Peace of Vervins

The peace of Vervins was signed, the May 2nd 1598 with Vervins (current Aisne) between the kings Henri IV of France and Philippe II of Spain. This treaty confirmed in particular the clauses previously signed at the time of the Franco-Spanish treated of Cateau-Cambrésis (April 3rd 1559) between the same Philippe II and the king Henri II, by adding various new clauses to it.

Under the terms of this treaty,

Spain restored in France the Vermandois, part of the Picardy, the town of Calais and Blavet (Port-Louis, Brittany),
while France returned to Spain the various Charolais and fortified town which France had seized since the preceding treaty and renonçait with suzerainty on the Flanders and the Artois (remote after-effects of the quarrel between Louis XI and Charles Bold the, duke of Burgundy). Henri IV refused however to ratify the annexation of the “Spanish” Navarre, realized in 1512 by Ferdinand II of Aragon, great-grandfather of Philippe II.

This treaty marks the end of the Spanish preponderance. In spite of nearly forty years of civil war in France, it could be essential neither on the border of North (whereas it holds several places in the years 1590), neither in Brittany, where it maintains the troops, ordered by Don Juan d' Aguila in agreement with the duke of Mercoeur, nor in Provence.

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