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b. The Danish Period, 1625–29
 
Christian IV, king of Denmark and duke of Holstein, was the head of the Lower Saxon circle of the empire and leader of the Protestants.  1
Albert (Albrecht) von Wallenstein (1583–1634), born in Bohemia of an Utraquist family but educated in the Catholic faith, made duke of Friedland in 1624 and became the commander of an imperial army recruited by himself and provisioned by a system of robbery.  2
 
1626
 
Wallenstein defeated Mansfeld at the Bridge of Dessau and pursued him through Silesia to Hungary, where Mansfeld joined Bethlen Gabor. Death of Mansfeld and of Christian of Brunswick (1626).  3
 
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Tilly defeated Christian IV at Lutter am Barenberge, in Brunswick.  4
 
 
 
The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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