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Holy League (1495) or League of Venice, an alliance of several opponents of French hegemony in Italy Holy League (1511) , a Papal-Venetian-Spanish-Imperial-English alliance against France Holy League (1526) , or League of Cognac, formed by France, the papacy, England, Venice and Milan against Emperor Charles V
This alliance was known as the Holy League of 1495, or as the League of Venice, and was proclaimed on 31 March 1495. [25] England joined the League in 1496. [26] The League gathered an army under the condottiero Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua. Including most of the city-states of northern Italy, the League of Venice threatened to shut ...
War of the Holy League proper (1511–1514) October 1511: Pope Julius II proclaimed the new Holy League against France, including the Papal States, Venice, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, England, and the Swiss Confederacy. 18 February 1512: Sack of Brescia. French victory over Venice. The Battle of Ravenna in 1512; 11 April 1512: Battle of ...
This not only alienated the Milanese from the French but also spurred neutral states into active opposition towards the invaders. On 30 March 1495, the Italian states of Venice, Milan, Florence, Naples, Genoa, Mantua and the Papal States, as well as Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, concluded the League of Venice to drive the French out of Italy.
The League of Cambrai was a military coalition against the Republic of Venice formed on 8 December 1508, by the main European powers (Holy Roman Empire, Spain and France), to maintain their hegemony over the Italian Peninsula.
Venice, fearing the loss of her Dalmatian possessions and a possible invasion of Friuli, and eager to cut her losses and resume the trade with the Ottoman Empire, initiated unilateral negotiations with the Porte. [7] The Holy League was disbanded with the peace treaty of 7 March 1573, which concluded the War of Cyprus.
The Holy League was disbanded with the peace treaty of 7 March 1573, which concluded the War of Cyprus. Venice was forced to accept loser's terms in spite of the victory at Lepanto. Cyprus was formally ceded to the Ottoman Empire, and Venice agreed to pay an indemnity of 300,000 ducats.
The Italic League or Most Holy League was an international agreement concluded in Venice on 30 August 1454, between the Papal States, the Republic of Venice, the Duchy of Milan, the Republic of Florence, and the Kingdom of Naples, following the Treaty of Lodi a few months previously.