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    Jörg Jenatsch, also called Jürg or Georg Jenatsch (1596 – 24 January 1639), was a Swiss political leader during the Thirty Years' War, one of the most...
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    the Leagues entered into an alliance with France, Savoy and Venice. Jürg Jenatsch and Ulysses von Salis used French money to hire an 8,000-man mercenary...
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    Richelieu saw the Valtellina as an opportunity to weaken the Spanish. Jürg Jenatsch and Ulysses von Salis used French money to hire an 8,000 man mercenary...
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    Rohan's French army had to withdraw following the political intrigues of Jürg Jenatsch, who managed to play the French off against the Spaniards. Until 1639...
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    moral freedom and is forced to fulfill the higher law of destiny. 1876 Jürg Jenatsch – Graubünden, Thirty Years' War, a story of Switzerland in the 17th...
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    Lucrecia) were immortalised in Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's popular 1876 novel Jürg Jenatsch. Planta, Pompejus von (2011) in Historical Dictionary of Switzerland...
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    Gregor Retti (co-compiler) (1930). "Carnot, Maurus: Die Geschichte des Jürg Jenatsch". Projekt Historischer Roman: Datenbank. Institut für Germanistik: Universität...
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    several generations. Jakob's grandson, also named Jakob, accompanied Jürg Jenatsch to Rietberg Castle in 1621 to murder Pompeius Planta during the Bündner...
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