The formation of a confederate army begins. …
Years: 1619 - 1619
December
The formation of a confederate army begins.
Bavaria’s seven thousand-man contingent is the largest contribution to the League’s army, whose strength is fixed at Würzburg in December 1619, as twenty-one thusand infantry and four thousand cavalry.
Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, a descendant of a Catholic Brabantine family, is commander in chief.
Locations
People
Groups
- Passau, Bishopric of
- Eichstätt, Prince-Bishopric of
- Mainz, Electoral Archbishopric of
- Augsburg, Prince-Bishopric of
- Speyer, Prince-Bishopric of
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Constance, Bishopric of
- Austria, Archduchy of
- Würzburg, Bishopric of
- Trier, Electoral Archbishop of
- Ulm, Free Imperial City of
- Bohemia, Kingdom of
- Kempten in the Allgäu, Imperial Ducal Abbey (Free City) of
- Nuremberg, Free Imperial City of
- Strasbourg, Imperial Free City of
- Salzburg, Archbishopric of
- Cologne, Electorate of
- Palatinate, Electoral (Wittelsbach)
- Worms, Bishopric of
- Brandenburg, (Hohenzollern) Margravate of
- Württemberg, Duchy of
- Regensburg (Ratisbon), Imperial Free City of
- Palatinate-Neuburg
- Bavaria, Wittelsbach Duchy of
- Baden-Durlach, Margravate of
- Protestantism
- Hungary, Royal
- Transylvania (Ottoman vassal), Principality of
- Hungary, Kingdom of
- Baden-Rodenheim, Margravate of
- Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic)
- Anhalt-Zerbst, Principality of
- Anhalt-Dessau, Principality of
- Anhalt-Bernburg, Principality of
- England, (Stuart) Kingdom of
- Anhalt-Plotzkau, Principality of
- Anhalt-Köthen, Principality of
- Protestant League (League of Evangelical Union)
- Catholic League, the (German)
- Habsburg Monarchy, or Empire
Topics
- Protestant Reformation
- Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival)
- Bohemian-Palatine War
- Thirty Years' War
