The “Orleans Conspiracy”. New documents of a Polish-Lithuanian plot during the Thirty Years War
Abstract
In June 1626, the Spanish authorities of the Low Countries intercepted a series of letters whose destination was Poland-Lithuania. This revealed the “Conspiracy of Orleans”, a plot orchestrated by Krzysztof Radziwiłł, one of the most powerful nobles in Lithuania who, with the support of the Protestant forces of northern Europe, tried to introduce the candidacy of Gastón de Orleans in the Next royal election in Poland. In this work we describe the details of the plot, totally unknown by Hispanic historiography - despite the role played by the Brussels court - and we present the two main documents that unveiled it.
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