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Wallenstein was born on 24 September 1583 in Heřmanice, Bohemia, [6] which is the easternmost and largest region in what was then the Holy Roman Empire, in the present-day Czech Republic, into a poor Protestant Wallenstein branch of the Waldstein family [b] who owned Heřmanice Castle and seven surrounding villages.
- 1604–1634
- Mnichovo Hradiště, Bohemia
Apr 15, 2024 · Albrecht von Wallenstein (born September 24 [September 14, Old Style], 1583, Heřmanice, Bohemia [now in Czech Republic]—died February 25, 1634, Eger [now Cheb]) 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 ...
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Bohemia-born Duke Albrecht von Wallenstein at the height of his power. With another victory gilding his recruitment pitch, Wallenstein built up his army to 100,000 men—Europe’s largest—yet his men were still mercenaries, loyal only to their paymaster, threatening friend and foe alike.
He quartered his army in Habsburg territory (Bohemia, Silesia, Austria); he did not move when the Swedes, having overrun Alsace, Franconia, Swabia, and Bavaria, crowned their success with the capture of the key fortress of Regensburg (November 1633); and he refused to support a Spanish force in southwestern Germany.
Oct 6, 2019 · While he lived on his estates, the war went badly for the emperor as the Swedes crushed Tilly at the Battle of Breitenfeld in 1631. The following April, Tilly was defeated at killed at Rain. With the Swedes in Munich and occupying Bohemia, Ferdinand recalled von Wallenstein.
May 18, 2018 · Albrecht von Wallenstein was born on Sept. 24, 1583, at Hermanitz in Bohemia of noble family. Reared in the Utraquist (Protestant) faith, he converted to Catholicism before 1606 and attached himself to the court of the Hapsburg archduke (later emperor) Matthias, with whom he shared a strong interest in astrology.
Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, duke von Friedland, later Duke von Mecklenburg, (born Sept. 24, 1583, Heřmanice, Bohemia—died Feb. 25, 1634, Eger), Austrian general. A noble of Bohemia, he served with the future Habsburg emperor Ferdinand II in the campaign against Venice in 1617.
