Tilly in the gravedigger's house in Leipzig 1631 AD WOODCUT from 1862

Description: Tilly in the gravedigger's house in Leipzig 1631 AD. Original wood engraving from 1862 (not a reprint) Sheet size approx. 26.5 x 20 cm, unprinted on the back. Condition: minimally stained, otherwise good - see scan! If you have any questions, please send a mail.Please also note my other offers! Here are more motifs about German history!I offer many more color prints, wood engravings, steel engravings and lithographs - please use the SHOP search. Shipping costs are only charged once if you purchase multiple items! Documentation: Johann T'Serclaes of Tilly, also Johannes T'Serclaes of Tilly or Jean T'Serclaes von Tilly (born February 1559 at Tilly Castle in the Duchy of Brabant; † 30. April 1632 in Ingolstadt) was a count who served as supreme military commander of both the Catholic League and, from 1630, of the Imperial Army during the Thirty Years' War. Johann T'Serclaes Tilly was born in February 1559 at Tilly Castle, municipality of Villers-la-Ville in Brabant, 30 km southeast of Brussels in what is now Belgium, which had been part of the Spanish Netherlands since 1522. His father was Martin T'Serclaes of Montigny and Balatre († 1597), seneschal of the County of Namur, general and imperial court councilor. His mother Dorothea von Schierstedt was the daughter of Meinhard the Elder von Schierstedt, a royal Hungarian court marshal, and Dorothea von Gersdorff. His parents had on the 12th Married in Görzke in October 1552. The T'Serclaes de Tilly family was an old Dutch noble family from the ancestral house of Tilly in the Duchy of Brabant, which began an uninterrupted line of ancestry with Johann the Elder T'Serclaes on Tilly († 1473). Johann's paternal grandfather was Jakob T'Serclaes auf Montigny († 1555), hereditary seneschal of the County of Namur, husband of Maria de Bossime (Bossimel) on Balatre, daughter of the Sieur de Bossimel, a hereditary seneschal of the County of Namur and Mabille de Crehen. Johann had three siblings: Margareta († 1634), whose first marriage was to Jobst Heinrich von Witzleben, Vicomte d'Upigny; in his second marriage to Edmund Freiherr von Schwarzenberg on Bierset. Another sister, Maria, died in 1642.[1] His older brother was Jakob T'Serclaes de Tilly (* Tilly Castle, around 1555; † before 1626), hereditary seneschal of the County of Namur, who married Johann on the 13th. He was elevated to the status of imperial count in September 1622.[2] Jakob was married to Countess Dorothea of East Frisia, daughter of Count Maximilian of East Frisia, whose father was Count Johann I of East Frisia and whose mother Dorothea was a daughter of Emperor Maximilian I. The wife of Maximilian Count of East Frisia was Barbara de Lalaing, Countess of Hochstraden. Jakob's son and Johann's nephew, Werner T'Serclaes Count von Tilly zu Breitenegg (* around 1595; † 30. January 1651), after the death of Johann T'Serclaes, Tilly received his property in Bavaria and the Bohemian Incolate. Their descendants were: Ernst Emmerich T'Serclaes Graf von Tilly († 22. April 1675), married in his first marriage with Klara Katharina Countess von Lamberg, in her second marriage with Maria Anna Theresia Freiin von Hasslang. The son from his first marriage, Anton Ferdinand Johann T'Serclaes Count von Tilly, died unmarried in 1663 on a trip to Venice. Ferdinand Lorenz Franz Xaver T'Serclaes Count of Tilly died on January 30th. January 1724, the last male known bearer of the name was unmarried. His sister, the last of the Bavarian line of those from Tilly, Maria Anna Katharina von Tilly-Montfort, who married Count Anton von Montfort (* 1635; † 1706) in 1692, died on January 21st. July 1744 at Tilly Castle in Breitenbrunn (Upper Palatinate). Elisabeth Appolonia Countess von Tilly (* before 1629; † Prague, Maria Schein parish on 14. August 1653); First married to Christoph Ferdinand Popel Baron von Lobkowitz, auf Bilin, Governor of the Glogau Fortress, President of the Silesian Chamber, then Obersthofmeister and Governor in the Kingdom of Bohemia, second married in 1661 to Wilhelm Albrecht Graf von Kolowrat-Krakowsky, auf Teinitzl, Oberstburggrave in Prague. The sons of another nephew of Johann T'Serclaes von Tilly, namely Johann Werner, Lord of Montigny etc., Seneschal of Namur († 1669), were Field Marshal Albert Octave t'Serclaes de Tilly, who was made prince, and Lieutenant Field Marshal Claude Frédéric t'Serclaes van Tilly. After his education at a Jesuit school, Tilly chose a military career. As a native subject of the Spanish crown, he initially entered their military service, where he learned the craft of war under Alessandro Farnese (1545–1592). He later switched to the Lorraine flag and in 1598 to the imperial army. In 1600 he fought as a lieutenant colonel in Hungary under General Giorgio Basta against insurgents and in the Turkish wars against the Ottomans; In 1601 he was promoted to field sergeant general and became colonel of a Walloon regiment. In 1604 he was appointed field master, and the following year he was appointed field marshal. Appointed lieutenant general in 1610, Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria entrusted him with leadership of the league army contingents (that is, belonging to the Catholic League) and with the reorganization of the Bavarian army. In November 1630, in addition to his command as military commander of the Catholic League, Tilly was appointed lieutenant general of the imperial troops. He thus succeeded Wallenstein, who had been deposed as imperial