Reinhold von Rosen (1605 – 8 December 1667) was a Baltic nobleman fighting for Sweden and France. Reinhold was one of the great generals of the

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Birth and origins

Born in 1605 in

Livonia Livonia ( liv, Līvõmō, et, Liivimaa, fi, Liivinmaa, German and Scandinavian languages: ', archaic German: ''Liefland'', nl, Lijfland, Latvian and lt, Livonija, pl, Inflanty, archaic English: ''Livland'', ''Liwlandia''; russian: Ли ...

, son of Otto von Rosen and his wife Catharina von Klebeck.

Career

Reinhold was one of the great generals of the

. He served

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in his youth. In 1632, at the Battle of Lützen in which Gustavus Adolphus fell, he commanded a cavalry regiment. He then served

Bernard of Saxe-Weimar Bernard of Saxe-Weimar (german: Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar; 16 August 160418 July 1639) was a German prince and general in the Thirty Years' War. Biography Born in Weimar within the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Bernard was the eleventh son of Johan ...

On 17 July 1635 he successfully defended the Protestant town of

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menaced by imperial troops. When Bernard died in 1639, he and the entire Weimar army went into French service and served under Condé and

Turenne Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne (11 September 161127 July 1675), commonly known as Turenne , was a French general and one of only six Marshals to have been promoted Marshal General of France. The most illustrious member of the ...

. He fought under Turenne in his defeat against

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at the

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and was taken prisoner.

Marriages

Rosen married three times. He had a daughter, Marie-Sophie von Rosen (1638–1686), who married

Conrad von Rosen Conrad von Rosen (1628–1715) was a soldier from Livonia, who served in the French army under Louis XIV from 1646 on. He fought in the Franco-Dutch War (1672–1678) and the Nine Years' War (1688–1691). In 1689 he went to Ireland with James ...

Death

Rosen died on 18 December 1667 in the castle he had built in

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References

* 1605 births 1667 deaths French military personnel French military personnel of the Thirty Years' War Baltic-German people People from Bas-Rhin Swedish military personnel

Reinhold Reinhold is a German male given name. This German name is originally from "Reinold", composed of two elements. The first is from ''ragin'', meaning "the (Germanic) Gods" and ''wald'' meaning "powerful". This name was popularised by the ancient Ge ...

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