HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - List Of Spanish Monarchs, Margaret Theresa Of Spain, Breisach
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Mistake #1: revoking the edict of nantes. Most important result is the international fallout it provoked most of protestant. He furthermore failed to impress the catholic powers of europe by attempting to appear more catholic than the pope. The catholics instead turned to leopold i, the holy roman emperor for pushing back the ottoman turks in the battle of mohasc. The french realized that they only had 1 of the 330 states left in germany that was still loyal to them: the leader of cologne & liege. True this was a very strategically placed state, but the pro-french ruler fell into sickness and died in the. The holy roman empire managed to engineer the election, with papal approval, of. Joseph clement of bavaria as the new anti-french ruler of cologne & liege in late. Joseph clement was the younger brother of max emmanuel (the ruler of bavaria), who was in charge of the imperial german forces.