Signing of the Treaty of Noyon

Background. The War of the League of Cambrai was fought from December 1508 to December 1516. In January 1516, Ferdinand II of Aragon died, and his grandson Charles succeeded him as sovereign of the Spanish and southern Italian realms. Under Francis I, France and Venice had regained lost territories in a campaign culminating in the Battle of Marignano in 1515.

Terms and Consequences. The Treaty of Noyon was concluded between the kings of France and Spain in August 1516. It essentially returned the map of Italy to the status quo of 1508 and removed Spain from the war. The peace lasted only four years; the growing rivalry between the Valois and Habsburg houses, and Charles V's election as Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, led to the Italian War of 1521–26.