Siege of Frankenthal

Siege of Frankenthal
	Part of the Palatinate phase of the Thirty Years' War
	; 1625 engraving of the siege
Date	1621 — March 20, 1623
Location	Frankenthal, Electorate of Palatinate; (present-day Germany)49°31′59.99″N 8°21′0.00″E / 49.5333306°N 8.3500000°E
Result	Imperial-Spanish victory
Belligerents
Electoral Palatinate; Kingdom of England	Holy Roman Empire; Spain
Commanders and leaders
King James I; John Burroughs	Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
	class=notpageimage\| Location within Rhineland-Palatinate Siege of Frankenthal (Germany)

The siege of Frankenthal was a siege of the Palatinate campaign during the Thirty Years' War. A Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba besieged the Palatinate fortified city of Frankenthal and its mostly English garrison commanded by John Burroughs. The siege lasted from 1621 to March 20, 1623, when King James I ordered the city to surrender.^[2]

^ Polišenský/Snider. War and society in Europe (1618-1648)
^ Wilson, Peter H. "The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy". Harvard University Press, 2011, p. 340.