!!!Dampierre, Henri Duval Graf von

b. near Metz (France), 1580, 
d. in battle near Bratislava, Slovakia (then Pressburg), Oct. 8, 1620. 
General. 1604-1605 served as imperial officer in Hungary and 
Siebenbuergen; 1616-1617 commander in war against Venice and 1619 
against "Bohemian Rebels"; fell in battle against Hungarian rival king 
Bethlen Gábor. On June 5, 1619, D.'s cuirassiers saved  
Ferdinand  II during difficult negotiations with the Protestant 
Estates in the Hofburg Imperial Court Palace; commanders of this 
regiment were thus granted access to the emperor and his regiment was 
allowed to enter the Hofburg at all times.



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