Albrecht von Wallenstein |Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von
Wallenstein| Portrait of Wallenstein, copy after Anthony Van
Dyck, 1629 24 September 1583| Heřmanice, Kingdom of Bohemia
|Died||25 February 1634 Cheb, Kingdom of Bohemia
|Allegiance||Holy Roman Empire| |Years of service||? – 24
January 1634| |Battles/wars||Thirty Years' War| Albrecht Wenzel
Eusebius von Wallenstein ( listen (help·info)) (Czech: Albrecht
Václav Eusebius z Valdštejna) (24 September 1583 – 25 February
1634), also von Waldstein, was a Bohemian[a] military leader and
politician, who offered his services, and an army of 30,000 to
100,000 men during the Thirty Years' War (1618–48), to the Holy
Roman Emperor Ferdinand II. He became the supreme commander of
the armies of the Habsburg Monarchy and a major figure of the
Thirty Years' War. An imperial generalissimo by land, and
Admiral of the Baltic Sea from 21 April 1628, who had made
himself ruler of the lands of the Duchy of Friedland in northern
Bohemia, Wallenstein found himself released from se