Being a major creditor to the Emperor, as well as having amassed vast holdings of land over the course of the war, Wallenstein was the ideal victim for the Emperor to settle his debts.
Mortimer makes a good case that the assassination plot grew out of court intrigues by Wallenstein's detractors, coupled with the Emperor's cynical practice of financing the endless conflict with expropriations of property. It was asserted that he was planning to betray the Emperor and go over to the Swedes. In brief, his abilities as a logistical genius, and a competent, far-sighted general saved the Holy Roman Empire twice, but for this service he was assassinated by Emperor Ferdinand II. It also serves well as a reasonably brief biography of this figure, against the backdrop of the first fifteen years of this horrific conflict. Klaus Bussmann and Heinz Schilling (eds.This is an ably written attempt to clear away the legends that have grown up around Albrecht von Wallenstein, the brilliant Imperial commander during the first half of the Thirty Years War.
German Histories in the Age of Reformations, 1400-1650.The Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618-1648.The Ashgate Research Companion to the Thirty Years' War.Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's CollegeĪssociate Professor in History at Durham University Many more civilians died than soldiers, and famine was so great that even cannibalism was excused.Ĭhichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford It pitched Catholics against Protestants, Lutherans against Calvinists and Catholics against Catholics across the Holy Roman Empire, drawing in their neighbours and it lasted for thirty gruelling years, from the Defenestration of Prague to the Peace of Westphalia of 1648. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the war in Europe which begain in 1618 and continued on such a scale and with such devastation that its like was not seen for another three hundred years.
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