Sebastiano Venier was a Venetian general best remembered for his role in the Battle of Lepanto where a Christian '
Holy League' defeated the Ottoman Empire in 1571.
The
Holy League established by Pope Julius II was set up against which country?
He later changed it to Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary after the
Holy League defeated the Turks in the Battle of Lepanto, off the coast of Greece, in a place now called Naupactos.
In that same year, Henry joined the
Holy League, a military alliance directed against France, and implemented an aggressive policy towards Scotland designed to curtail Scottish independence.
What was the name of the sea battle in 1571 when combined forces of the
Holy League defeated the Ottoman Empire?
Part II of the collection, titled "Translations," includes excerpts of Lope de Vega's The
Holy League (1603), Gonzalo de Illescas's The Second Part of the Pontifical and Catholic History (1606), Jean Desmares's Roxelana (1643), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Giangir; or the Rejected Throne (1748), and Denys Sichynsky's Roksoliana; Historical Opera in Three Acts with a Prologue (1911).
Pius V was a saint who had the reputation of a warrior because of the
Holy League against the Turks; his implementation of the Council of Trent contributed to centralizing papal power.
During the last, long
Holy League War (1684-1699) the Vatican did organize and finance a united Catholic (and for a time Russian) response to the Ottoman assault on Vienna in 1683.
In the Ionian Sea, closer in fact to Curzolaris than to Lepanto, the fleets of the Ottoman Empire and the
Holy League clashed, and for the first time, the Christians won.
Aside from the plague, which ravaged Venice for most of 1575-77, Fenlon singles out three high points for exegesis: the formation in 1571 of the
Holy League; the subsequent victory over the Ottoman Turks at Lepanto; and Henri III's visit to Venice in 1574.
Mark Konnert's Local Politics in the French Wars of Religion also deals primarily with deeds as it attempts to untangle the complicated politics of factional affiliation in the towns of Champagne during the period when the Wars of Religion radicalized and a
Holy League headed by the province's leading family, the Guises, placed itself in more and more overt opposition to the policies of compromise adopted by the Crown.