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{{Infobox military conflict | |||
|conflict = Great Confessional War | |||
|partof = [[The Anarchy]] | |||
|image = File:Le Siege de La Rochelle par le Duc d Anjou en 1573.jpg | |||
|image_size = 300px | |||
| | |caption = The siege of a place | ||
|date = May 2nd, 1555 - August 10th, 1575 | |||
|place = Holy Levantine Empire | |||
|result = Holy League victory; Catholicism entrenched in the Holy Levantine Empire, previous tolerance edicts revoked, Protestant landholders banished | |||
|combatant1 = '''Protestant Union''' | |||
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|Holy League victory; Catholicism entrenched in the Holy Levantine Empire, previous tolerance edicts revoked, Protestant landholders banished | |||
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* Gassavelia | * Gassavelia | ||
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* Burgondia | * Burgondia | ||
* Estia | * Estia | ||
|'''Holy League''' in defense of the Holy Levantine Empire | |combatant2 = '''Holy League''' in defense of the Holy Levantine Empire | ||
* Corcra | * Corcra | ||
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* Marialanus | * Marialanus | ||
* Order of the Obsidian Sparrow | * Order of the Obsidian Sparrow | ||
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*King Riordan V | |||
*King Donnchad III † | |||
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King Donnchad III † | *Emperor Leo III | ||
|Emperor Leo III | *Rih Cledwyn Wydd-Màrtainn † | ||
Rih Cledwyn Wydd-Màrtainn † | *Rih Conan Wydd-Màrtainn | ||
Rih Conan Wydd-Màrtainn | |units1 = | ||
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The '''Great Confessional War''' was a sectarian conflict in the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] occurring within the greater context of [[the Anarchy]], though immediately caused by the imperial victory against the [[Kingdom of Angla]] in the [[Nordmontaine War]]. Protestant forces under King Riordan V and King Donnchad III sought to force the empire to permit individual Levantine states to formally adopt restorationism or reformism, and to discriminate against the [[Levantine Catholic Church]]. Imperial forces in turn sought to end the Protestant Reform and to ban Protestantism and reformism. The imperial forces ultimately achieved victory, but only after a lengthy conflict marked by brutal fighting. | |||
Protestant forces scored a series of victories in the first years of the war, particularly once the more competent King Donnchad III took the helm of the [[Protestant Union]]. But the [[Holy League]] regained the advantage in 1565 at the Battle of Drumfree, and following the coronation of Leo III that year, the Holy League rarely found itself on the defense. Imperial forces ultimately achieved a final victory in 1575, and thereafter stripped all Protestant landholders of title, while also undertaking a new inquisition against reformism and restorationism. Leo III rewarded the states of the Holy League, such as Burgundie, with then-vacated former Protestant lands and electorates, and firmly entrenched Catholicism as the official state faith of the empire and predominant social force in Levantia. Protestant leaders only escaped persecution in the newly established Kingdom of Faramount, which was granted independence after betraying the Protestant cause. The empire's intolerant policies prompted a mass exodus of Protestants abroad, a lasting legacy of the conflict. | Protestant forces scored a series of victories in the first years of the war, particularly once the more competent King Donnchad III took the helm of the [[Protestant Union]]. But the [[Holy League]] regained the advantage in 1565 at the Battle of Drumfree, and following the coronation of Leo III that year, the Holy League rarely found itself on the defense. Imperial forces ultimately achieved a final victory in 1575, and thereafter stripped all Protestant landholders of title, while also undertaking a new inquisition against reformism and restorationism. Leo III rewarded the states of the Holy League, such as Burgundie, with then-vacated former Protestant lands and electorates, and firmly entrenched Catholicism as the official state faith of the empire and predominant social force in Levantia. Protestant leaders only escaped persecution in the newly established Kingdom of Faramount, which was granted independence after betraying the Protestant cause. The empire's intolerant policies prompted a mass exodus of Protestants abroad, a lasting legacy of the conflict. | ||