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The Welcome to a history of Europe Key Battles, the Battle of Lepanto, Part 3 of 5.

Last week in part 2 I recounted the story of the Mediterranean in the mid-16th century up until the abdication of Emperor Charles V in the year 1556.

As the 1560s arrived, the face of Western Europe was changing fast. On the 21st of September 1558, Charles V died in a monastery in Spain and just eight weeks later, Queen Mary

of England followed him to the grave, to be succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth.

In 1559, the Treaty of Cateur Cambresi was concluded between the French king, Henry II,

and Charles' successor, King Philip II of Spain, ending a decades-long war between France and Habsburgs.

During celebrations of the peace, Henry II was mortally wounded in a jousting tournament. His heir, Francis II, husband of Mary Queen of Scots, died in his turn the year after.

Due to their untimely deaths and religious divisions in their kingdom, France was too preoccupied with its own internal problems

for the rest of the century to participate much in international affairs.

The year 1561 also saw the death of one of Sultan's two surviving sons,

Biazid, leaving the path clear for the succession of his brother, Salaim.

The veteran Ottoman leader was by now willing to his 60s,

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