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Count and Tilly
In 1631, during the Thirty Years ' War, imperial troops under Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, stormed the city and committed a massacre, killing about 20, 000 inhabitants and burning the town in the sack of Magdeburg.
* Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly ( 1559 – 1632 ), German nobleman and co-Supreme commander of the forces of the Holy Roman Empire
* April 30 – Thirty Years ' War – Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly and commander of the Catholic League armies, dies from wounds sustained at the battle of Rain.
* April 30 – Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly, Bavarian general ( b. 1559 )
Spanish troops under Gastañaga joined the main Allied army, as did the Count of Tilly with troops from Liège and Brandenburg on 22 July.
The Battle of White Mountain, 8 November 1620 ( Bílá hora is the name of White Mountain in Czech ) was an early battle in the Thirty Years ' War in which an army of 30, 000 Bohemians and mercenaries under Christian of Anhalt were routed by 27, 000 men of the combined armies of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor under Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy and the German Catholic League under Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly at Bílá Hora, near Prague ( now part of the city ).
King Frederick and his military commander, Prince Christian of Anhalt, had organized a Protestant army of 30, 000 men ; Ferdinand countered with a force of 25, 000, many of them seasoned soldiers, under the expert leadership of Field Marshal Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, a Catholic Spanish-Flemish nobleman.
Tilly's force was made up of two distinct groups: Imperial troops commanded by Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, and soldiers of the German Catholic League, directly under Tilly.
However, Ernst von Mansfeld continued to occupy a portion of the Upper Palatinate and had successfully resisted efforts by Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly to dislodge him.
Heidelberg is taken by the forces of Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly ( 1559 – 1632 ) on 19 September 1622.
The Battle of Mingolsheim () was fought on April 27, 1622, near the German village of Wiesloch, 14 miles south of Heidelberg ( and 5 miles south of Wiesloch ), between a Protestant army under General von Mansfeld and the margrave of Baden against a Roman Catholic army under Count Tilly.
Combined, the armies aimed to prevent a link-up between Count Tilly and Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
* In the Battle of Rain in April 1632, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden defeated and mortally wounded Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly.
On 30 April 1632, the German field marshal Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly died at Ingolstadt during a Swedish siege of the city.
* Roman Catholic troops of Imperial Field Marschal Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly committed the Sack of Magdeburg in 1631.
As a result of his many years of professional experience he was greatly valued by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and was often assigned the most critical tasks, such as the defence of Neubrandenburg in 1631 ( where he was captured by the forces of Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly ) and command of the Sweden's most important military supply base in central Germany at Nuremberg in 1632.
Count Tilly, Captain of the Cavalry of the Hague.
In order to aid Ferdinand ( elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1619 ) against the Northern Protestants and to produce a balance in the Army of the Catholic League under Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, Wallenstein offered to raise a whole army for the imperial service following the bellum se ipsum alet principle, and received his final commission on 25 July 1625.
Bronze statue of Count Tilly in the Feldherrnhalle on Odeonsplatz in Munich
Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly () ( February 1559 – 30 April 1632 ), commanded the Catholic League's forces in the Thirty Years ' War.
Count Tilly besieged and captured Münden 30 May 1626, whereupon local and refugee Protestant ministers were thrown into the Werra river, but could not lay a siege to Kassel.
Count Tilly, Johann Tserclaes then fought the Danish at the Battle of Lutter on 26 – 27 August 1626 in which his highly disciplined infantry charged the enemy lines four times whereupon they broke through, leading him to win decisively, and destroying more than half the fleeing Danish army ; as was uncharacteristic of warfare of the times.
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Count and Catholic
As his sister Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg was queen of Sweden, George William had to maneuver between requests of assistance from his Protestant brother-in-law King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his own Protestant counsellors on one side and his Catholic chancellor Count Adam von Schwarzenberg on the other.
Voight was raised as a Catholic, and attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, New York, where he first took an interest in acting, playing the comedic role of Count Pepi Le Loup in the school's annual musical, The Song of Norway.
The Catholic Prince-Bishop Franz Wilhelm, Count of Wartenberg then imposed the Counter-Reformation onto the city with many Lutheran burgher families being exiled.
In 1685, the Simmern line died out, and the Palatinate was inherited by Philip William, Count Palatine of Neuburg ( also Duke of Jülich and Berg ), a Catholic.
On 23 May 1618, four Catholic Lords Regent, namely Count Jarolslaw Martinitz, Count Vilem Slavata of Chlum, Adam II von Sternberg ( who was the supreme burgrave ), and Matthew Leopold Popel Lobcowitz ( who was the grand prior ), arrived at the Bohemian Chancellory at 8: 30am.
This left only Count Vilem Slavata, Count Jaroslaw Martinitz ( who had replaced Thurn as Castellan ), known Catholic hard-liners, and the secretary to the Regents.
Count Christopher raised an army ( including troops from Mecklenburg and Oldenburg and the Hanseatic League, especially Lűbeck ) to restore his Catholic uncle King Christian II ( deposed in 1523 ).
Badly wounded in North Africa, Count von Stauffenberg was a political conservative, a zealous German nationalist and a Roman Catholic.
Peter II the Catholic ( Huesca, 1178 – Murèth 12 September 1213 ) was the King of Aragon ( as Pedro II ) and Count of Barcelona ( as Pere I ) from 1196 to 1213.
