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

124 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 over the issue479 he agreed to make payments in instalments, despite the desolatio ...

War or Peace? 125 In any case, Fribourg was not prepared to let go of its prospective grip on the Vaud, even though it had recei ...

After his peregrinations through the Romandie, which had taken him from the eastern end of Lake Geneva to Neuchâtel in the west, ...

Religion or Politics? 127 For a time, these religious tensions ran alongside the issue of Savoy reparations. In April Duke Charl ...

128 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 under strain as city and bishop were increasingly at odds. In a long list of griev ...

Religion or Politics? 129 The uproar in Geneva in the first half of the year, as Catholics and evangelicals struggled for suprem ...

130 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 to show the bishop was intending to install a military governor from Fribourg in t ...

Religion or Politics? 131 despite Geneva’s own retaliation which involved destroying the duke’s fortress (the Tour de l’Île) and ...

132 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 short and succinct. It saw little point in attending another diet at Luzern, since ...

Bern’s reluctance to offer Geneva any practical support—a policy from which the city’s magistrates did not deviate until late 15 ...

134 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 and the Valais communes, though Fribourg assured Bern that it could come to Bern’s ...

The Year of the French 135 his behalf. Whether Francis really intended to invade Savoy is open to question; he may simply have h ...

136 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 who  was a Savoy vassal, was present in the city in the summer,577 and William Mon ...

The Year of the French 137 Savoy, and possibly Emperor Charles V (Duke Charles’s ally), but France as well, which had never aban ...

138 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 Confederal diet in Baden in June (a fair distance to travel), where it sought help ...

The Year of the French 139 persistent foot-dragging. What credence to lend to this report is unclear, since Baudichon’s mission ...

140 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 did not relieve Geneva, the king of France would, a man he described as duplicitou ...

Too often and too glibly has the Bernese conquest of the Vaud in the first two months of 1536 been described as a ‘military prom ...

142 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 there.623 On 18th January Fribourg made its position abundantly clear: free passag ...

The Vagaries of Conquest 143 by leading a detachment which defeated a Savoy troop at Cologny to the east of the city,634 while a ...