Toggenburg War

Toggenburg War
Second War of Villmergen
Part of European wars of religion

  Protestant cantons Bern and Zürich and allies
  Five Catholic cantons and allies
  Neutral parties
Date12 April – 11 August 1712
Location
Old Swiss Confederacy
Result

Protestant victory

  • Peace of Aarau (11 August 1712)
  • Peace of Baden (16 June 1718)
  • Sack of the Abbey of St. Gall
  • End of the Catholic hegemony
Belligerents

Protestants

Catholics

The Toggenburg War, also known as the Second War of Villmergen[2] or the Swiss Civil War of 1712,[3] was a Swiss civil war during the Old Swiss Confederacy from 12 April to 11 August 1712. The Catholic "inner cantons" and the Imperial Abbey of Saint Gall fought the Protestant cantons of Bern and Zürich as well as the abbatial subjects of Toggenburg. The conflict was a religious war, a war for hegemony in the Confederacy and an uprising of subjects.[4] The war ended in a Protestant victory and upset the balance of political power within the Confederacy.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Valais was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ (in Dutch) Encarta-encyclopedie Winkler Prins (1993–2002) s.v. "Zwitserland. §5.2 Reformatie". Microsoft Corporation/Het Spectrum.
  3. ^ Graham Nattrass, The Swiss civil war of 1712 in contemporary sources The British Library Journal 19 (1993), pp. 11–33; Nattrass, "Further sources for the Swiss civil war of 1712 in the British Library's collections", The British Library Journal 25 (1999), pp. 164–79.
  4. ^ (in German) Im Hof: Ancien Régime. 1977, p. 694.