Peace of Münster

Peace of Münster
Ratifying the Peace of Münster
ContextEnd of the Eighty Years' War
Signed30 January 1648
LocationMünster, Germany
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The Peace of Münster, signed on 30 January 1648, was a treaty between Philip IV of Spain and the Lords States General of the Dutch Republic. Negotiated in parallel to, but not part of, the Peace of Westphalia, under its terms Spain formally recognised the independent Dutch Republic, and ended the Eighty Years' War.