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Also Known As Christoffer, greve af Oldenburg • Christoph, Graf von Oldenburg
Born c.1504
Died August 4, 1566 • Oldenburg
Role In Count’s War
Christian III
Christian III
king of Denmark and Norway
Friis, detail from an oil painting by Jakob Binck, 1551
Johan Friis
Danish statesman
Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
Greek historian
Cid, the
El Cid
Castilian military leader
Yevgeny Prigozhin during the Russia-Ukraine War
Yevgeny Prigozhin
Russian oligarch
Ernst, count von Mansfeld
German general
Pedro Navarro, count de Olivetto
Spanish military engineer and general
Frederick Herman, duke of Schomberg
German soldier
Jean III de Grailly, lord de Buch
French soldier
Sir John Hawkwood
Anglo-Italian mercenary
Albert II Alcibiades, detail from a portrait by an unknown artist
Albert II Alcibiades
margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
Sir John Fastolf
English military officer
Charidemus
Greek mercenary
Hans Waldmann
Hans Waldmann
Swiss leader
Johan Rantzau
military leader
Roger de Flor
Sicilian mercenary
Chabrias
Greek mercenary
Wilhelm, baron von Knyphausen
German general
Olaf Poulsen
Danish actor
Emil Poulsen
Danish actor