Founded at a namesake Thuringian town in 1530, for 10 points, name this group of German protestant states during the Reformation who formed an alliance modeled after the Swabian League.
The chief English ambassadors to this entity were Christopher Mont, Edward Foxe, and Nicholas Heath. William Paget and Robert Barnes talked with this group about a common opposition to the Hapsburgs, and considered paying one hundred thousand crowns in return for English membership in this entity. Led by Philip of Hesse and and John Frederick of Saxtony, it eventually lost at Mulhberg to Spanish soldiers led by Charles V. Thomas Cromwell encouraged Henry VIII to support this entity, leading the king to marry Anne of Cleves. Founded at a namesake Thuringian town in 1530, for 10 points, name this group of German protestant states during the Reformation who formed an alliance modeled after the Swabian League.
The chief English ambassadors to this entity were Christopher Mont, Edward Foxe, and Nicholas Heath.
{Schmalkaldic} League