Schmalkaldic War

The Schmalkaldic War (German: Schmalkaldischer Krieg) was the short period of violence from 1546 until 1547 between the forces of Emperor Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire (simultaneously King Charles I of Spain), commanded by the Duke of Alba and the Duke of Saxony, and the Lutheran Schmalkaldic League within the domains of the Holy Roman Empire.

For the 1552 Princes' Revolt, see Second Schmalkaldic War.

Thirty Years' War

Confessionalization

Battle of Mühlberg

Capitulation of Wittenberg

. A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century. London: Methuen & Co. 1937.

Oman, Charles

. Emperor Charles V (1500–1558). Translated by Isola van den Hoven-Vardon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-340-73110-9.

Blockmans, Wim

Smith, Henry Preserved (1920). . New York: Henry Holt and Company.

The Age of the Reformation

(2002). Charles V: Impresario of War. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-81431-6.

Tracy, James D.

at danarehn.com

Protestant Princes against the Papal Beasts from Rome

(in German) at historicum.net

Schmalkaldischer Krieg

– World History at KMLA