Habsburg Catastrophe: The (Staggering) Siege of Mantua 1629 | Thirty Years' War

Play War Thunder now with my links, and get a massive, free bonus pack including vehicles, boosters and more on PC and consoles: https://playwt.link/sandrhomanhistory25 | Mobile: https://wtm.game/sandrhomanhistory25 In 1628, Europe was in flames. The plague had claimed thousands of lives, and the Thirty Years’ War had consumed many parts of the continent. Amid such epochal events, an inheritance dispute in the northern Italian Duchy of Mantua attracted, like a political vortex, the attention of the great powers of Europe and dragged them into a conflict they all wanted to avoid. This dispute quickly escalated into a thrilling war characterized by political intrigue and family entanglements. The War of the Mantuan Succession culminated in the siege of Mantua, a heavily fortified island city that was unintentionally quarantined by the blockade and thus spared from the plague—at least for a while. This is how contemporary historiography tells the story of the staggering siege of Mantua. Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/sandrhomanhistory Paypal (thank you: paypal.me/SandRhomanhistory We also have Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sandrhoman Bibliography Primary Sources: Report of the Ambassador of Vincenzo Tron in 1564 on the occasion of the succession of Duke Gui-glielmo, in: Segarizzi, Arnaldo (ed.), Relazioni di ambasciatori Veneti al Senato, Bari 1912. Capilupi, Scipione, Memorie di molte miserie et accidenti occorsi alli stati di Mantova e Monferrato dopo la morte di Vincenzo secondo duca delli sudetti dui stati, in: Raccolta di cronisti e documen-ti storici lombardi inediti vol. 2, Milano 1857. Literature: Arnold, T. F., Fortifications and the Military Revolution. The Gonzaga Experience 1530-1630, in: Rog-ers, C. J. (Ed.), The Military Revolution Debate. Readings on the Military Transformation of Early Modern Europe, Boulder / San Francisco / Oxford 1995. Lynn, J. A., The trace itallienne and the Growth of Armies, in: Rogers, C. J. (Ed.), The Military Revolution Debate. Readings on the Military Transformation of Early Modern Europe, Boulder / San Francisco / Oxford 1995.Parrott, D., Reichsitalien im Dreissigjährigen Krieg. Der Mantuanische Erbfolgekrieg und der Dreis-sigjährige Krieg, in: 1648: Krieg und Frieden in Europa (vol. 1), p. 153-160, München 1998. Parrott, D., The Mantuan Succession, 1627–31. A Sovereignty Dispute in Early Modern Europe, in: English Historical Review 112 (1997), p. 20–65. Sterling, R. A., Prelude to Disaster. The Precipitation of the War of the Mantuan Succession, 1627–29, in: Historical Journal 33 (1990), p. 769–85. #history #siege #sandrhoman