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Peace negotiations had begun as early as 1676, but nothing was agreed to and signed before 1678. Most treaties were concluded in Nijmegen, therefore the sum of all documents is known as the 'Treaties of Nijmegen'.
The peace talks that began at Nijmegen in 1676 were given a greater sense of urgency in November 1677 when William of Orange married his cousin Mary, Charles II of England's niece. An Anglo-Dutch defensive alliance followed in March 1678, [a] although English troops did not arrive in significant numbers until late May. [11]
This silver medal is a beautiful example of his work and was specially made to commemorate the peace treaties signed in Nijmegen. The medal features a panorama of the city of Nijmegen with various negotiators in the foreground. At the top are the city arms on a banderole, with the words: FIRMATA NEOMAGI PAX 1678 (peace signed in Nijmegen 1678).
With the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678, France resumed diplomatic relations with the Dutch Republic, and Jean-Antoine de Mesmes was appointed ambassador at The Hague. He had been preceded by Pomponne before the interruption caused by the Franco-Dutch War. [16]
The Treaties of Nijmegen (1678) and the earlier Peace of Westphalia (1648) provided Louis XIV with the justification for the Reunions. These treaties had awarded France territorial gains, but owing to the vagaries of their language (as with most treaties of the time) they were notoriously imprecise and self-contradictory, and never specified ...
Treaties of Nijmegen (1678–79) France acquires Saint-Omer , Cassel, Aire and Ypres , Cambrésis (definitively), Valenciennes and Maubeuge ; La Tour d'Auvergne acquires sovereignty over Bouillon (as a French protectorate) from Liège, and renounces all rights to Sedan to France; 1683 1684 War of the Reunions Holy Roman Empire
After the Treaties of Nijmegen (1678/1679) had ended the Franco-Dutch War, France was able to support Sweden again, [5] and invaded the Brandenburgian Duchy of Cleves on the lower Rhine. [9] Brandenburg, short of troops in the area and deprived of allies by the Nijmegen treaties, had no choice than to settle for peace with France at the expense ...
Frontière de fer or pré carré is the name given in military historiography to the double line of fortresses that king Louis XIV of France had constructed after the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678 to protect what was then Northern France against foreign invasion, and to be used as operational bases against foreign enemies in the years of the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession.