The Schmalkaldic War

After Charles fabricated accord with Francis, he focused on suppressing Protestant attrition aural his empire. From 1546 to 1547, in what is accepted as the Schmalkaldic War, Charles and his allies fought the League over the territories of Ernestine Saxony and Albertine Saxony. Although the League's aggressive armament may accept been superior, its leaders were amateur and clumsy to accede on any absolute action plans.10 On 24 April 1547, the administrative armament aggregate by Charles and Pope Paul III baffled the League's armament at the Action of Mühlberg, capturing abounding leaders, including, best notably, Johann Frederick the Magnanimous and Philip of Hesse, and banishment association of thirty altered cities to reconvert.11 This action finer won the war for Charles; alone two cities connected to resist. Abounding of the princes and key reformers, such as Martin Bucer, fled to England, area they anon afflicted the English Reformation.