| Strasbourg Bishops' War | |||||
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| Part of European wars of religion and the Protestant Reformation | |||||
 Etching depicting skirmishes between Dachstein and Molsheim on 2 December 1592. | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
Strasbourg  Württemberg Anhalt-Bernburg |
 Lorraine | ||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||
Frederick I  Christian I |
Charles III | ||||
The Strasbourg Bishops' War (German: Bischöflicher Krieg[1] or Straßburger Kapitelstreit;[2] French: Guerre des Evêques; Alsatian: D'r Bischäflig Kriag) (1592–1604) was a conflict between Catholics and Protestants for control of the Bishopric of Strasbourg. It was one of only two sectarian or confessional conflicts, both highly localised, that occurred within the Holy Roman Empire between the Peace of Augsburg (1555) and the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War (1618). It was less bloody than the Cologne War (1583–88).[3] It coincided with the Counter-Reformation and the Spanish Winter (1598–99), and the Catholic victory caused Protestants in Germany great worry that the tide had turned decidedly against them.[3]
- ^ Ziegler, Oskar (1906). Die Politik der Stadt Strassburg im Bischöflichen Kriege, 1592–93. Strasbourg: August Hoffman.
- ^ Gerhard Taddey: Straßburger Kapitelstreit. In: Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Lexikon der deutschen Geschichte. Personen, Ereignisse, Institutionen. Von der Zeitwende bis zum Ausgang des 2. Weltkrieges. 2., überarbeitete Auflage. Kröner, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-520-81302-5, p. 1204f.
- ^ a b Wilson 2011, p. 41.