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Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. On the other hand, the Sack of Rome further exacerbated religious hatred and antagonism between Catholics and Lutherans. The Emperor denied responsibility for the sack and came to terms again with Clement VII. The subsequent loss of the League army during the Siege of Naples secured a victory in the War of the League of Cognac for Charles V. Rome's population had dropped from 55,000 to 10,000 due to the atrocities, famine, an outbreak of plague and flight from the city. It was not until February 1528 that the spread of a plague and the approach of the League forces under Odet de Foix forced the army to withdraw towards Naples from the city. Clement VII took refuge in Castel Sant'Angelo after the Swiss Guard were annihilated in a delaying rearguard action he remained there until a ransom was paid to the pillagers.īenvenuto Cellini, eyewitness to the events, described the sack in his works. Despite not being ordered to storm the city, with Charles V intending to only use the threat of military action to make Pope Clement VII come to his terms, a largely unpaid Imperial army formed by 14,000 Germans, many of them Lutheran, 6,000 Spaniards and some Italian contingents occupied the scarcely defended Rome and began looting, slaying and holding citizens for ransom in excess without any restraint. The Sack of Rome, then part of the Papal States, followed the capture of the city on by the mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor during the War of the League of Cognac.
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