Claude Frédéric T'Serclaes, Count Of Tilly
Claude Frederic T'Serclaes, Count of Tilly, was a soldier and later general in the Dutch States Army. Early life He was born in 1648 to Jean Werner T'Serclaes Tilly Marbais and Marie Françoise de Montmorency Robecq. He was a younger brother of Albert Octave who served Philip V of Spain. The grandfather of these brothers was a younger brother of Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly of the Thirty Years War. Military service In 1667 Tilly entered Spanish service, but switched to Dutch service in 1672, even though he was a Catholic. In the Dutch army he took part in the Franco-Dutch War, Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession. In the latter, together with the Lord of Slangenburg, he commandeded a small surrounded Dutch army at the Battle of Ekeren. They broke out and defeated a much larger Franco-Spanish force. When field marshal Lord Overkirk died in 1708, Tilly became supreme commander of the Dutch army in the Netherlands. He was informally made field marshal in ...
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