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The First Italian War, or Charles VIII's Italian War, [2] was the opening phase of the Italian Wars. The war pitted Charles VIII of France , who had initial Milanese aid, against the Holy Roman Empire , Spain and an alliance of Italian powers led by Pope Alexander VI , known as the League of Venice.
The Italian Wars [b] were a series of conflicts fought between 1494 and 1559, mostly in the Italian Peninsula, but later expanding into Flanders, the Rhineland and Mediterranean Sea. The primary belligerents were the Valois kings of France , on one side, and their opponents in the Holy Roman Empire and Spain on the other.
The Italian War of 1494–1498 began when Ludovico Sforza, then Regent of Milan, invited Charles VIII of France to invade Italy, using the Angevin claim to the Kingdom of Naples as a pretext. This in turn was driven by the intense rivalry between Ludovico's wife, Beatrice d'Este , and that of his nephew Gian Galeazzo Sforza , son of Isabella of ...
5–8 September 1494: Battle of Rapallo; 17 October 1494: skirmishes near Sant'Agata sul Santerno; 19–21 October 1494: Siege of Mordano 26–29 October 1494: Siege of Fivizzano; 8–9 November 1494: Florentine revolt against de' Medici; Mid-November – 28 November 1494: French occupation of Florence
Articles relating to the Italian War of 1494–1495 (1494-1495), the opening phase of the Italian Wars.The war pitted Charles VIII of France, who had initial Milanese aid, against the Holy Roman Empire, Spain and an alliance of Italian powers led by Pope Alexander VI, known as the League of Venice.
The War of the League of Cambrai, sometimes known as the War of the Holy League and several other names, [1] was fought from February 1508 to December 1516 as part of the Italian Wars of 1494–1559. The main participants of the war, who fought for its entire duration, were France, the Papal States, and the Republic of Venice; they were joined ...
The precarious balance between these powers came to an end in 1494 as the duke of Milan Ludovico Sforza sought the aid of Charles VIII of France against Venice, triggering the Italian War of 1494–98. As a result, Italy became a battleground of the great European powers for the next sixty years, finally culminating in the Italian War of 1551 ...
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