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Born February 1559 • Netherlands
Died April 30, 1632 (aged 73) • Ingolstadt • Germany
Role In Battle of Breitenfeld • Battle of White Mountain • Sack of Magdeburg • Thirty Years’ War

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king of Sweden
Maximilian I
duke of Bavaria
Mercy, Franz, Freiherr von
Franz, baron von Mercy
Austrian field marshal
Melchior, Graf von Gleichen und Hatzfeldt
German field marshal
Albrecht von Wallenstein
Albrecht von Wallenstein
Bohemian military commander
Montecuccoli, portrait by an unknown artist, 1670; in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
Raimondo Montecuccoli
Austrian field marshal
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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
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Matthias Gallas, count von Campo
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Charles V
Charles V
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Otto IV
Otto IV
Holy Roman emperor
Sigismund
Sigismund
Holy Roman emperor
Ernst, count von Mansfeld
German general
Frederick Herman, duke of Schomberg
German soldier
Frederick V, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, c. 1620; in the Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer, Ger.
Frederick V
elector Palatine of the Rhine
Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar.
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duke of Saxe-Weimar
Frundsberg, Georg von
Georg von Frundsberg
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