Battle of St. Quentin (1557)

For other conflicts that are similarly known, see Battle of St. Quentin.

Battle of St. Quentin
Part of the Italian War of 1551–1559
Map of Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy's Dutch campaign
Date 10 – 27 August 1557 Location Saint-Quentin, France Result Spanish-Savoyard victory
Belligerents
Spanish Empire Duchy of Savoy	Kingdom of France
Commanders and leaders
Emmanuel Philibert Ferrante I Gonzaga Lamoral, Count of Egmont Julián Romero	Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers Anne de Montmorency
Strength
60,000[1]–80,000[1]	26,000[2]
Casualties and losses
1,000	3,000 killed and 7,000 captured[1] or 14,000[2]

v t e Italian War of 1551–1559
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The Battle of Saint-Quentin of 1557 was fought at Saint-Quentin in Picardy, during the Italian War of 1551–1559. The Spanish^[a] of Philip II's Spanish Empire, who had regained the support of the English whose Mary I of England he had married, won a significant victory over the French at Saint-Quentin, in northern France.

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  1 Battle
  


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  2 Feast of Saint Lawrence
  


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  3 Impact
  


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  4 Notes
  


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  5 References
  


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  6 Sources
  

Battle

The battle took place on the Feast Day of St. Lawrence 10 August.^[5] Spain, now under the rule of Philip II, was allied with England following Philip's marriage to the queen of England, Mary I. Mary had declared war on France, 7 June 1557.^[6]

At the Battle of St. Quentin the French forces under Constable Anne de Montmorency were overwhelmed, and Montmorency was captured by the forces under the command of the Duke Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy and the Count of Egmont in an alliance with English troops, and the French were defeated.^[6] During the fighting the Saint-Quentin collegiate church was badly damaged by fire.

After the victory over the French at St. Quentin, "the sight of the battlefield gave Philip a permanent distaste for war"; he declined to pursue his advantage, withdrawing to the Spanish Netherlands to the north,^[5] where he had been the Governor since 1555. The Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis ended the war two years later.

Feast of Saint Lawrence

Being of a grave religious bent, Philip II was aware that 10 August is the Feast of St Lawrence, a Roman deacon who was roasted on a gridiron for his Christian beliefs. Hence, in commemoration of the great victory on St Lawrence’s Day, Philip sent orders to Spain that a great palace in the shape of a gridiron should be built in the Guadarrama Mountains northwest of Madrid. Known as El Escorial, it was finally completed in 1584.

Impact

The greatest impact of this battle was not on France, England or Spain, but on Italy. Duke Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy, having won the victory, had also secured a place at the conference table when the terms of peace were deliberated, resulting in the Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis. The duke was able to secure the independence of the Duchy of Savoy, which had been occupied by the French a generation earlier. As part of the peace terms, Emmanuel Philibert married Marguerite d’Angoulême, younger sister of King Henry II of France, in 1559. The Duke of Savoy moved his capital across the Alps to Turin two years later, making Savoy an Italian state and refounding the dynasty of the House of Savoy, which would become the royal house of a united Italy in 1860.

Notes

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   ^ which is to say the international forces gives a brief account based on contemporary sources, noting that Spanish troops constistuted about 10% of the Habsburg total. Kamen claims that the battle was "won by a mainly Netherlandish army commanded by the non-Spaniards the duke of Savoy and the earl of Egmont".^[3] On the other hand, Geoffrey Parker states that Spanish troops were decisive in defeating the French at St. Quentin owing to their high value, as well as in defeating the Ottomans at Hungary in 1532 and at Tunis in 1535, and the German protestants at Mühlberg in 1547.^[4]
   

References

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   ^ ^abc Bonner 1992, p. 35.
   


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   ^ ^ab Nolan 2006, p. 756.
   


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   ^ Kamen 2004, p. 28.
   


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   ^ Parker 1989, p. 41.
   


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   ^ ^ab Tucker 2010, p. 518.
   


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   ^ ^ab Leathes 1907, p. 92.
   

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  Leathes, Stanley (1907). "Habsburg and Valois". In Ward, Adolphus William. The Cambridge Modern History. 10. Cambridge University Press.
  


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  Bonner, E.A. (1992). "Continuing the 'Auld Alliance' in the Sixteenth Century". In Simpson, Grant G. The Scottish Soldier Abroad, 1247-1967. Rowman & Littlefield.
  


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  Kamen, Henry (2004). Golden Age Spain. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 28


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  Kamen, Henry (1997). Philip of Spain. Yale University Press.
  


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  Parker, Geoffrey (1989). España y la rebelión de Flandes. Nerea.
  


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  Nolan, Cathal J. (2006). The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000-1650: An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization. 2. Greenwood Publishing Group.
  

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