Battle of Laupen

Battle of Laupen

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict= Battle of Laupen


caption= Illustration of the Battle of Laupen (by Diebold Schilling the Elder, 1480s). The confederate forces are shown on the right.]
date= June 21,1339
place= Laupen, Berne
casus= Habsburg and Burgundian siege of Laupen.
result= Berne Victory and tightening of Berene and Swiss confederate relationships resulting in Berne's permanent accession in 1353.
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commander1= Rudolf von Erlach
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strength1=6,000
strength2=12,000
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The Battle of Laupen (coord|46|54|N|7|14|E) of 1339 was fought between the Berne and its allies on one side, and Habsburg together with Burgundian allies on the other, with Berne victorious.

Prior to hostilities the City of Berne had undergone heavy expansion, however this expansion came at high expense to the feudal lords in the area. Angered, the feudal lords created a combined force of 12,000 men primarily heavy cavalry. Preceding the battle was an eleven days' siege of Laupen by a force of 12,000 under the command of Louis the Bavarian and the bishop of Basel (Johann II. von Munsingen). The siege was relieved on 21 June by a force of 6,000, consisting of Bernese, supported by Swiss confederates, who had entered a military alliance with Berne in 1323, and other allies (Simmental, Weissenburg, Oberhasli). The victory of the Bernese/Swiss against all odds, outnumbered two to one by a better equipped army, came as a surprise, and chronists record that comments like "God himself must have become a Bernese citizen" were heard among the retreating Habsburg troops. Comparable to the Battle of Bannockburn 25 years earlier, Laupen was one of a string of battles presaging the definite decline of High Medieval heavy cavalry (knights) in the face of improving pikemen tactics during the following century. The battle is also the first occasion for which use of the Swiss cross as a badge to identify confederate troops is attested; it was shown on combatants' clothing as two stripes of textile, contrasting with the red St. George's cross of Habsburg Austria, and with the Saint Andrew's cross used by Burgundy and Maximilian I.

As a consequence of the conflict, the relations of Berne and the Swiss Confederacy tightened, resulting in Berne's permanent accession in 1353.

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* [http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_laupen.html Military History on the Web]


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