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	Ernst von Mansfeld - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mansfeld, however, was soon appointed by Frederick to command his army in Bohemia, and in 1621 he took up his position in the Upper Palatinate, successfully resisting the efforts made by Tilly to dislodge him.
		Mansfeld, however, quickly raised another army, with which he intended to attack the hereditary lands of the house of Austria, and pursued by Wallenstein he pressed forward towards Hungary, where he hoped to accomplish his purpose by the aid of Bethlem Gabor, prince of Transylvania.
		Graf Uetterodt zu Scharfenberg, Ernst Graf zu Mansfeld (Gotha; 1867)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ernst,_Graf_von_Mansfield (733 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld
		Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld, also known as Ernst von Mansfeld or as von Mansfeldt (circa 1580 - 29 November 1626), German soldier, an illegitimate son of Peter Ernst, Fürst von Mansfeld[?], passed his early years in his father's palace at Luxemburg.
		He took Pilsen, but in the summer of 1619 he suffered defeated at Zablati (10 June 1619); after this he offered his services to the emperor Ferdinand II and remained inactive while the titular king of Bohemia, Frederick V, elector palatine of the Rhine, was driven in headlong rout from Prague.
		Mansfeld, however, quickly raised another army, with which he intended to attack the hereditary lands of the house of Austria.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/pe/Peter_Ernst,_Graf_von_Mansfeld (693 words)

	MANSFELD, PETER ERNST VON. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Illegitimate son of a governor for the Hapsburgs in Luxembourg, he rendered distinguished service in the imperial forces in the Netherlands and was legitimized; by 1607 he was styling himself count.
		At the beginning of the Thirty Years War, Mansfeld and his army were loaned by his employer, the duke of Savoy, to Frederick the Winter King, in Bohemia.
		Mansfeld attempted then to cooperate with Gabriel Bethlen but without success.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/ma/Mansfeld.html (183 words)

	Albrecht von Wallenstein
		Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein (or Waldstein, Czech: Valdštejn), September 24, 1583 - February 25, 1634) was a Czech soldier and politician.
		In 1606 he returned to Bohemia, and soon married Lucretia Nikossie von Landeck, a rich elderly widow whose estates in Moravia he inherited after her death in 1614.
		Having beaten Mansfeld at Dessau, Wallenstein cleared Silesia of the remnants of Mansfeld's army in 1627.
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	Johann Graf von Aldringen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johann Reichsgraf von Aldringen (sometimes spelled von Altringer), (1588 – June 22, 1634), Austrian soldier, was born at Diedenhofen (Thionville) in Lorraine.
		He and his constant comrade Matthias Gallas were ennobled on the same day, and in the course of the Italian campaign of 1630 the two officers married the two daughters of Count d'Arco.
		Made field-marshal after the assault of the Alte Veste near Nuremberg, at which he had been second in command under the Herzog von Friedland (with whom he was a great favourite), he was next placed at the head of the corps formed by Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria to support Wallenstein.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johann_Graf_von_Aldringen (488 words)

	Albrecht von Wallenstein
		He occupied at once the Dioceses of Magdeburg and Halberstadt, the richest and most important territories strategically, and secretly sought to secure the election of a son of the emperor as their future bishop.
		Mansfeld, completely defeated but not pursued, gathered new troops and marched through Silesia to join forces with the prince of Transylvania.
		In the mean time during 1627 he drove Mansfeld's troops out of Silesia, united with Tilly for a campaign against Holstein, in which he advanced as far as Jutland and also occupied Mecklenburg.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/w/wallenstein,albrecht_von.html (1683 words)

