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Born April 17, 1573 • Munich • Bavaria
Died September 27, 1651 (aged 78) • Ingolstadt • Bavaria
House / Dynasty House of Wittelsbach
Role In Battle of White Mountain • Thirty Years’ War
Tilly, detail from an engraving by G. Kölez, 1631
Johann Tserclaes, count von Tilly
Bavarian general
Maximilian I
Maximilian I
king of Bavaria
Maximilian II
Maximilian II
king of Bavaria
Maximilian II Emanuel, engraving by Karl Gustav Amling, 1682
Maximilian II Emanuel
elector of Bavaria
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
Montgelas de Garnerin, detail from an engraving by E.C. Hess, 1816
Maximilian Joseph, count von Montgelas de Garnerin
Bavarian statesman
Pappenheim, Gottfried Heinrich, count zu
Gottfried Heinrich, count zu Pappenheim
German officer
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Gustav Adolphus
Gustavus Adolphus
king of Sweden
Axel, Count Oxenstierna
chancellor of Sweden
Christian IV
Christian IV
king of Denmark and Norway
Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimental, count-duke de Olivares
prime minister of Spain
Louis XIII
Louis XIII
king of France
Gábor Bethlen
Gábor Bethlen
king of Hungary
Mercy, Franz, Freiherr von
Franz, baron von Mercy
Austrian field marshal
Father Joseph, engraving by an unknown artist after a portrait by Michel L'Asne
Father Joseph
French mystic and religious reformer
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck
German chancellor and prime minister
Charles V
Charles V
Holy Roman emperor
Frederick II
Frederick II
Holy Roman emperor