WI: Swiss win Battle of Marignano

Swiss win Battle of Marignano

Here's my scenario, the Swiss at the Battle of Marignano are able to swiftly capture the French cannons and drive King Francis I from the field at before his Venetian allies arrive. What is the result? How much longer do the Swiss continue expanding?
 
The Swiss ate their Roesti (even better than Wheatiabx :D

It was the Venetian arrival that won the battle for France but if something delayed Alviano on the march long enough for the Swiss to win before his arrival the victory will still likely be a narrow one like Novara in 1513.

The War of the League of Cambrai most likely continues. Either Swiss luck runs out eventually or, with phyrric victories like Novara and our hypotetical Swiss win at Marignano the war becomes too costly for them to continue and they make peace but with an even more enhanced military reputaion.
 
Agreed, and really it was the reformation that stopped the Swiss expanding by destroying cooperation between the cantons. I can't see Maximilian keeping the throne of Milan long term, but Switzerland might be able to snag the Valley of the Ossala and a couple of other settlements around the lakes in the peace treaties.
 
Agreed, and really it was the reformation that stopped the Swiss expanding by destroying cooperation between the cantons.

It's true that it would be very dangerous for Switzerland to join any conflict that has a religious connotation. They were smart enough to avoid that, and consistently so for centuries. This is quite an achievement; I find very remarkable that Switzerland hadn't disintegrated due to a religious conflict by 1648.

Nevertheless, there is a lot of room for active roles in conflicts between parties of the same creed - as with France and Northern Italian states.

I also have in mind that it was this turn of the Italian Wars that inspired Switzerland to strict neutrality - just as the thread starter seems to imply. However, I'm not aware of many arguments that would indicate in favor or against - I just refer to the "standard interpretation" (could find an actual literature reference). Perhaps this is one the items which is taught differently in different countries?
 
Another potential outcome of a Swiss victory: no Concordat of Bologna between the Pope and François I of France. That gave him a level of control over the church in France that most other Catholic monarchs did not have. Without that control, he may be more receptive to the Reformation.
 
It's true that it would be very dangerous for Switzerland to join any conflict that has a religious connotation. They were smart enough to avoid that, and consistently so for centuries. This is quite an achievement; I find very remarkable that Switzerland hadn't disintegrated due to a religious conflict by 1648.

Nevertheless, there is a lot of room for active roles in conflicts between parties of the same creed - as with France and Northern Italian states.

I also have in mind that it was this turn of the Italian Wars that inspired Switzerland to strict neutrality - just as the thread starter seems to imply. However, I'm not aware of many arguments that would indicate in favor or against - I just refer to the "standard interpretation" (could find an actual literature reference). Perhaps this is one the items which is taught differently in different countries?

Well, Marignano was before the Reformation, but there had been pauses of a couple of decades or more after a defeat before. However, by the 1530s, the reformation was tearing Switzerland in two over religion, and destroyed cooperation between the Protestant and Catholic cantons to the extent that the Three Leagues was invaded multiple times during the 30 years war and was essentially abandoned to her fate by the rest of the Confederation that were supposed to protect her. Really things stayed that way until after the Sonderbund War in the 1850s.
 
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