Truce of Adrianople (1547)

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Truce of Adrianople
1547

The 1547 Truce of Adrianople was made between theHoly Roman Empireand theOttoman Empire.

TheTruce of Adrianople in 1547,named after the Ottoman city of Adrianople (present-dayEdirne), was signed betweenCharles VandSuleiman the Magnificent.Through this treaty,Ferdinand I of AustriaandCharles Vrecognized total Ottoman control of Hungary,and even agreed to pay to the Ottomans a yearlytributeof 30,000 gold florins for theirHabsburgpossessions in northern and western Hungary as a buffer for Vienna.The Treaty followed important Ottoman victories inHungary,such as thesiege of Esztergom (1543).

WhenLouis II of Hungaryfell at Mohacs fighting the Turks in 1526, his crown was thrown to the Habsburgs. The agreement bought the Catholic Habsburgs peace on their eastern frontier so they could answer the German Protestant Princes in the west, which coalesced to theThirty Years War,1618-1648. The truce was the result of a triangular affair withJohn Sigismund Zápolya,Voivode of Transylvania.It wasn't until the truce expired in 1551 that Ferdinand I asserted as legitimate his claim to all of Hungary. In it one can glean the dissension that followed the Habsburgs until 1918.