The Schmalkaldic League (English: /ʃmɔːlˈkɔːldɪk/; German: Schmalkaldischer Bund; Medieval Latin: Foedus Smalcaldicum or Liga Smalcaldica) was a military...

commanded by the Duke of Alba and the Duke of Saxony, and the Lutheran Schmalkaldic League within the domains of the Holy Roman Empire. In the course of the...

resulted in the foundation of: the League of Gotha, then the League of Torgau, and finally the Schmalkaldic League. The Holy Roman Empire's elector John...

[page needed][page needed] The battle ended the Schmalkaldic war and led to the dissolution of the Schmalkaldic League. The spread of the Protestant Reformation...

for a meeting of the Schmalkaldic League in preparation for an intended ecumenical Council of the Church. The Schmalkaldic League was organized in 1531...

Catholic League of Dessau, succeeded by the Schmalkaldic League Schmalkaldic League (1531–1546), a league of Protestant princes against the Holy Roman...

Magnanimous, was the Elector of Saxony (1532–1547) and head of the Schmalkaldic League. John Frederick was the eldest son of John, Elector of Saxony by...

continuation of the First Schmalkaldic War (1546–1547), in which Charles V and Maurice of Saxony jointly defeated the Schmalkaldic League of almost the same...

Settlement, was a treaty between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Schmalkaldic League, signed on 25 September 1555 in the German city of Augsburg. It officially...

princes against the Catholic League of Dessau, succeeded by the Schmalkaldic League Schmalkaldic League (1531-1546), a league of Protestant princes against...

of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1546 the Schmalkaldic League raised an army. Elector John Frederick led the league's troops south, but shortly thereafter...

Landesordnung) of 1543. Later, Maurice refused to join the Protestant Schmalkaldic League, although Philip of Hesse, his friend and father-in-law, was its...

Schmalkalden in December 1530. Here they banded together to form the Schmalkaldic League (German: Schmalkaldischer Bund), an alliance designed to protect...

Emperor and the catholic League of Nuremberg (formed in 1538) supported the Tridentine summit, but the Protestant Schmalkaldic League refused to recognize...

The Ernestine predominance ended in the Schmalkaldic War (1546/7), which pitted the Protestant Schmalkaldic League against the Emperor Charles V. Although...

Emperor, who had just defeated the forces of the Protestant Schmalkaldic League in the Schmalkaldic War of 1546/47. Although it ordered Protestants to readopt...

ensuing religious war between the Catholic emperor and the Protestant Schmalkaldic League, are especially noteworthy. With the Peace of Augsburg, the cuius...

war for religious purposes could be regarded as a just war. The Schmalkaldic League—the Protestant Imperial Estates' defensive alliance—was signed by...

response, the Protestant territories in and around Germany formed the Schmalkaldic League to fight against the Catholic Holy Roman Empire. Charles V left again...

in the political events of his time, including involvement in the Schmalkaldic League and negotiations leading to the Peace of Passau. William advanced...

The League of Torgau was set up soon after the 1526 Imperial Diet of Speyer. Other Protestant leagues: Schmalkaldic League (1531-1546), a league of Protestant...

were made with the Schmalkaldic League. Cranmer and Bucer's relationship became ever closer owing to Charles V's victory over the League at Mühlberg, which...

Elector of Saxony and Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, for leading the Schmalkaldic League. 1566 - Wilhelm von Grumbach, for insurgency. 1621 - Frederick V...

organization of the Council of Trent (1545). The refusal of the Lutheran Schmalkaldic League to recognize the council's validity led to a war, won by Charles...

suppression against themselves, several Lutheran princes formed the Schmalkaldic League, an alliance through which they agreed to protect themselves and...

themselves into a defensive league to protect themselves from Emperor Charles. Under the protection of the Schmalkaldic League, the Protestant states committed...

hostilities (1546) between the emperor and the Schmalkaldic League, Augsburg, as a member of the league, took up arms against Charles V, and Bishop Otto...

an option to buy it back. In 1531, George joined the Protestant Schmalkaldic League against Emperor Charles V. With the help of Landgrave Philip I of...

of Mühlberg: Emperor Charles V defeats the Lutheran forces of the Schmalkaldic League and takes John Frederick I. May 19 – John Frederick I signs the Capitulation...

counterattack in the Schmalkaldic War, the Holy Roman Empire army attacks Frankfurt, the German stronghold of the Schmalkaldic League, but is forced to retreat...