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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
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Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
Greek historian
Cid, the
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Yevgeny Prigozhin during the Russia-Ukraine War
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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
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Charidemus
Greek mercenary
Hans Waldmann
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Johan Rantzau
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Roger de Flor
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Chabrias
Greek mercenary
Wilhelm, baron von Knyphausen
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Emil Poulsen
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