioned between various European Monarchies.

    3.1.Dutch and German Theatre (War of the Spanish Succession)

    Was the theatre of war of the War of the Spanish Succession in Germany and the Low Countries.

  • January 1703: In mid-January 1704 the Elector of Bavaria took Passau on the Danube.
  • November 1704: By the Treaty of Ilbersheim, signed 7 November 1704, Bavaria was placed under Austrian military rule, allowing the Habsburgs to use its resources for the rest of the War of the Spanish Succession.

  • 4. Silesian Wars


    Were a series of wars between the Habsburg Domains and Prussia for the control of Silesia. The war started during the War of the Austrian Succession, when Frederick the Great of Prussia invaded Habsburg-held Silesia.

    4.1.First Silesian War

    Was the first of three wars between Austria and Prussia for the control of Silesia. It was part of the War of the Austrian Succession. The war started when Prussia invaded Silesia. The possession of the region by Prussia was aknowledged by Austria at the end of the war.

    4.1.1.Bohemian Theatre (First Silesian WarWar)

    Was the Bohemian theatre of the First Silesian War.

  • December 1741: Charles Albert was the Elector of Bavaria, who was supported by France in his claim to the Bohemian throne during the War of the Austrian Succession. He proclaimed himself King of Bohemia on 7 December 1741 after his forces occupied the territory.
  • January 1743: Siege of Prague.

  • 4.1.2.Bavarian Theatre

    Was the Bavarian theatre of the First Silesian War.

  • June 1743: In mid-June, the Pragmatic army arrived at Aschaffenburg, on the north bank of the River Main.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1743: Siege of Prague.
  • June 1743: In mid-June, the Pragmatic army arrived at Aschaffenburg, on the north bank of the River Main.
  • Selected Sources


  • Krumenacker, Y. (2008): La Guerre de Trente Ans, Paris, Ellipses, pp. 146-147
  • Schmiele, E. (1887): Zur Geschichte des schwedisch-polnischen Krieges von 1655 bis 1660, Berlin (Germany), p. 5
  • Spindler, M. (2017): Geschichte Schwabens bis zum Ausgang des 18. Jahrhunderts, Munich (Germany), p. 266
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