	Graf > Graf Eberstein > Biography
		A fairly important nobleman of the Seventeenth century, Ernst Albrecht von Eberstein was born on 6 June, 1605 in Gehofen, Sachsen, Prussia, and died on 9 June, 1676 in Neuhaus, Sachsen, Prussia.
		von Lauterbach, governor of Deventer, to the Netherlands and Bohemia.
		As an ally of Friedrich IV, von Lauterbach participated in the Battle of the White Hills, and also served under Earls von Mansfeld and zu Stolberg.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Mansfeld,
		Mansfeld, Peter Ernst von MANSFELD, PETER ERNST VON [Mansfeld, Peter Ernst von], 1580?-1626, military commander in the Thirty Years War.
		Under Ernst von Mansfeld and the margrave of Baden, Bernhard fought against the imperial forces in defense (1622) of the Palatinate.
		Wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von WALLENSTEIN, ALBRECHT WENZEL EUSEBIUS VON [Wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von], 1583-1634, imperial general in the Thirty Years War, b.
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	The Thirty Years War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The army was commanded by the mercenary, Ernst von Mansfeld.
		Mansfeld, given an army of 12,000 by James I of England, went to relieve the siege of Breda.
		Mansfeld tried to attack on 25 April 1626 over the bridge at Dessau, but was thrown back with heavy losses.
	www.idbsu.edu /courses/reformation/germany/30yw.shtml (5255 words)

	MANSFELD - Online Information article about MANSFELD
		One of its earliest members was Hoyer von Mansfeld (d.
		Saxons; he fought for Henry at Warnstadt and was killed in his service at Welfesholz.
		Des Grafen Ernst von Mansfeld letzte See also:
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	Mansfeld (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mansfeld Castle, a Christian youth education meeting place in the town Mansfeld
		Ernst von Mansfeld, general of the Thirty Years War
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mansfeld_(disambiguation) (90 words)

	AllRefer.com - Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		In 1625, Wallenstein raised a large army for Ferdinand II and became chief imperial general, cooperating with the general of the Catholic League, Count Tilly, in the Danish phase of the war.
		Wallenstein in 1626 defeated Ernst von Mansfeld at the Dessau bridgehead, and some of his men helped Tilly to defeat the Danish king Christian IV at Lutter.
		Now at the height of his wealth and power, Wallenstein, having driven the dukes of Mecklenburg from their lands, was granted that duchy as a hereditary fief from the Holy Roman emperor.
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	Johann Ernst Mansfeldt ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Johann Ernst Mansfeld, Portrait of Peter Leopold, Archduke of Austria, 1764
		Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Portrait of Dichter Sch., 1927
		Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Cows in the Moonlight, 1918
	www.wwar.com /masters/m/mansfeldt-johann_ernst.html (358 words)

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	Peter Ernst von Mansfeld - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Cornelius, Peter von (1783-1867), German painter, who was a leader of the Nazarene movement.
		During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Virgin Islands flourished as a center for the slave trade and as a producer of sugar.
		Dohnányi, Ernst von (1877-1960), Hungarian composer, pianist, and conductor, born in Pressburg (now Bratislava, Slovakia).
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	Sydnam Poyntz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sydnam Poyntz, Col.-Gen., an English soldier, served in the Thirty Years' War under Ernst von Mansfeld before commanding Parliamentary forces in the English Civil War.
		Poyntz was born circa 1608 to a minor gentry family in Surrey.
		He ran away from an apprenticeship to a London tradesman and became a mercenary, fighting for the Imperial Spanish army under Mansfeld during the Thirty Years' War and rising to the rank of Major General.
	en.wikipedia.org /?title=Sydnam_Poyntz (214 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ferdinand II
		On 22 June, 1619, the Imperial General Buquoy repulsed from Vienna the besieging General Thurn; Mansfeld was crushed at Budweis, and on 8 November, 1620, the fate of Bohemia and of Frederick V was decided by the Battle of the White Mountain, near Prague.
		However, Albrecht von Waldstein (usually known as Wallenstein), a Bohemian nobleman whom Ferdinand had a short time previously raised to the dignity of prince, offered to raise an army of 40,000 men at his own expense.
		His offer was accepted, and soon Wallenstein and Tilly repeatedly vanquished the Danes, Ernst von Mansfeld and Christian of Brunswick, the leaders of the Protestant forces.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06040a.htm (1586 words)

