A 1647 truce briefly sidelined Bavaria and shifted the tide of the Thirty Years' War
Exhausted by decades of brutal warfare, Bavaria broke ranks with the Holy Roman Empire in 1647 to sign a desperate neutrality pact that fundamentally shifted the power balance of Europe.
The signing of the Truce of Ulm on March 14, 1647, marked a pivotal moment in the Thirty Years' War. Facing total devastation from French and Swedish invasions, Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria chose to abandon his alliance with the Holy Roman Emperor.
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