List of wars of succession in Europe

This is a list of wars of succession in Europe.

Note: Wars of succession in transcontinental states are mentioned under the continents where their capital city was located.

That means that wars of succession in the Byzantine Empire and Ottoman Empire are found here whenever their capital city was located at Constantinople/Kostantiniyye/Istanbul in East Thrace; for Ottoman wars of succession before 1453, see List of wars of succession § Medieval Asia.

Names of wars that have been given names by historians are capitalised; the others, whose existence has been proven but not yet given a specific name, are provisionally written in lowercase letters (except for the first word, geographical and personal names).

To inherit Holland , Ada quickly married Louis before her father was buried, triggering the Loon War . [ 1 ]
Alexander 's diadochi battled about his political legacy for 46 years.
Fontenoy confirmed the partition of Francia between emperor Louis the Pious 's three sons.
In 1066, William of Normandy managed to enforce his claim to the English throne.
The Sack of Kiev (1169) was part of the 1167–1169 Kievan succession crisis between rival princely clans [ 43 ]
Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople , Eugène Delacroix (1840). The 1204 Sack of Constantinople caused a complex series of related wars of succession in Southeastern Europe and Asia Minor, as many pretenders laid claim to the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire's legacy.
The Battle of Worringen , the decisive confrontation of the War of the Limburg Succession , as shown in a 15th-century Brabantsche Yeesten manuscript
Siege of Orléans . The Hundred Years' War arose when the English king claimed the French throne.
The 1388 Battle of Strietfield secured Lüneburg for the House of Welf .
The Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl (1443) during the Old Zürich War .
The Catholic Monarchs united 'Spain' after the War of the Castilian Succession .
The Jülich Succession became a European war, as the future religious balance of power depended on it.
Klushino 1610 : Polish–Lithuanian hussars defeat Tsarist Russia and capture Moscow in the Time of Troubles and the Dimitriads .
During the War of the Spanish Succession , a European coalition tried to keep Spain out of French hands.
The War of the Austrian Succession grew out to an almost pan-European land war, spreading to colonies in the Americas and India. [ 94 ]
The death of Frederick VII of Denmark was a cause of the Second Schleswig War (1864).
The Third Carlist War (1872–1876).