The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460-1560. Between Accommodation and Aggression

24 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 In the meantime the situation had deteriorated. The VII cantons were putting pressu ...

Trouble in the Thurgau 25 that his subjects in the eastern Thurgau should swear loyalty to the Swiss—though by the same token he ...

In several respects Konstanz by the late fifteenth century was well on its way to becoming a Swiss city. Its bishops, from Otto ...

Konstanz’s Dilemma 27 for fear of a Swiss military backlash. But once Frederick’s successor, King Maximilian, had added his sign ...

28 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 wrangling between Konstanz on the one hand and Uri, Unterwalden, and Zug, on the ot ...

Konstanz’s Dilemma 29 other cantons’ willingness to broker a settlement with the three Forest cantons was made dependent on the ...

Could full-scale war have been averted? On the Swiss side there were few visible preparations for war.131 Indeed, it has been ar ...

The Swiss or Swabian War of 1499 31 help from both the Swabian League and also imperial cities on the north shore of Lake Konsta ...

32 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 him; only Basel, despite the cities’ threat of a siege, managed to stay neutral.147 ...

The Swiss or Swabian War of 1499 33 remain neutral;158 by the same token, the city withdrew from membership of the Swabian Leagu ...

In the course of 1499 the Swiss from their headquarters at Schwaderloh in the Thurgau, just south of Konstanz, mounted three sep ...

Raids and Retaliation 35 lay next door. It might seem that here was an opportunity missed by a small city-state which had spent ...

36 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 recruited from all the urban cantons had within two weeks retaken Tiengen (where it ...

Raids and Retaliation 37 Konstanz’s lordships of Hallau and Neunkirch, which had been occupied by the  Swiss in April that year, ...

38 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 Helmut Maurer has argued that during the Swiss War the Confederates collectively so ...

Traditionally, the Peace of Basel has been regarded as a watershed. On a regional level the focus of imperial politics shifted f ...

40 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 the renewal of the Perpetual Accord, even though this overture was signed by only f ...

The Peace of Basel and Its Aftermath 41 For its part, Konstanz was unwilling to accept the terms of the treaty as they applied t ...

42 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 foreign powers.227 By 1502, apprehensive that Konstanz might still succumb to a Swi ...

The Peace of Basel and Its Aftermath 43 direct ruling from the emperor himself—another sign of Swiss loyalty to the Empire in pr ...