Wallenstein supported Emperor Ferdinand II (1619-1637) by raising an army to support the Austrian Habsburgs. After additional military successes Wallenstein became a prince and then Duke of Friedland in 1625. He gradually grouped his estates into what was called Friedland in northern Bohemia. After the Imperial victory at the Battle of White Mountain (1620), Wallenstein regained his lands that had been lost to the Protestant rebels in Bohemia, and then secured additional lands that had belonged to his mother’s family as well as confiscated lands that had belonged to Protestant rebels. He raised a regiment of troops and fought in the wars against Count Ernst von Mansfeld and Bethlan Gabor, Prince of Transylvania, in Moravia.

Mortimer’s previous works include Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618-48 (2002) and (as editor) Early Modern Military History, 1450-1815 (2004).Īt the outbreak of the Bohemian revolt, that began the Thirty Years War, Wallenstein took the side of the Austrian Habsburgs and the Catholics against the Bohemian Protestant rebels, led by Elector Frederick V of the Rhine Palatinate. He notes that previous studies in the English language by John Mitchell, The Life of Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland (1837), Francis Watson, Wallenstein: Soldier under the Sun (1938), and Golo Mann, Wallenstein: His Life Narrated (1971, translated into English in 1976) continued to propagate many myths about the man who was assassinated by imperial soldiers after he became too powerful in the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War. Dr Geoff Mortimer expertly explores the life and military leadership of Wallenstein in this study. He twice raised, financed, and led massive armies to save Emperor Ferdinand II from defeat in the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). $100.00.Īlbrecht von Wallenstein (1583-1634), a minor Bohemian nobleman, was a military entrepreneur that rose to become one of the most powerful men in central Europe, one of the greatest landowners, and a prince.

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