This website presents our knowledge and research on this important aspect of the Royal Collection. As of April 2026 it will not be regularly updated and new research on this topic will sit within the main website.
Contemporary maps of 10 sixteenth-century wars
Schmalkaldic War (1546-7)
- English Wars with France and Scotland (1542-50)
- Schmalkaldic War (1546-7)
- The Last Valois-Habsburg War (1547-59)
- Italian War (1551-9)
- The Grumbach Feud (1567)
- French Wars of Religion
- Fourth Ottoman-Venetian War (1570-73)
- Second Livonian War (1579-82)
- Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604)
- French invasion of the Savoyard States (1597-8)