field captain general in August. Despite However, due to the increased power, Tilly never had the military freedom of decision-making of a generalissimo, such as Wallenstein had held (and who held it again after Tilly's death in 1632); Tilly always remained subject to the instructions of the war councils in Vienna and Munich. When the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) broke out, Tilly began a distinguished career as a commander in the Catholic League. He fought on the 8th. November 1620 in the Battle of White Mountain together with the imperial field marshal Charles Bonaventure de Longueval and subdued western Bohemia with the capture of Pilsen in March 1621. Then he turned against Count Peter Ernst II with an army of mercenaries. von Mansfeld, who defended the Protestant Palatinate homelands (initially the Upper Palatinate) against the imperial-Bavarian-Catholic counterattack. After Tilly was held up by Mansfeld near Waidhaus in the Upper Palatinate Forest for months in the summer of 1621,[4] he followed his opponent to the Rhine Palatinate in the fall of 1621. On 27 In April 1622, Tilly was killed by Peter Ernst II in the Battle of Mingolsheim. von Mansfeld, but then defeated Margrave Georg Friedrich of Baden-Durlach on the 6th. May at the Battle of Wimpfen. On 20 In June he triumphed in the Battle of Höchst over Duke Christian of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and conquered Heidelberg, Mannheim and Frankenthal (Palatinate). This was followed by another victory over the “great Halberstädter” on June 6th. August 1623 in the Battle of Stadtlohn. Thereupon, Bavaria's ruler, Maximilian I (Elector since February 1623), gave Tilly, who had until then remained without property, on the 2nd. May 1624 the Upper Palatinate manorial rule over Preitenegg with the Breitenbrunn market as a fiefdom (from 1635 Imperial County of Breitenegg). Initially, Tilly and his army stayed in Lower Saxony, where he initiated the violent restitution (re-Catholicization) of the Evangelical Lutheran dioceses and monasteries to the Catholic Church and the Jesuits and forced the Lower Saxon imperial circle to fight. During this time he besieged and conquered several cities. On 30. MayJul. / 9. June 1626greg. Tilly's starving mercenaries took possession of the city of Münden by plundering and murdering.[5] Shortly afterwards he had Göttingen besieged and shelled in order to extort ransom money. He forced Harz miners to reroute the line and tried to cut off all water supplies. At the beginning of August 1626 the siege was successfully completed and Tilly emerged victorious move in. On 27 In August 1626 he defeated the army of the Danish King Christian IV. in the Battle of Lutter am Barenberge. After the imperial general Wallenstein had occupied the Danish mainland territories, Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland, in 1627, Tilly and Wallenstein finally forced the Danish king on the 12th. MayJul. / 22. May 1629greg. at the conclusion of the Peace of Lübeck. In his dual role as League and Imperial military commander in chief since 1630, he enforced the implementation of the Edict of Restitution in Northern Germany. In 1631, the capture of Neubrandenburg took place amidst cruel slaughter. Since his troops were not powerful enough to continue to advance safely, Tilly united most of his army with the troops of Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim, who besieged, conquered and destroyed the city of Magdeburg, which was allied with the Swedes. Tilly then crossed the Elbe at the Westerhüsen ferry and took up residence in the Freihof in the village of Westerhüsen. However, he was unable to stop the advance of the Swedish King Gustav II. Adolf from the province of Pomerania to the west. On 20 In May 1631, Tilly conquered Magdeburg. A fire turned the city into a pile of rubble. The devastation went so far that Magdeburg went down in the history of the Thirty Years' War as a symbol of destruction and cruelty with the term "Magdeburgize". During the storming of Magdeburg, the subsequent violence and fires, 20,000 (according to some sources 30,000) citizens lost their lives, with Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim's troops particularly ravaging the city. After the disaster, 449 of the 35,000 inhabitants were still counted. This massacre, known as the Magdeburg Wedding, is considered the largest and worst of the Thirty Years' War and was also a turning point in the conduct of the war. The events triggered an unprecedented escalation of violence as the war continued.Source: WikipediaIf the combined shipping via eBay does not work, I will of course refund the overpaid shipping costs! Johann T'Serclaes of Tilly, also Johannes T'Serclaes of Tilly or Jean T'Serclaes von Tilly (born February 1559 at Tilly Castle in the Duchy of Brabant; † 30. April 1632 in Ingolstadt) was a count who served as supreme military commander of both the Catholic League and, from 1630, of the Imperial Army during the Thirty Years' War. Johann T'Serclaes Tilly was born in February 1559 at Tilly Castle, municipality of Villers-la-Ville in Brabant, 30 km southeast of Brussels in what is now Belgium, which had been part of the Spanish Netherlands since 1522. His father was Martin T'Serclaes of Montigny and Balatre († 1597), seneschal of the County of Namur, general and imperial court councilor. His mother Dorothea von Schierstedt was the daughter of Meinhard the Elder von Schierstedt, a royal Hunga

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