Albrecht von Wallenstein
Bohemian military leader and statesman who fought on the Catholic side during the Thirty Years' War (1583-1634)
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A mercenary general who became so powerful the Holy Roman Emperor he served had him killed. Wallenstein turned Protestant revolt into personal empire, commanded armies across half of Europe during the Thirty Years' War, then tried to negotiate his own peace.
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Born into a poor Czech Protestant family in Bohemia in 1583, Wallenstein converted to Catholicism in 1606 and married into wealth three years later — his wife's death in 1614 left him with estates that funded his transformation into a military contractor. He raised forces for the Holy Roman Emperor in 1617, then fought against the Protestant Bohemian Revolt in 1618, receiving confiscated rebel lands after the White Mountain victory in 1620. By 1625 he commanded 50,000 men, crushing Protestants at Dessau Bridge a year later and claiming the Duchy of Friedland as his personal domain. Made genera…
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