treaties of Rastatt and Baden

European history
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Also known as: Treaty of Baden
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Date:
March 6, 1714
Participants:
France
Holy Roman Empire

treaties of Rastatt and Baden, (March 6 and Sept. 7, 1714), peace treaties between the Holy Roman emperor Charles VI and France that ended the emperor’s attempt to continue the War of the Spanish Succession (1700–14) after the other states had made peace in the Treaties of Utrecht (beginning in 1713). Charles VI made peace in his own name at Rastatt and in the name of the states of the Holy Roman Empire half a year later at Baden in Switzerland. In these treaties Charles renounced his claims to the Spanish throne but did not actually make peace with Spain ...(100 of 207 words)