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text Parker, Geoffrey Anderson, Alison Deborah 2011-05-07T13:35:49Z 2011-05-07T13:35:49Z 10000-01-01 1992 A complicated succession problem opened in March 1609 with the death of the Duke of Julich-Kleve, for he left no male heirs. Although the duchies were relatively small, their strategic location in the Rhineland area of the German Empire on the border with the divided Netherlands made the succession an international concern. In 1609-10 and 1614 there were two crises which resulted in foreign powers mobilizing armies to intervene in Julich-Kleve; nevertheless no war was fought over the duchies. Indeed the Julich-Kleve succession has the distinction of being the first international crisis in modern times which was solved by diplomacy. Based on research from fourteen European archives, this dissertation examines why England, France, Spain, the Dutch Republic and other German states were willing to go to war over the succession, and why nothing more than a few minor skirmishes actually took place. It also probes international relations and the strengths and limitations of diplomacy in early seventeenth-century Europe. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:35:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9215767.pdf: 17840772 bytes, checksum: 2ce44d1b0bc71da9fb20c377fcbdca6c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1992 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:56:45Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:26:34-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9215767 (UMI)AAI9215767 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/22311 eng Copyright 1992 Anderson, Alison Deborah History, European History, Modern The Julich-Kleve succession crisis (1609-1620): A study in international relations History History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.