La estrategia diplomática de Felipe II frente a la Tercera Elección Libre en La República Polaco-Lituana, 1586-1589

Abstract

The time of first free elections in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1572-1589) was crucial because of internal political changes and intensification of international relations. Spanish diplomatic missions in Wien due to appoint a Habsburg candidate on a Commonwealth throne are known. However the analysis of the diplomatic documentations shows that imperial court was not the only place where Spanish diplomacy was struggling to achieve its aim. The diplomacy of Philip II was deprived of any tools of diplomatic actions in so called polish business, therefore they tried to have an effect wherever they could, in Wien as well as in Rome. This investigation indicate the necessity of seeing Polish-Spanish relations in the international, instead of bilateral context.