Peace of Münster
1648 treaty between the Netherlands and Spain / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Peace of Münster was a treaty between the Lords States General of the Seven United Netherlands[lower-alpha 1] and the Spanish Crown, the terms of which were agreed on 30 January 1648.[1] The treaty, negotiated in parallel to, but not part of, the Peace of Westphalia, is a key event in Dutch history, marking the formal recognition of the independent Dutch Republic and the end of the Eighty Years' War.
This article is about the 1648 treaty between Spain and the Dutch Republic. For the 1648 treaty between France and the Holy Roman Empire, see Treaty of Münster (October 1648).