Scots in the Habsburg service, 1618-1648
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Scots in the Habsburg service, 1618-1648
（History of warfare, v. 21）
Brill, 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-318) and index
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Description
Between 1618 and 1648, a number of Scottish expatriates appeared at the major centres of Habsburg dynastic power: Madrid, Brussels, and the peripatetic court of the Holy Roman Emperor. In dealing with their activities, this book challenges the notion that France or the northern Low Countries invariably provided the country's strongest continental connections during the early modern period.
The first part of the text relates to the Spanish Habsburg lands, while the second introduces several military entrepreneurs who rose to prominence in the service of the eastern, 'Austrian' branch of the dynasty. From the mid-1630s, most of this diverse group became allies, in promoting the cause of the Scottish-born, former 'Winter Queen' of Bohemia, Elizabeth Stuart, and her family.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Note on dates/currency
Chronology
Glossary of foreign terms
Glossary of foreign names
Abstract
CHAPTER ONE Scottish Activities in Central, Western and Southern Mainland Europe (Excluding France) to 1618
PART I: THE SPANISH HABSBURG LANDS: WILLIAM AND HUGH SEMPLE AND THEIR CIRCLE
Introduction: A Policy of Dynastic Universalim? The Habsburg Alliance, 1618-33
CHAPTER TWO 1618-25: The Arbitrista and the "Earl of Guile"
CHAPTER THREE 1625-33: Militancy or Loyalism?
CHAPTER FOUR After 1633: Pro-Palatinate Initiatives
PART II: THE AUSTRIAN HABSBURG LANDS: WALTER LESLIE AND HIS CIRCLE
Introduction: The End of Aspirations to Universal Empire? The Habsburg Alliance, 1633-48
CHAPTER FIVE 1633-5: The Assassination of General Wallenstein
CHAPTER SIX 1635-7: An "Anglo-Austrian" Alliance?
CHAPTER SEVEN 1637-40: The Count and the New Emperor
CHAPTER EIGHT 1640-2: The Palatinate cause and the Imperial Diet at Regensburg
CHAPTER NINE 1642-8: Towards a Peace Treaty in Westphalia
Conclusion
Map 1. Scotland and Habsburg Europe c. 1618
Map 2. Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia c. 1634
Appendix 1: Scots at the Habsburg courts, 1618 to 1648
Appendix 2: Scots in the Habsburg armies, 1618 to 1648
Appendix 3: The Scots and Irish at Eger and their post-1634 careers in Imperial service
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Index
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