League of Cambrai
League of Cambrai | |
|---|---|
| 1508–1511 | |
| Status | Military coalition |
| Membership | |
| Historical era | Early modern period |
• Established | 10 December 1508 |
| 4 October 1511 | |
The League of Cambrai was a military coalition against the Republic of Venice formed on 10 December 1508, by the main European powers, the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of France, in order to expand their hegemony over the Italian Peninsula. The League was formalized by two treaties, both signed on 10 December 1508 in Cambrai, first being a dynastic treaty between Habsburg and Valois rulers, and the second being a wider treaty of military alliance against the Venetians. It gave name to the War of the League of Cambrai (1508-1511). In March 1509, the League was joined by the Crown of Aragon, and also by Pope Julius II, who issued an interdict against the Venetians on 27 April. Already in 1510 the League was left by the Pope, who sided with the Venetians. In 1511 the League continued to dissolve, being abandoned by the king of Aragon, and it finally collapsed in 1512 when the emperor concluded truce with the Venetians, thus leaving the French to continue the war alone.