War of the League of Cognac
Seventh phase of the Italian Wars (1526–1530)
War of the League of Cognac
The War of the League of Cognac (1526–1530) was fought between the Habsburg dominions of Emperor Charles V—chiefly the Holy Roman Empire and Spain—and the League of Cognac, an alliance comprising the Kingdom of France, Pope Clement VII, the Republic of Venice, the Duchy of Milan and the Republic of Florence, later joined by the Kingdom of England. The war is best known for the Sack of Rome by the Emperor's unpaid troops in 1527, an event that some historians regard as the end of the Italian Renaissance. France withdrew from the war under the Treaty of Cambrai in 1529, and the League's last holdout, Florence, fell in 1530. This cemented Habsburg dominance over the Italian Peninsula.
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