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ALDRINGER (ALTRINGER, ALDRINGEN), JOHANN

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ALDRINGER (ALTRINGER, ALDRINGEN), JOHANN , See also:COUNT voN (1588-1634), See also:Austrian soldier, was See also:born at See also:Diedenhofen (Thionville) in See also:Lorraine. After travelling as See also:page to a nobleman in See also:France, See also:Italy and the See also:Netherlands, he went to the university of See also:Paris. In ,6o6 he entered the service of See also:Spain, in which he remained until 1618, when he joined the imperial See also:army. Here he distinguished himself in the See also:field and in the See also:cabinet. Made a See also:colonel in 1622, two years later he was employed on the See also:council of See also:war and on See also:diplomatic See also:missions. At the See also:bridge of See also:Dessau in 1626 he performed very distinguished service against See also:Ernst von See also:Mansfeld. He and his See also:constant comrade See also:Matthias See also:Gallas (q.v.) were ennobled on the same See also:day, and in the course of the See also:Italian See also:campaign of 163o the two See also:officers married the two daughters of Count d'Arco. Aldringer served as Count Rambold Collalto's See also:major-See also:general in this campaign and was See also:present at the taking of See also:Mantua. The See also:plunder of the See also:duke of Mantua's treasures made Gallas and Aldringer wealthy men. Back in See also:Germany in 1 631, he served after See also:Breitenfeld as See also:Tilly's See also:artillery See also:commander, and, elevated to the dignity of count of the See also:Empire, he was present at the See also:battle of the See also:Lech, where he was wounded. When Tilly died of his wounds Aldringer succeeded to the command. Made field-See also:marshal after the See also:assault of the Alte Veste near See also:Nuremberg, at which he had been second in command under See also:Wallenstein, duke of See also:Friedland (with whom he was a See also:great favourite), he was next placed at the See also:head of the See also:corps formed by See also:Maximilian I. of See also:Bavaria to support Wallenstein.

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post his tact and diplomatic ability were put to a severe test in the preservation of See also:harmony between the two See also:dukes. Finally Count Aldringer was won over by the See also:court party which sought to displace the too successful duke of Friedland. After Wallenstein's See also:death Aldringer commanded against the Swedes on the See also:Danube, and at the See also:defence of See also:Landshut he See also:fell (See also:July 22, 1634). His great possessions descended to his See also:sister, and thence to the See also:family of Clary and Aldringen. See Brohm, Johann von Aldringen (See also:Halle, 1882), and See also:Hermann Hallwich, Johann von Aldringen (See also:Leipzig, 1885) ; also Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, s.v. Gallas, correcting earlier See also:biography of Aldringer in the same See also:work.

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