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Also Known As Peter Ernst, count von Mansfeld
Born 1580 • Luxembourg • Luxembourg
Died November 29, 1626 (aged 46) • near Sarajevo • Bosnia and Herzegovina
Role In Battle of Dessau • Thirty Years’ War
Frederick Herman, duke of Schomberg
German soldier
Albrecht von Wallenstein
Albrecht von Wallenstein
Bohemian military commander
Tilly, detail from an engraving by G. Kölez, 1631
Johann Tserclaes, count von Tilly
Bavarian general
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.
Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar
duke of Saxe-Weimar
Albert II Alcibiades, detail from a portrait by an unknown artist
Albert II Alcibiades
margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
Christian of Anhalt
Protestant prince
Pappenheim, Gottfried Heinrich, count zu
Gottfried Heinrich, count zu Pappenheim
German officer
Melchior, Graf von Gleichen und Hatzfeldt
German field marshal
Christian of Brunswick
German military commander
Hans von Arnim, detail from an engraving by Martin Bernigeroth after an oil painting by an unknown artist
Hans Georg von Arnim
German soldier and statesman
Wilhelm, baron von Knyphausen
German general
Gustav Adolphus
Gustavus Adolphus
king of Sweden
Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
Greek historian
Turenne, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de
Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne
French military leader
Cid, the
El Cid
Castilian military leader
Christian IV
Christian IV
king of Denmark and Norway
Pedro Navarro, count de Olivetto
Spanish military engineer and general
Montecuccoli, portrait by an unknown artist, 1670; in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
Raimondo Montecuccoli
Austrian field marshal
Piccolomini-Pieri, Ottavio, duca d'Amalfi
Ottavio Piccolomini-Pieri, duca d’Amalfi
Austrian general