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Pompeius Planta

Spanish politician

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  • Jenatsch, detail from a portrait by an unknown artist, 1636; in a private collection
    In Georg Jenatsch

    …head of the Spanish party, Pompeius Planta, and had to flee abroad. In 1624 he achieved a French-Grisons alliance, which led to the expulsion of the Spaniards and Austrians from the Grisons. After the Franco-Spanish Treaty of Mozon (1626), however, the Valtellina was virtually abandoned to Spain; Jenatsch took service…

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