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Lot 70003 – LETTER FROM ARCHDUKE MAXIMILIAN TO THE FUTURE H.R.E. FERDINAND II Uskok War or War of Gradisca. 1616 (Sept 22), letter signed by Archduke Maximilian

LETTER FROM ARCHDUKE MAXIMILIAN TO THE FUTURE H.R.E. FERDINAND II  Uskok War or War of Gradisca. 1616 (Sept 22), letter signed by Archduke Maximilian
Lot 70003 – LETTER FROM ARCHDUKE MAXIMILIAN TO THE FUTURE H.R.E. FERDINAND II Uskok War or War of Gradisca. 1616 (Sept 22), letter signed by Archduke Maximilian
Austria
Price realised
1’000 EUR
Estimate
750 – 1’000 EUR
Auction date
Thu 3 Dec 2020 at 20:00 (Europe/Zurich)
Description

LETTER FROM ARCHDUKE MAXIMILIAN TO THE FUTURE H.R.E. FERDINAND II

Uskok War or War of Gradisca. 1616 (Sept 22) Letter signed by Archduke Maximilian sent to Archduke Ferdinand (Emperor Ferdinand II), showing red wax seal on reverse, with interesting contents including: “the good name of His Imperial Majesty and of our whole house has to be restored, the insolence of the Venetian Lords must be tempered and other highly dangerous complications prevented. (…) the fierce outbreak of force by the enemy hardly can be met by other means than through combined action of all our house. This has to be enacted first of all by His Imperial Majesty and Dilection of Spain and also those ordered by the Holy Empire”. Archduke Maximilian also suggests two points of negotiation with Spain and to dispatch special persons to meet the Spanish Ambassador in Prague and the Governor of Milan (then in Spanish hands). A fascinating letter, including an English translation

Note: The Uksok War confronted the Austrians and Spanish with the Venetians, Dutch and English. The Uskoks, Croatian soldiers who became pirates, were vassals of Archduke Ferdinand. The attacks by the Uskoks on Venetian merchantmen provoked the siege by Venice of Gradisca by the Adriatic Sea and the war with Austria breaking out in 1616. As a result of a problematic situation in Germany, Ferdinando wanted to avoid a war, as Venice also did fearing of a Spanish intervention. A treaty of peace. was signed on November 6, 1616 with the mediation of Philip III of Spain, Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, Emperor Matthias the King of Bohemia and the Republic of Venice, with the consequence of Venetians returning to Austria the territories they had occupied in Istria and Friuli

Provenance: Rothschild

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