France · Warfare / Thirty Years War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Initially, Sweden dominated, and command of the war was with Oxenstierna, but France came to dominate, and the League formalised the war as a conflict between Hapsburg and Bourbon and wrecked the hopes of the peace party within Germany.
Sweden organizes a League with German Protestants, Richelieu makes it French dominated.
The Heilbronn League was an alliance between Sweden, France, and the Protestant princes of Western Germany against the Catholic League during the Thirty Years War.
French control increased in August 1634, when the League agreed to accept French funds in return for French control of the fortress of Philippsburg on the east bank of the Rhine for the duration of the war
The Treaty of Paris formally gave control of what remained of the League of Heilbronn to France
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