The Swabian League was established as a defensive alliance of princes, prelates, and Imperial cities to maintain the peace within the territory of Southern Germany. In 1525 the League faced an existential threat in the form of an attempt by the exiled Duke Ulrich of Württemberg to retake his territory and a series of localised peasant uprisings which united into a movement for political reform. The League was forced to mobilise a mercenary armyat a time of financial crisis and a shortage of Landsknechts, many of whom were fighting in the Italian Wars. This book presents a detailed inside account of the different components and internal organisation of the League army. It focuses on two campaigns led by its supreme commander, Georg Truchsess von Waldburg, to maintain discipline during an intensive six-month campaign to thwart the Duke of Württemberg and smash the peasant rebellion whilst attempting to appease his political overlords within the League.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• List of illustrations, maps, tables and boxes
• Chronology
• Preface
• Part I: The Organisation of the League Army
  • 1.1 The Swabian League: Origins
    • Military Organisation of the League
  • 1.2 The Command Structure within the League Army
  • 1.3 The League Horse
  • 1.4 The League Infantry
    • Recruitment Issues
    • The Muster
  • 1.5 The League Ordnance
  • 1.6 The Baggage Train
  • 1.7 The League’s Communications
• Part II: The Campaigns
  • 2.1 The League’s Campaign against Duke Ulrich of Württemberg
  • 2.2 The Campaign against the Peasants
    • Leipheim
    • Baltringen
    • Wurzach
    • The Defeat of the Franconian Bands
    • Leubas
• Afterword
• Appendices
  • I League Contingents and Financial Contributions
  • II Regimental Rates of Pay in Florins (as laid down at the Imperial Diet of Constance 1507)
  • III Company Rates of Pay in Florins (as laid down at the Imperial Diet of Constance 1507)
  • IV The Austrian (Habsburg) contingent of horse in the League Army on the eve of the Battle of Leipheim (3rd April) 1525 (Brackets indicate accompanying men)
• Colour Plate Commentaries
• Bibliography
• Plates