ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the cooperation between Vienna and the Holy See changed in the last decade of the Great Turkish War. It looks at how the different sides tried to hinder papal aid to the others, and during this competition how confessional arguments appeared in the Roman theatre of diplomacy. The Habsburg court needed auxiliary forces from the empire, even from the Protestant princes, even though soldiers from Brandenburg and Brunswick had already come to fight against the common enemy in the first years of the Great Turkish War. Irrespective of this victory, imperial diplomats in Rome informed the court that the new pope had showed his willingness to support the war against the Ottomans. The imperial court had difficulties not only with financial issues, but also with military issues. Due to the activity of the French diplomats, some of the auxiliary armies were withdrawn from Hungary.
