Reapers' War

Reapers' War
Part of the Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659) and the Thirty Years' War

Battle of Montjuïc (1641) by Pandolfo Reschi
Date1640–1659
Location
Result Catalan defeat, Franco-Spanish stalemate, Treaty of the Pyrenees
Territorial
changes
County of Roussillon and the northern half of Cerdanya ceded to France
Belligerents
Principality of Catalonia
Kingdom of France Kingdom of France
Spain Habsburg Spain
Commanders and leaders
Pau Claris
Francesc de Tamarit
Josep Margarit
Kingdom of France Louis XIII
Kingdom of France Louis XIV
Kingdom of France Philippe de La Mothe-Houdancourt
Kingdom of France Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé
Spain Philip IV
Spain Viceroy Pedro Fajardo
Spain Duke of Fernandina
Spain Duke of Maqueda
Spain Duke of Ciudad Real
Spain Marquis of Leganés

The Reapers' War (Catalan: Guerra dels Segadors, Eastern Catalan: [ˈɡɛrə ðəls səɣəˈðos]; Spanish: Guerra de los Segadores, French: Guerre des faucheurs), also known as the Catalan Revolt or Catalan Revolution, was a conflict that affected the Principality of Catalonia between 1640 and 1659, in the context of the Franco-Spanish War of 1635–1659. Being the result of a revolutionary process carried out by Catalan peasantry and institutions, as well as French diplomatic movements, it saw the brief establishment of a Catalan Republic and the clash of Habsburg and Bourbon armies on Catalan soil over more than a decade.

It had an enduring effect in the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659), which ceded the County of Roussillon and the northern half of the County of Cerdanya to France (see French Cerdagne), splitting these northern Catalan territories off from the Principality of Catalonia, and thereby receding the borders of Spain to the Pyrenees.