Siege of Lleida (1644)

1644 siege during the Reapers' War

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Siege of Lleida (1644)

Part of Reapers' War and
the Franco-Spanish War (1635–59)

Contemporary view of the citadel by Sébastien Pontault de Beaulieu
| Date| May – 30 July 1644

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Location|

Lleida, Principality of Catalonia

Result|  Spanish victory
Belligerents
France
Principality of Catalonia|  Spain
Commanders and leaders
Philippe de La Mothe Josep Margarit|  Felipe da Silva
Francisco de Orozco

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Reapers' War

* Cambrils
* Martorell
* Montjuïc
* 1st Tarragona
* 2nd Tarragona
* Montmeló
* Perpignan
* 1st Barcelona
* 1st Lleida
* 3rd Tarragona
* 2nd Lleida
* Montblanc
* 2nd Barcelona

Part of the Franco-Spanish War (1635–59)

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Franco-Spanish War
(1635–1659)

Flanders and Northern France

* Les Avins
* Leuven
* Le Catelet
* La Capelle
* Somme
* 1st Corbie
* 1st Landrecies
* 1st Saint Omer
* 1st Thionville
* Charlemont
* 1st Arras
* Aire-sur-la-Lys
* La Marfée
* Honnecourt
* Rocroi
* 2nd Thionville
* 1st Gravelines
* Béthune
* 2nd Saint Omer
* 1st Lens
* Bergues
* 1st Mardyck
* Furnes
* 1st Dunkirk
* Armentières
* Nieuwpoort
* Commines
* 2nd Landrecies
* Diksmuide
* Ypres
* 2nd Lens
* Rethel [zh]
* Mouzon
* 2nd Arras
* 3rd Landrecies
* Valenciennes
* 2nd Mardyck
* 2nd Dunkirk
* The Dunes
* 2nd Gravelines
* Bergues

Northern Spain and Southern France

* Leucate
* Fuenterrabía
* 1st Salses
* Ille-sur-Têt
* Montjuïc
* 1st Tarragona
* Almenar
* Montmeló
* La Granada
* Monzón
* Collioure
* 1st Tortosa
* Perpignan
* 1st Roses
* 2nd Salses
* 1st Lleida
* Miravet
* Monzón
* 2nd Lleida
* 4th Tarragona
* 2nd Roses
* San Lorenzo de Mongay
* Balaguer
* 3rd Lleida
* 4th Lleida
* 2nd Tortosa
* Montblanc
* 3rd Tortosa
* 2nd Barcelona
* Castelló d'Empúries
* Girona
* Villefranche-de-Conflent
* Cadaqués
* Solsona
* Berga
* Castellfollit
* Camprodon [ca]

Italy

* 1st Valenza
* Morbegno
* Tornavento
* Marbegno
* Breme
* Vercelli
* Chieri
* Casale [zh]
* Turin
* 2nd Valenza
* 1st Cremona
* Proh
* Naples
* 2nd Cremona
* Siege of Pavia (1655) [it]
* 3rd Valenza
* Siege of Alessandria (1657) [it]

France hinterland

* The Fronde

Franche-Comté and Germany

* Dole
* Martignat
* Savigny
* Arbent
* Cornod
* Saint-Amour
* Sainte-Agnès
* Lons-le-Saunier
* Bletterans
* 1st Poligny
* 2nd Poligny
* Pontarlier
* Jonvelle
* Maynal
* Tuttlingen

Caribbean

* Tortuga
* Fort Rocher

Naval battles

* 1st Lérins Islands
* Sardinia
* 2nd Lérins Islands
* 3rd Lérins Islands
* Genoa
* Getaria
* Laredo · Santoña
* Île de Ré
* Cádiz
* 2nd Tarragona
* 3rd Tarragona
* 1st Barcelona
* Cartagena
* Orbetello
* Castellammare
* Piombino · Porto Longone
* Cambrils
* Formentera
* Sant Feliu
* Bordeaux
* 3rd Barcelona

Siege of Lleida took place between May – 30 July 1644 during the Reapers' War when a Spanish force under Felipe da Silva besieged and attacked the Franco-Catalan garrison of Lleida—after intense fighting the city finally surrendered on 30 July. Located between Aragon and Catalonia, once captured, the city's citadel served to support the Spanish troops' offensive eastwards towards Barcelona.[1]

Philippe de La Mothe-Houdancourt, who failed to lift the Spanish siege was replaced by Henri de Lorraine, count of Harcourt. The Spanish took Balaguer in September and Agramunt in October. After the conquest of Roses, the frontline stabilized for a few years, until the Spanish Siege of Barcelona (1651).

Once the terms of surrender had been signed, King Philip IV, who had been on the scene since the early days of the siege, having the reviewed the troops stationed there on May 2, marched through the city on August 8.[2]

## Velázquez's Portrait of Philip IV

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During the siege, King Philip sat for Diego Velazquez on three occasions at a makeshift studio in the nearby town of Fraga.[2]

## See also

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* Battles and sieges of Lleida

## References

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1. ^ Duffy, Christopher (2013). Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660, pp. 127. Taylor & Francis. Google Books. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
2. ^ a b "The King at War: Velázquez's Portrait of Philip IV: Chronology and Map". The Frick Collection. Retrieved 4 March 2025.

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