The Twelve Years Truce (1609)

Randall Lesaffer (°Bruges, 1968) is professor of legal history at Tilburg Law School and professor of international and European legal history at the University of Leuven. He has widely published on the history of international law from 1500 to the present. He is also the author of European Legal History. A cultural and political perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Contributors include leading specialists from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy as well as Singapore on the diplomatic and legal history of the Low Countries of the 16th and 17th centuries: Peter Borschberg, Erik-Jan Broers, Paul Brood, Bram De Ridder, Alicia Esteban Estríngana, Carlo Focarelli, Beatrix C.M. Jacobs, Bernd Klesmann, Georges Martyn, Tim Piceu, Violet Soen, Werner Thomas, Olaf van Nimwegen, Johanna Waelkens and Alain Wijffels.

Note on Contributors ... vii

Introduction ... 1
Randall Lesaffer

Part 1 Truce and Peace

1 The Twelve Years Truce ... 7
Paul Brood

2 Preparing the Ground ... 15
Alicia Esteban Estríngana

3 The Act of Cession, the 1598 and 1600 States General in Brussels and the Peace Negotiations during the Dutch Revolt ... 48
Bram de Ridder Violet Soen

4 The Anglo-Spanish Peace Treaty of 1604 ... 69
Alain Wijffels

Part 2 Truce and War

5 Left ‘Holding the Bag’ ... 89
Peter Borschberg

6 The Tactical Military Revolution and Dutch Army Operations during the Era of the Twelve Years Truce (1592–1618) ... 121
Olaf van Nimwegen

7 ‘Une oppression insupportable au peuple’ ... 152
Tim Piceu

Part 3 Truce and Law

8 The United Provinces ... 181
Beatrix C.M. Jacobs

9 How ‘Sovereign’ were the Southern Netherlands under the Archdukes? ... 196
Georges Martyn

10 The Early Doctrine of International Law as a Bridge from Antiquity to Modernity and Diplomatic Inviolability in 16th- and 17th-Century European Practice ... 210
Carlo Focarelli

11 From Antwerp to Munster (1609/1648) ... 233
Randall Lesaffer, Erik-Jan Broers and Johanna Waelkens

12 ‘La dernière ancre de leur finesse’ ... 256
Bernd Klesmann

13 The Treaty of London, the Twelve Years Truce and Religious Toleration in Spain and the Netherlands (1598–1621) ... 277
Werner Thomas