Rudolf Hieronymus Eusebius von Colloredo-Waldsee, born 2 November 1585 in

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, Kingdom of

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(now in the

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), was a Bohemian nobleman and the brother of Hieronymus von Colloredo-Waldsee. A member of the

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family, he distinguished himself in the

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, especially at the Battles of Mantua and

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. Emperor Ferdinand III appointed him to the Imperial Privy Council and named him a

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. Although unable to prevent

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from falling to Sweden's

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, Colloredo-Waldsee's bold defense of Prague's old town halted the Swedish invasion of Bohemia on 26 July 1648 and saved the

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's ancestral lands in Austria. After the war, he built the Schönborn Palace in Prague home to the United States Embassy to the Czech Republic. He died in Prague on 24 February 1657.Wilhelm Edler von Janko: Colloredo-Waldsee, Rudolf Graf von. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, S. 420.

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