Foreign Policy towards HRE and United Provinces

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History AS (Crown, Parliament and Authority) (James I) Mind Map on Foreign Policy towards HRE and United Provinces, created by Katie Difford on 12/04/2013.
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Foreign Policy towards HRE and United Provinces
  1. United Provinces
    1. England and United Provinces had anti-Spanish interests in common
      1. Religious and cultural bonds
        1. Reluctant to make peace with Spain and felt betrayed by England that they had made peace
          1. Twelve Years Truce achieved in 1609
            1. James sold the "cautionary towns" back to the Dutch for £215,000 in 1616
            2. Cleves-Julich Dispute
              1. 1609 - James intervened in the Holy Roman Empire on the vacancy in the duchies of Cleves, Julich and Berg
                1. Offered access to United Provinces
                  1. Duke William of Cleves' succession produced a dispute that threatened to divide Europe
                    1. France and England keen to keep the duchies in Protestant hands
                      1. Spain and the Empire wanted a Catholic candidate
                        1. James emerged as champion when peace was secured in 1614
                        2. Protestant Marriage, 1613
                          1. The marriage of his daughter Elizabeth to the Elector Frederick of the Palatinate showed sympathy for the German Protestant Union
                            1. Hoped to balance this with a Catholic marriage for his son
                              1. Work in the Cleves-Julich crises and the Protestant marriage met with the approval of the Puritans
                                1. Appeared that after the death of Henry IV in 1610, James was not likely to wield the Protestant sword
                                  1. Caused problems as it raised Puritans hopes
                                  2. Bohemia and the Palatinate Question
                                    1. May 1618 - Defenestration of Prague began Thirty Years War
                                      1. Bohemian Protestant minority elected Frederick of the Palatinate over Archduke Ferdinand over fears of Catholic extremeism
                                        1. James expected to support Frederick when the Hasburgs went to war against him
                                          1. James did not approve of Frederick accepting the Bohemian throne
                                            1. His sensitivities to his financial problems, his love of peace, quest for stability, and his hatred of rebellion, made him cautious of intervention
                                              1. This put James in a difficult position as he had accepted the Spanish suggestion to act as a mediator in the Bohemian question
                                                1. Worked for James as he wanted Charles to marry the Spanish infanta
                                                2. Spanish invasion of the palatinate had unleashed...
                                                  1. Strong anti-catholic feelings
                                                    1. Hostility to the power of Hasburgs
                                                      1. Hatred of Spain and the perceived influence of Gondomar
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