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Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein (pronunciation ⓘ; 24 September 1583 – 25 February 1634), also von Waldstein (Czech: Albrecht Václav Eusebius z Valdštejna), was a Bohemian military leader and statesman who fought on the Catholic side during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648).
In the demonology of the Thirty Years War, Albrecht von Wallenstein—as he is usually called—holds a place hors concours. There came a stage in that war when all the Holy Roman Empire, from its Electors down to the humblest peasants, Protestants and Catholics alike, feared and hated him so much that the Diet of Regensburg, in 1630, made ...
Oct 6, 2019 · Updated on October 06, 2019. Born at Heømanice, Bohemia on September 24, 1583, Albrecht von Wallenstein was the son of a minor noble family. Initially raised as a Protestant by his parents, he was sent to a Jesuit school in Olmütz by his uncle after their death.
Albrecht von Wallenstein was a Bohemian soldier and statesman, commanding general of the armies of the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II during the Thirty Years’ War. His alienation from the emperor and his political-military conspiracies led to his assassination.
Jun 7, 2011 · One of the greatest generals of the Thirty Years War was Albrecht von Wallenstein. His fame as a military strategist and financial genius is matched only by his popular reputation as an extraordinarily ambitious, greedy, self-serving, arrogant, harsh and unscrupulous man, unmoved by true religious motivations and guided by astrological ...
- Tryntje Helfferich
- 2011
Fear of losing the territories on the Elbe kept Wallenstein from action for a long time, and when he finally attacked Mansfeld he was unsuccessful and lost large numbers of his men. He was able, though, to justify himself before the emperor in November, 1626, by proving that a much larger army was necessary.
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Meanwhile, the Emperor became aware of Wallenstein’s treachery and engineered his removal by a patent of high treason published in Prague on February 18, 1634. Wallenstein fled, but was murdered on February 25, probably by an official loyal to the Emperor.
