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

Historians of Savoy tend to pass over its history in the wake of the Burgundian Wars until the accession of 1504 of Duke Charles ...

The Troubled Inheritance of Duke Charles II 85 fratricidal rivalries, and sheer incapacity.142 It is only necessary to recall th ...

86 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 circumstances—by the structure and political culture of his duchy and by his chroni ...

The Troubled Inheritance of Duke Charles II 87 invariably high-ranking noblemen.154 In general, Lino Marini believes, Charles co ...

88 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 By contrast, the other Estates paid next to nothing! The Vaud Estates grudgingly st ...

Exactly what drove Jean Dufour, a Savoy councillor with twenty-seven years of service behind him (according to his own testimony ...

90 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 supposedly conspired to bring about his dismissal from office as chancellor, leavin ...

The Dufour Affair 91 equally between Orléans and the cantons.176 Be that as it may, Dufour presented his forgery at a diet in Be ...

92 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 years later. In early 1510 he had promised to return all documents and titles in hi ...

The Dufour Affair 93 The cantons, who were naturally delighted at the prospect of such a windfall, debated the issue at several ...

94 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 Arsent, who had just been executed for abetting the flight of a notorious condot- t ...

The Dufour Affair 95 The frauds were recorded in both Swiss and Piedmont chronicles,214 yet seem to have had few long-term conse ...

Richard Feller believed that the Dufour affair marked a gradual estrangement between Bern and Savoy, for so long linked by Burgr ...

All Unquiet on the Western Front 97 reward for loyal service224 (or in lieu of unpaid wages?) in the king’s campaigns against Di ...

98 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 The French remained understandably perturbed. While no direct connection to the eve ...

All Unquiet on the Western Front 99 The reasons why Bern and its allies gave way in 1514 are not straightforward. There was cert ...

100 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 French crown led both to the conclusion of a Perpetual Peace in 1516 (confirmed in ...

All Unquiet on the Western Front 101 attempted to retake Blamont. His failure prompted both the Swiss and the emperor to urge me ...

102 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 Such are the bare bones of the story. Duke Ulrich of Württemberg’s involvement wit ...

The Dufour affairs had revealed how intimate a knowledge of Savoy’s difficulties and the machinations of Duke Charles the elite ...