Melchior, Graf von Gleichen und Hatzfeldt

Melchior, Graf von Gleichen und Hatzfeldt (born October 10, 1593, Krottorf, Sayn, Germany—died January 9, 1658, Castle Powitzko, near Trachenberg, Silesia [now Żmigród, Poland]) was a field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48). Though active in every theatre of the war, he proved no match for the leading Protestant generals. From 1625 to 1632 Hatzfeldt campaigned under the imperial generalissimo Albrecht von Wallenstein; he then took part in the...