	Wolf Song of Alaska: Wolves in War Ancient and Modern / 1600 to 1900
		Christian of Denmark, Christian of Brunswick and General Ernst von Mansfeld.
		Christian of Brunswick, with an army composed mainly of ill-armed peasants, aimed to reach Hesse, enroll the Landgrave in the Protestant cause and attack the Hapsburg army.
		General von Mansfeld fared no better, although he led an experienced, well-equipped army.
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	Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein
		The defeat of the Protestant commander, Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld, near Dessau was the new army's first success (April 25, 1626), but Wallenstein was reproached for having allowed Mansfeld to escape and tendered his resignation.
		He was instrumental in forcing the Peace of Pressburg (Pozsony, December 1626) on the Hungarian leader Gábor Bethlen, ejected the Danes from Silesia (July 1627), and, in conjunction with the Bavarian general Johann Tserclaes, Graf von Tilly, conquered Mecklenburg, Holstein, Schleswig, and the whole of continental Denmark.
		Wallenstein's brother-in-law Adam Trcka and the field marshals Christian von Ilow and Heinrich Holk were the only generals prepared to follow Wallenstein through thick and thin, but Holk died of the plague in September 1633.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/riley/787/30/Imperial/Wallenstein.html (1451 words)

	The Ultimate Military Entrepreneur
		War is often viewed as an affair of men fighting for the political causes of their nations.
		The side they fought on usually did not matter, as long as the gold was guaranteed, and they had no compunction about changing sides in the midst of a conflict, or even switching back and forth.
		Most famous of all, though, was Count Albrecht von Wallenstein, who through the private military business became the wealthiest man in all of Europe.
	www.brookings.edu /views/articles/fellows/singer20030301.htm (320 words)

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		MANSFELD, the name of an old and illustrious German family which took its name from Mansfeld in Saxony, where it was seated from the 11th to the 18th century.
		Still more famous was Albert, count of Mansfeld (148o-156o), an intimate friend of Luther and one of the earliest and staunchest supporters of the Reformation.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=42999 (135 words)

	Battle of Dessau, 25 April 1626 (Germany)
		Battle in Thirty Years War between a protestant army under Ernst von Mansfeld and the Imperial army under Albrecht von Wallenstein.
		The reputation of both generals was at stake - Mansfeld after previous failures, Wallenstein as an inexperienced commander.
		Mansfeld launched an attack on the bridge without taking account of the strength of the fortifications, and was beaten back with heavy loses, and left the field with only 8,000 of the 12,000 men he had started the day with.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/battles_dessau.html (185 words)

	AllRefer.com - Peter Ernst von Mansfeld (Benelux History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Peter Ernst von Mansfeld (Benelux History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		Peter Ernst von Mansfeld[pA´tur ernst fun mAns´felt] Pronunciation Key, 1580?–1626, military commander in the Thirty Years War.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Mansfeld.html (309 words)

	Battle of Dessau Bridge - Military Event - German Archive: With the entrance of King Christian IV of Denmark into the ...
		The projected campaign assigned Christian to assault the forces of Count von Tilly in the Rhineland, and for Ernst von Mansfeld to challenge Wallenstein in the bishopric of Magdeburg.
		With his infrantry and artillery skilled to give illusion that his army was smaller than the Protestants, Ernst von Mansfeld attempted to use the sheer weight of the number of his men to push across the river.
		Wallenstein, who at this point was pursuing Von Mansfeld, sent 8,000 troops to assist Tilly who was stationed near Brunswick.
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	Siege of Plzen - Military Event - German Archive: The Siege of Plzen or Battle of Pilsen was a siege of the fortified ...
		Siege of Plzen - Military Event - German Archive: The Siege of Plzen or Battle of Pilsen was a siege of the fortified city of Plzen in Bohemia carried out by the forces of the Bohemian Protestants led by Ernst von Mansfeld.
		The Siege of Plzen or Battle of Pilsen was a siege of the fortified city of Plzen in Bohemia carried out by the forces of the Bohemian Protestants led by Ernst von Mansfeld.
		After several hours of close hand-to-hand combat all of the town was in Mansfeld's hands.
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	Ernst Ii Count Mansfeld / Barbara Von Querfurt
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		Name: Countess Of Mansfeld Katherine Born: October 01, 1501 at Of Herzberg, Hannover, Prussia Died: 1535 at Schloss Herzberg, Hannover, Prussia Husband: Philipp Duke Brunswick Grubenhagen Osterode
		Name: Countess Of Mansfeld Heldrungen Amalie Born: Abt 1506 at Of, Heldrungen, Sachsen, Prussia Died: Husband: Heinrich Xiii "the Reuss Plauen
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