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The Catholic League (Latin: Liga Catholica, German: Katholische Liga) was a coalition of Catholic states of the Holy Roman Empire formed 10 July 1609.
Catholic League, a military alliance (1609–35) of the Catholic powers of Germany led by Maximilian I, duke of Bavaria, and designed to stem the growth of Protestantism in Germany. In alliance with the Habsburg emperors, the League’s forces, led by Johann Tserclaes, Graf von Tilly, played a key role.
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The Catholic League ( Latin: Liga Catholica, German: Katholische Liga) was a coalition of Catholic states of the Holy Roman Empire formed 10 July 1609. While initially formed as a confederation to act politically to negotiate issues vis-à-vis the Protestant Union (formed 1608), modelled on the more intransigent ultra-Catholic French Catholic ...
Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more — all for only $19.99... Only three years before the League was established, Duke Maximilian of Bavaria (d. 1651), who was afterwards its leading spirit, declared against the formation of a confederacy of the Catholic states of the empire in Germany, proposed by the ...
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Catholic League. German Katholische Liga, a military alliance (1609–35) of the Catholic powers of Germany led by Maximilian I, duke of Bavaria, and designed to stem the growth of Protestantism in Germany. In alliance with the Habsburg emperors, the League's forces, led by Johann Tserclaes, Graf von Tilly, played a key role in the Thirty Years ...
May 22, 2024 · The Holy (or Catholic) League of 1609 was a military alliance of the German Catholic princes, formed at the start of the War of the Jülich Succession (1606–14). During most of the Thirty Years War its forces served the imperial cause, with Tilly as its principal commander.
Feb 24, 2023 · The Catholic League (German), also known as the Liga Catholica, was a coalition of Catholic states in the Holy Roman Empire that existed from 1609 to 1635. This alliance was formed in response to the growing influence of Protestantism and the need to defend Catholicism, leading to the Thirty Years' War.
