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142: 26: 152: 444: 324:. Following the expiration of the decision period, Henry delivered an official ultimatum to the Duke of Savoy, to force his cooperation on the issue. Charles Emmanuel, however, continued to refuse to accede to Henry's demands, whereupon the latter decided to resolve the matter by force and declared war against the duchy in August 1600. 427:), the duke was unable to make any headway against the French armies in Savoy, who continued their progress in occupying the country. The citadel of Montmélian, which had held out after the fall of the town, surrendered in mid-November, and a month later the 451:
Although France had suffered few losses during the war, the threat of Spanish intervention encouraged Henry to accept offers of peace in early 1601, and the conflict was brought to an end on January 17, 1601 by the
435:, was taken and demolished by a joint French and Genevese force. By the end of the year all of Bresse and Savoy were in the hands of the French, with the exception of the citadel of Bourg. 373: 285:. To resolve the dispute, Henry IV suggested to Charles Emmanuel two alternatives: the return of Saluzzo to France, or to retain the marquisate but to cede in exchange the county of 277:, offered to grant the Marquisate of Saluzzo to one of Charles Emmanuel's sons as a French fief, but the Duke of Savoy insisted on outright possession and rejected the proposal. 483:
was initially proposed, but was objected to by Geneva on the grounds that it could expose the city to a Spanish attack. At length, the parties agreed on a new route via the
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In exchange for retaining Saluzzo (dotted area, lower center), Savoy was compelled to cede most of its territories on the far side of the Rhône (striped area, upper left)
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arbitration of the matter proved to be no more successful, and the issue remained unresolved until December 1599, when the king of France received the Duke of Savoy in
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in 1548. France's claim on the marquisate, however, was relatively weak, and in the 1580s its possession of the territory came to be contested by
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Given the superior state of their forces, the French were able to quickly overrun much of Bresse and Savoy. In the first weeks of the conflict,
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to France. In exchange, France formally granted Saluzzo to Savoy, thereby giving up its Italian holdings on the far side of the Alps.
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failed to draw him away from his advance (and was subsequently forced to retreat across the Alps after facing resistance from the
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The History of Italy, From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Commencement of the Wars of the French Revolution, Volume II
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The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659: The Logistics of Spanish Victory and Defeat in the Low Countries' Wars
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with Milan. Since the French annexations threatened to close the corridor, an alternative route through the territory of
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In response to the French invasion, Charles Emmanuel assembled an army of some twenty thousand
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The Duke of Savoy asked for a period of time to make a decision and returned in early 1600 to
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Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the Great, Volume II
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for the Tarentaise in early November. Although a French diversionary expedition to the
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opened its gates to Henry's troops a few days later, and Lesdiguières took both the
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The History of Henry IV, (surnamed "the Great"), King of France and Navarre
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A point of contention during the peace negotiations was the fate of the
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valleys, although the Savoyards were able to repulse an attempt to take
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Batailles françaises: De François il à Louis XIII, 1562 à 1620
341: 313: 309: 274: 119: 53: 480: 385: 278: 266:, and continued to hold it for the following twelve years. 232: 728:(Second ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 392:. In early October Henry made a triumphant entrance into 212:. The war was fought to determine the fate of the former 689:(in French). Chateauroux: A. Majesté et L. Bouchardeau. 608: 431:, which had been erected to menace the nearby city of 235:
in the mid-sixteenth century, having been annexed by
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Index


Savoy
Treaty of Lyon
Marquisate of Saluzzo
Duchy of Savoy
Centallo
Demonte
Roccasparvera
Grésin Bridge
Bresse
Bugey
Valromey

Kingdom of France

Duchy of Savoy
Henry IV of France
Charles de Gontaut, Duke of Biron
François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières
Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully
Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy
Kingdom of France
Henry IV
Duchy of Savoy
Charles Emmanuel I
Marquisate of Saluzzo
Treaty of Lyon
Saluzzo
Alps
Henry II of France

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