There was episodes of extreme violence like the killing of Béziers, faced the forces assembled by vassal lords of the Capetian mainly from Ile de France and the north of France, led by Simon de Montfort, against the nobility of Toulouse led by Count Raymond VI of Toulouse and the family Trencavel that, as allies and vassals of the king of Aragon Peter II the Catholic, invoked direct involvement in the conflict at the Aragonese monarch, who was defeated and killed in the course of Battle of Muret in 1213.
The Danish State Council ( rigsraad ), dominated by the still Catholic bishops and nobles, refused to accept Duke Christian as king and turned to Count Christopher of Oldenburg in order to restore Christian II to the Danish throne ( Christian II had supported both the New and Old Faiths at various times ).
The battle was fought between a Roman Catholic Imperial army led by Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy and the Protestant army of Ernst von Mansfeld.
In 1988, he was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Catholic University of Louvain, and in 1991, was raised into the Belgian nobility by King Baudouin with the hereditary title of Count Harmel ( Dutch: graaf Harmel ).
While the rape ( and the name of his daughter ) are universally disregarded, the Count Julian of the Arabic histories has been identified with a North African Catholic named Urban who appears in the Chronicle of 754.
However, his nearest male relative, Wolfgang William, Count Palatine of Neuburg, was a Catholic, so, shortly before his death, Frederick IV had named John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken as his son's guardian.

Count and League
* June 23 – Copenhagen opens its gates to Count Christopher of Oldenburg leading the army of Lübeck ( and the Hanseatic League ), nominally in the interests of the deposed King Christian II of Denmark.
Indeed, on 4 July 1376, two days after Wenceslaus ' election, fourteen Swabian cities bound together into an independent Swabian League to defend their rights against the newly-elected King, attacking the lands of Eberhard II, Count of Württemberg.
In 1387 a quarrel between Frederick, Duke of Bavaria, and the cities of the Swabian League allied with the Archbishop of Salzburg gave the signal for a general war in Swabia, in which the cities, weakened by their isolation, mutual jealousies and internal conflicts, were defeated by the forces of Eberhard II, Count of Württemberg, at Döffingen, near Gafenau, on 24 August 1388.
Christian forced a truce with the Hanseatic League, which had sent troops to help Count Christopher.
An early escapee from the Bastille during this period was Antoine de Chabannes, Count of Dammartin and a member of the League of the Public Weal, who was imprisoned by Louis and escaped by boat in 1465.
In 1428, Oswald broke his oath and travelled to Heidelberg to meet Kurfürst Ludwig von der Pfalz, Archbishop of Cologne, Count Dietrich II von Moers and Duke Adolf VII von Jülich, with the aim to garner the help of the League of the Holy Court in a dispute with his cousin Hans von Villanders, who owed Oswald 2, 200 ducats.
Count Christopher had the support of most of Zealand, Scania, the Hanseatic League, and the small farmers of northern Jutland and Funen.
Founded in 1215 by Count Hermann IV of Ravensberg to guard a pass crossing the Teutoburg Forest, Bielefeld was the " city of linen " as a minor member of the Hanseatic League.
The army of the Catholic League consisted of citizens led by priests and rebellious nobles, Swiss infantry under Appenzell, pikemen brought from Flanders by Philip, Count of Egmont, and the troopers of the Guise family with the Duke of Mayenne in command.
A force of 25, 000 soldiers, including troops of both the Catholic League and the Emperor scored an important victory against Christian of Anhalt and Count Thurn at the decisive Battle of White Mountain west of Prague on 8 November 1620.
Matthias Gallas, Graf von Campo und Herzog von Lucera ( Count of Campo, Duke of Lucera ) ( Matteo Gallasso ; Trento 1584 – Vienna 1647 ), was an Austrian soldier, who first saw service in Flanders, then in Savoy with the Spaniards, and subsequently joined the forces of the Catholic League as captain during the Thirty Years ' War.
The forces involved in this conflict were 40, 000 Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus and 25, 000 Catholic League troops under Count Johan Tzerclaes of Tilly.
Roxburgh appeared as three iconic characters over the next three years: he played Sherlock Holmes in 2002's The Hound of the Baskervilles, Holmes's nemesis Professor Moriarty in 2003's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Count Dracula in 2004's Van Helsing.
Upon Frederick's rapid and fierce initial success, Margrave William of Montferrat and the Count of Biandrate abandoned the Lombard League.
He has served as a member of several boards, including as President of the Westminster Rotary Club, Chairman of the Oconee District Boy Scouts, President of the Westminster Chamber of Commerce, board member of the Oconee County Red Cross, member of the Oconee Kids Do Count Board, and coach of the Barrett's Furniture Pony League baseball team.
He appears as a member of the Injustice League and is shown working with Count Vertigo, Poison Ivy, Black Adam, Wotan, Atomic Skull, and Joker to unleash giant plant monsters ( modified by Kobra Venom and sorcery ) upon the major cities of the world.
Francis, having finally drawn Henry VIII into the League, sent an army under Odet de Foix and Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto through Genoa — where Andrea Doria had quickly joined the French and seized much of the Genoese fleet — to Naples, where it proceeded to dig itself in for an extended siege.
In 1918 the Volunteers, the Irish National League, and Count Plunkett's followers, the Liberty Clubs agreed to merge under the Sinn Féin banner with Éamon de Valera as President to fight the 1918 general election on an abstentionist platform.

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