Electors of Saxony Holy Roman Emperors Building Literature Theater Liturgies Hymnals Monuments Calendrical commemoration The wars of Kappel (Kappelerkriege) is a collective term for two armed conflicts fought near Kappel am Albis between the Catholic and the Protestant cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy during the Reformation in Switzerland.
The first conflict saw the establishment of the Christian Union (formed of cantons Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, and Zug) in order to stop the spread of Protestantism throughout Switzerland.
[1] The union was a rejection of Swiss leader Ulrich Zwingli's attempts at forced reformation.
However, the winning diplomacy of the Union forced the Protestants to not cross the border, postponing the conflict until 1531.
When they fought the Musso War against the Duchy of Milan, the member states of the Catholic Union refused to provide aid.