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Peter Ernst von Mansfeld
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Peter Ernst von Mansfeld , 1580?-1626, military commander...beginning of the Thirty Years War, Mansfeld and his army were loaned by his employer...before the battle of the White Mt., Mansfeld refused further service. A promise...
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Thirty Years War
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...severe repression began in Bohemia. The Palatinate Period Mansfeld and Christian of Brunswick led the revolutionary forces in...of Wallenstein , who gathered an effective army and defeated Mansfeld at Dessau (1626). A little later the Danish king was soundly...
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Johannes Tserklaes Tilly, count of
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the war, centering about the Palatinate, Tilly was chief commander against Ernst von Mansfeld , Christian of Brunswick , and others. He lost to Mansfeld (Apr., 1622), but won at Wimpfen (May) and Höchst (June) and also at...
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Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Danish phase of the war. Wallenstein in 1626 defeated Ernst von Mansfeld at the Dessau bridgehead, and some of his men helped Tilly...Lutter. The next year Wallenstein destroyed the remnants of Mansfeld's army and later defeated Christian IV's forces. Now at...
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Saxony
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...borders were a plethora of independent territories. These included the domains of the counts of Henneberg, Schwarzburg, and Mansfeld, the city of Erfurt, imperial abbeys, powerful monasteries, and wealthy bishoprics. Indeed, Lutheran visitation committees...
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Luther, Martin
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...as the owner of several small mines, to become a small-scale businessman. In 1490 Martin was sent to the Latin school at Mansfeld, in 1497 to Magdeburg, and in 1498 to Eisenach. His early education was typical of late-fifteenth-century practice...
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Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar , 1604-39, Protestant general in the Thirty Years War , duke of Weimar. Under Ernst von Mansfeld and the margrave of Baden, Bernhard fought against the imperial forces in defense (1622) of the Palatinate. He served...
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Palatinate
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Thirty Years War, in which the Palatinate was ravaged both by the imperial forces under Tilly and by the Protestant army under Mansfeld. The Upper Palatinate and the electoral vote were taken from Frederick and transferred to Bavaria, but at the Peace of Westphalia...
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Schmalkaldic War (1546–1547)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...military commanders Elector John Frederick of Saxony and Landgrave Philip of Hesse; the northern princes of Anhalt-Bernburg and Mansfeld-Hinterort; the northern cities of L ü beck, Magdeburg, and Bremen; and the southern cities of Strasbourg, Ulm...
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Tilly, Johann Tserclaes of (1559–1632)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...the Old Reich. He won the Battle of White Mountain (at Prague, 8 November 1620), had several encounters with Ernst of Mansfeld (he lost at Wiesloch/Mingolsheim, 27 April 1622, but won at Wimpfen, 6 May 1622), crushed the army of Christian of...
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