!!!Tilly, Johann Tserclaes Graf

b. Tilly Palace (Belgium), Febuary, 1559, 
d. Ingolstadt (Germany), April 30, 1632, Spanish, then Imperial 
Commander. 1610 he headed the Catholic League, won the battle at the 
White Mountain near Prague in 1620 and in 1622 won against the Danes 
at Lutter am Barenberge; 1630 Imperial Generalissimo; besieged and 
conquered Magdeburg in 1631; defeated by Gustavus Adolfus on Sept. 17, 
1631 at Breitenfeld (Saxony-Anhalt) and on April 15, 1632 at Rain am 
Lech, where he was fatally wounded in the battle.

!Literature
M. S. Junkelmann, J. T. Gf. v. T., in: H. Glaser (ed.) Um 
Glauben und Reich, Kurfuerst Maximilian I., exhibition catalogue, 
Munich 1980.



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