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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 600 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MANSFELD , the name of an old and illustrious See also:

German See also:family which took its name from Mansfeld in See also:Saxony, where it was seated from the 11th to the 18th See also:century. One of its earliest members was Hoyer von Mansfeld (d. 1115), a See also:partisan of the See also:emperor See also:Henry V. during his struggles with the See also:Saxons; he fought for Henry at Warnstadt and was killed in his service at Welfesholz. Still more famous was See also:Albert, See also:count of Mansfeld (148o-156o), an intimate friend of See also:Luther and one of the earliest and staunchest supporters of the See also:Reformation. He helped to crush the rising of the peasants under See also:Thomas See also:Munzer in Thuringia in 1525; he was a member of the See also:league of See also:Schmalkalden, and took See also:part in all the movements of the Protestants against See also:Charles V. With Albert was associated his See also:brother Gebhard, and another member of the family was Johann' Gebhard, elector here he died on the 25th of See also:November 1626. He was buried at See also:Spalato. See F. Stieve, See also:Ernst von Mansfeld (See also:Munich, 1890); R. See also:Reuss, See also:Graf Ernst von Mansfeld See also:im behmischen Kriege (See also:Brunswick, 1865); A. C. de Villermont, Ernest de Mansfeldt (See also:Brussels, 1866); L. Graf Uetterodt zu Schaffenberg, Ernst Graf zu Mansfeld (See also:Gotha; 1867); J.

Grossmann, See also:

Des Grafen Ernst von Mansfeld letzte See also:Plane and Thaten (See also:Breslau, 187o) ; E. See also:Fischer, Des Mansfelders See also:Tod (See also:Berlin, 1873) ; S. R. See also:Gardiner, See also:History of See also:England, vols. iv. and v. (1901) ; J., L. See also:Motley, See also:Life and See also:Death of See also:John of Barneveld (ed. 1904; vol. ii.).

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