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Article: Wallenstein, A. W. E. von (Originally Waldstein; 1583–1634)
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WALLENSTEIN, A. W. E. VON (originally Waldstein; 1583
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1634)
WALLENSTEIN, A. W. E. VON
(originally Waldstein; 1583
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1634), Bohemian noble, soldier, and statesman who played an important role in the Thirty Years' War (1618
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1648). Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein was born in Bohemia (today the Czech Republic). Given a Protestant upbringing, he converted to Catholicism in 1606. In 1609, his Jesuit confessor arranged his marriage to a wealthy widow who may have been some ten years his senior. When she died in 1614, he inherited all her estates. During the Bohemian rebellion that began in 1618, he remained loyal to the ruler, the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II ...
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