Holy League

Holy League may refer to:

  • Holy League (1495), AKA "League of Venice", alliance of several opponents of French hegemony in Italy, arranged by Pope Alexander VI
  • League of Cambrai, anti-Venetian alliance that included Louis XII of France, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, and Ferdinand I of Spain, created by Pope Julius II
  • Holy League (1538), a short-lived alliance of Christian states arranged by Pope Paul III at the urging of the Republic of Venice
  • Holy League (1571), arranged by Pope Pius V and included almost all the major Catholic maritime states in the Mediterranean
  • Holy League (1684), started by Pope Innocent XI, composed of the Holy Roman Empire, Poland-Lithuania and the Venetian Republic
  • Holy League (1717), an ad hoc coalition organised by the Pope allying the Papal States to Portugal, Venice and Malta against the Ottoman Empire and which resulted in the Battle of Matapan
  • One of the Catholic Leagues

Famous quotes containing the words holy and/or league:

    There is no Holy One like the LORD, no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.
    Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 2:2.

    Half a league, half a league,
    Half a league onward,
    All in the valley of Death
    Rode the six hundred.
    “Forward the Light Brigade!
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)