Treaty of London (1518)

The Treaty of London (Dutch: Verdrag van Londen, French: Traités de Londres, Italian: Trattato di Londra, Spanish: Tratado de Londres) in 1518 was a non-aggression pact between the major European states.

[4] Pope Leo X originally called for a five-year peace while the monarchs of Europe helped him fight back the rising power of the Ottoman Empire, which was encroaching into the Balkans.

[3] Wolsey was very keen on instead making lasting peace and persuaded Henry VIII to avoid war and to take a more diplomatic route in foreign affairs.

The central tenet was that states with an active foreign policy needed to commit to a stance of non-aggression.

[citation needed] Some historians have been skeptical that the signatories of the treaty genuinely intended to comply with the commitments of the treaty, while other historians have argued that there was a genuine sense of Christian unity at the time and a common sense of threat posed by the Ottoman Empire.