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Encyclopedia > Wars of Kappel

The wars of Kappel (Kappelerkriege) were two armed conflicts fought near Kappel am Albis between the Protestant and the Catholic cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy during the reformation in Switzerland. Kappel am Albis (47°13′40″ N 8°31′34″ E) is a small municipality (population 891 as of 2003) in the Affoltern district of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ... 1550 illustration for the Sempacherbrief of 1393, one of the major alliance contracts of the Old Swiss Confederacy The Old Swiss Confederacy was the precursor of modern-day Switzerland. ... The Protestant Reformation in Switzerland was promoted initially by Huldrych Zwingli, who gained the support of the magistrate and population of Zürich in the 1520s. ...

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The expenses of the war to the amount of five million francs were imposed on the defeated cantons, the result of which was their economic impairment.
This resulted in the two wars of Kappel (1528-31), which ended in the victory of the Catholic districts by the battle near Kappel in 1531, in which Zwingli was killed.
This latter war ended in the victory of the Protestant districts, and it was followed by a new partition of the common lordships in favor of the conquerors, as well as by the granting of complete parity to the Protestant inhabitants of the subject lands.
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