Wallenstein. The Enigma of the Thirty Years War

28 Wallenstein James I of England, Frederick’s father-in-law, made public his disap- proval of the whole affair and would have n ...

A Scandal in Bohemia 29 little choice but to follow suit, bringing 1619 to an end for military purposes. That was the limit of B ...

30 Wallenstein fought with some personal distinction at Gradisca, and while he was not always with his regiment due to illness a ...

A Scandal in Bohemia 31 at Ferdinand’s court following his actions at Gradisca and Olmütz no doubt helped, but he will still hav ...

32 Wallenstein title of king of Bohemia, headed west to Holland, Anhalt went north and took refuge with the Scandinavian monarch ...

A Scandal in Bohemia 33 Frederick’s Bohemian pretensions were nevertheless not prepared to see him deprived of his Palatinate, n ...

34 Wallenstein in Moravia, did not agree, probably because he and his friends would have been the largest contributors. When Die ...

35 4. Richer Than All His Tribe (Othello) When Wallenstein clattered into Vienna with the contents of the Olmütz treasury in May ...

36 Wallenstein destroyed, and certainly the opportunists and adventurers who acquired pieces of Wallenstein’s property after his ...

Richer Than All His Tribe 37 provided under the ‘laws of war’ both as a punishment for those who had held out pointlessly and as ...

38 Wallenstein Bohemia and Moravia, also ensured that he would recover his confis- cated properties. He had been a substantial M ...

Richer Than All His Tribe 39 formed, as is shown by previous debasements in Bohemia, one under Frederick’s short-lived governmen ...

40 Wallenstein credited an average of 78 gulden per mark, while Bassevi provided over 25 per cent, probably near the beginning a ...

Richer Than All His Tribe 41 into a contract with the exchequer, took a risk on the problems of secur- ing enough silver and the ...

42 Wallenstein everything was confiscated, and the owners were entitled only to mon- etary compensation for the balance. The sca ...

Richer Than All His Tribe 43 time being, males taking precedence. Although enormously wealthy, however, the family was gradually ...

44 Wallenstein so that she likewise lost any prospective claim to inherit after Heinrich Georg’s death. The outstanding question ...

Richer Than All His Tribe 45 death, particularly as no-one knew how long he might live or what further upsets there might be in ...

46 Wallenstein for sale, and after some negotiation his offer of 150,000 gulden was accepted.^19 In the following eighteen month ...

Richer Than All His Tribe 47 and a half million gulden to be provided by Wallenstein and unnamed associates.^21 It seems a safe ...