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Facts

Born July 13, 1608 • Graz • Austria
Died April 2, 1657 (aged 48) • Vienna • Austria
Title / Office emperor (1619-1637), Holy Roman Empire
House / Dynasty House of Habsburg
Notable Family Members father Ferdinand II • son Leopold I • son Ferdinand IV
Role In Battle of Nördlingen • Peace of Westphalia • Thirty Years’ War

Photos

Ferdinand III, detail from a portrait from the studio of Peter Paul Rubens; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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Gallas, detail from an engraving
Matthias Gallas, count von Campo
Austrian general
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Ferdinand II
Holy Roman emperor
Mercy, Franz, Freiherr von
Franz, baron von Mercy
Austrian field marshal
Albrecht von Wallenstein
Albrecht von Wallenstein
Bohemian military commander
Tilly, detail from an engraving by G. Kölez, 1631
Johann Tserclaes, count von Tilly
Bavarian general
Montecuccoli, portrait by an unknown artist, 1670; in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
Raimondo Montecuccoli
Austrian field marshal
Piccolomini-Pieri, Ottavio, duca d'Amalfi
Ottavio Piccolomini-Pieri, duca d’Amalfi
Austrian general
Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar.
Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar
duke of Saxe-Weimar
Pappenheim, Gottfried Heinrich, count zu
Gottfried Heinrich, count zu Pappenheim
German officer
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Melchior, Graf von Gleichen und Hatzfeldt
German field marshal
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Maximilian, count von Trauttmansdorff
Austrian statesman and diplomat
Gustav Adolphus
Gustavus Adolphus
king of Sweden
Painting by Jakob Seisenegger showing Emperor Charles V in ornate Renaissance attire standing beside a large hunting dog, with a green curtain in the background.
Charles V
Holy Roman emperor
Turenne, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de
Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne
French military leader
Frederick William
Frederick William
elector of Brandenburg
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd duke de Alba, oil painting by Sir Antony More, 1549; in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3 duque de Alba
Spanish soldier and statesman
Otto IV
Otto IV
Holy Roman emperor
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Charles III, 8th duke de Bourbon
French constable
Sigismund
Sigismund
Holy Roman emperor
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Ernst, count von Mansfeld
German general

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