The Battle of Laupen is a battle in the summer of 1339 between Bern and its allies on the one hand and the Habsburgs with the support of Burgundy on the other. Byrne won the battle [1] .
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 Battle of Laupen. Miniature from Spitz Chronicle by Diebold Schilling the Elder , 1480s | |||
| date of | June 21, 1339 | ||
| A place | Laupen ( Switzerland ) | ||
| Total | Bern's victory | ||
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The Swiss, whose army was commanded by the Bernese knight Rudolf von Erlach, formed a thousand-strong phalanx, and the Bavarians went around. The battle was preceded by an 11-day siege of Laupen by the 12,000-strong Habsburg army led by Ludwig of Bavaria and Bishop Basel Johann II von Munsingen .
The siege was interrupted on June 21, 1339 by the reinforcements of 6 thousand people from Bern who arrived in time, with the support of the Swiss Union , which in 1323 entered into an alliance with Bern.
Victory in the battle served to further rally the cantons of Switzerland .
Notes
- ↑ Laupen // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Literature
- Laupen // Military Encyclopedia : [in 18 vol.] / Ed. V.F. Novitsky [et al.]. - SPb. ; [ M. ]: Type. t-va I. D. Sytin , 1911-1915.