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Who ordered the soldiers who killed Albrecht von Wallenstein at Eger?
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Albrecht von Wallenstein
Albrecht von Wallenstein, portrait by Anthony van Dyck, 1629; in the Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich.
The assassination of Albrecht von Wallenstein was ordered by the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II.
Following reports of Wallenstein's conspiracy, the emperor signed a letter patent on January 24, 1634, which officially deposed the generalissimo and ordered the capture or liquidation of Wallenstein and his chief conspirators. While the soldiers who carried out the act at Eger were under the command of Walter Butler, Walter Leslie, and John Gordon, the directive for his death originated from the imperial court in Vienna as a response to his perceived rebellion and treason during the Thirty Years’ War.12