Reapers' War

Reapers' War
Part of the Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659) and the Thirty Years' War
Battle of Montjuïc (1641) by Pandolfo Reschi
Date 1640–1659 Location Catalonia, eastern Spain, Southern France Result Catalan defeat, Franco-Spanish stalemate, Treaty of the Pyrenees Territorial changes County of Roussillon and the northern half of Cerdanya ceded to France
Belligerents
Principality of Catalonia (Catalan Republic between 1640-1641) Kingdom of France	Habsburg Spain
Commanders and leaders
Pau Claris Francesc de Tamarit Josep Margarit Louis XIII Louis XIV Philippe de La Mothe-Houdancourt Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé	Philip IV Pedro Fajardo Duke of Fernandina Duke of Maqueda Duke of Ciudad Real Marquis of Leganés Andrea Cantelmo Felipe da Silva

The Reapers' War (Catalan: Guerra dels Segadors, Eastern Catalan: [ˈɡɛrə ðəls səɣəˈðos]; Spanish: Guerra de los Segadores, French: Guerre des faucheurs), also known as the Catalan Revolt or Catalan Revolution, was a conflict that affected the Principality of Catalonia between 1640 and 1659, in the context of the Franco-Spanish War of 1635–1659. Being the result of a revolutionary process carried out by Catalan peasantry and institutions, as well as French diplomatic movements, it saw the brief establishment of a Catalan Republic and the clash of Spanish and French armies on Catalan soil over more than a decade.

It had an enduring effect in the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659), which ceded the County of Roussillon and the northern half of the County of Cerdanya to France (see French Cerdagne), splitting these northern Catalan territories off from the Principality of Catalonia, and thereby receding the borders of Spain to the Pyrenees.