Battle of Mühlberg

Battle of Mühlberg
	Part of the Schmalkaldic War
	; The Battle of Mühlberg by Luis de Ávila y Zúñiga (1550)
Date	24 April 1547
Location	Mühlberg, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire; (present-day Germany)51°25′59″N 13°13′00″E
Result	Habsburg victory
Belligerents
Schmalkaldic League: Electorate of Saxony; Hesse; Electoral Palatinate; Bremen; Lübeck; Brunswick-Lüneburg; Duchy of Pomerania; Principality of Anhalt-Köthen; Other German territories;	Empire of Charles V:; Holy Roman Empire Duchy of Saxony; ; Spain; Hungary; ;
Commanders and leaders
John Frederick I (POW); Philip I (POW); Philip I; Wolfgang	Charles V; Duke of Alba; Ferdinand I; Maurice of Wettin; Gian Giacomo Medici; Álvaro de Sande
Strength
6,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry (15 guns)	13,000 infantry and 4,500 cavalry (20 guns)
Casualties and losses
8,000 dead; 500 knights; 1,000 prisoners	Around 50 dead or wounded

The Battle of Mühlberg took place near Mühlberg in the Electorate of Saxony in 1547, during the Schmalkaldic War. The Catholic princes of the Holy Roman Empire led by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V decisively defeated the Lutheran Schmalkaldic League of Protestant princes under the command of Elector John Frederick I of Saxony and Landgrave Philip I of Hesse.

The battle ended the Schmalkaldic war and led to the dissolution of the Schmalkaldic League.

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