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Also Known As Albrecht Václav Eusebius z Valdštejna • Albrecht Václav Eusebius z Valštejna • Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, Herzog von Friedland, Herzog von Mecklenburg, Fürst von Sagen • Albrecht von Waldstein
Born September 24, 1583 • Czech Republic
Died February 25, 1634 (aged 50) • Cheb • Czech Republic • (Anniversary in 3 days)
Role In Battle of Dessau • Battle of Lützen • Thirty Years’ War

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Gustav Adolphus
Gustavus Adolphus
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Johann Tserclaes, count von Tilly
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Ernst, count von Mansfeld
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Montecuccoli, portrait by an unknown artist, 1670; in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
Raimondo Montecuccoli
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Ottavio Piccolomini-Pieri, duca d’Amalfi
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Ferdinand III, detail from a portrait from the studio of Peter Paul Rubens; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Ferdinand III
Holy Roman emperor
Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar.
Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar
duke of Saxe-Weimar
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Franz, baron von Mercy
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Melchior, Graf von Gleichen und Hatzfeldt
German field marshal
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Matthias Gallas, count von Campo
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Charles V
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Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne
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Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd duke de Alba, oil painting by Sir Antony More, 1549; in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3 duque de Alba
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Christian IV
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Otto IV
Otto IV
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Sigismund
Sigismund
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Frederick Herman, duke of Schomberg
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