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On 14 April 1646, the imperial ambassador Maximilian von und zu Trauttmansdorff, during negotiations to end the Thirty Years' War, offered "Upper and Lower Alsace and the Sundgau, under the title of Landgraviate of Alsace" to the French.[1] There was no such territory, since Alsace was at the time divided into several jurisdictions held by competing powers. The Archduke Ferdinand Charles held the landgraviate of Upper Alsace, while a relative held the Landvogtei (bailiwick) of Hagenau with a protectorate over the Décapole (a league of ten imperial cities).[5]
Notes
- ^ Known in French as Basse-Alsace, in German Unterelsaß and in Latin as Alsatia Inferior.
References
- ^ a b Croxton 2013, pp. 225–26.
- ^ Arnold 1991, pp. 131–32.
- ^ Leyser 2003, p. 150.
- ^ Hamilton 1928, p. 108.
- ^ Beller 1970, p. 353.
Bibliography
- Arnold, Benjamin (1991). Princes and Territories in Medieval Germany. Cambridge University Press.
- Beller, E. A. (1970). "The Thirty Years War". In Cooper, J. P. (ed.). The New Cambridge Modern History, Volume 4: The Decline of Spain and the Thirty Years War, 1609–48/49. Cambridge University Press.
- Croxton, Derek (2013). Westphalia: The Last Christian Peace. Palgrave MacMillan.
- Hamilton, J. E. (1928). "Alsace and Louis XIV". History. 13 (50): 107–17. .
- Leyser, Karl (2003). Reuter, Timothy (ed.). Communications and Power in Medieval Europe: The Gregorian Revolution and Beyond. Palgrave MacMillan.