Claim to fame: Didn't get the severance package he had hoped for Wallenstein prospered by providing armed regiments to Ferdinand, the Habsburg emperor, during the Thirty Years' War. Born into a ...

Duke Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein (1583-1634) was a military leader, politician, and financier whose impact on Jicin and the Habsburg Empire remains a topic of debate and literary ...