Franz Freiherr von Mercy (or Merci), Lord of Mandre and Collenburg (c. 1597 – 3 August 1645), was a German field marshal in the Thirty Years' War who fought...
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the town, which had recently surrendered to a Bavarian force under Franz von Mercy. In what has been described as the bloodiest battle of the war, around...
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army led by Turenne, defeated by a Bavarian force under Franz von Mercy. In February 1645, Mercy detached 5,000 of his veteran Bavarian cavalry to support...
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forces of the Holy Roman Empire, Bavaria and Spain led by Franz von Mercy. Technically, Mercy led a military force composed of his Bavarian army, supported...
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in France. His grandfather was the Bavarian field marshal Franz Freiherr von Mercy. Mercy entered the Austrian army as a volunteer in 1682. He won his...
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marshal Guebriant was uneventful, but his second (1643) in which Baron Franz von Mercy was his commander-in-chief, was the Battle of Tuttlingen in which Werth...
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the Siege of Dorsten in 1641. In 1643, he aided the Bavarians under Franz von Mercy in their successful attack on the French army in their winter quarters...
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Germany after it was shattered by an Imperial-Bavarian force led by Franz von Mercy at Tuttlingen in November. Soon after Rocroi, Ferdinand invited Sweden...
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November 1643, in which he defeated the French together with Franz von Mercy and Johann von Werth. In 1651 Charles IV was approached by an Irish delegation...
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by the united Imperial-Bavarian troupes under Franz von Mercy, Melchior Graf von Hatzfeldt, and Johann von Werth. Tuttlingen was an administrative seat...
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Baron Franz von Mercy was made master-general of ordnance in the army of Bavaria, then the second largest army in the Holy Roman Empire. Mercy and Johann...
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16,000-man Imperial-Bavarian army, led by Field Marshal Franz Baron von Mercy and Johann von Werth entrenched on rising ground near the village of Alerheim...
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the defeat of Turenne by Franz von Mercy at Mergentheim, but this was retrieved in the victory of Nördlingen, in which Mercy was killed, and Enghien himself...
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Because of Kempen, the Westphalian army under Melchior von Hatzfeld and the Bavarians under Franz von Mercy split up from the main Imperial force to contain...
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Battle of Herbsthausen (or Mergentheim): The Bavarian army, led by Franz von Mercy, catches French forces led by Marshal Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne,...
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the summer of 1644, an imperial Bavarian army led by generals Franz von Mercy and Johann von Werth recaptured city. Subsequently, this led to the Battle...
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von Leiningen Philipp II von Leiningen Westerburg Friedrich von Logau Adolf Friedrich I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Franz von Mercy Bernhard Meyer Johann Michael...
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to the Baltic. In 1639, after unification with the Bavarians under Franz von Mercy, the Emperor transferred the command on the Rhine to Geleen. He crossed...
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August, the Bavarians under Franz von Mercy could not prevent French troops capturing Philippsburg, and occupying Lorraine. Mercy withdrew into Franconia...
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November – A combined Imperial-Bavarian army under Franz von Mercy defeats the French army under Josias von Rantzau, shattering their force and compelling...
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Battle of Herbsthausen (or Mergentheim): The Bavarian army, led by Franz von Mercy, catches French forces led by Marshal Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne,...
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under Franz von Mercy in his winter quarters at Tuttlingen in November 1643. The Bavarians captured him and shattered his army. The next year, Mercy went...
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reconnaissance party led by Heinrich von Mercy, Lamboy's deputy and brother of the Bavarian general Franz von Mercy. Prisoners informed Guébriant that Hatzfeldt...
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Otto Louis stayed at the Rhine. Because Rheinfelden's garrison under Franz von Mercy tenaciously resisted until 19 August and Otto Louis only hesitantly...
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Frank Farian (redirect from Franz Reuther)
Franz Reuther (18 July 1941 – 23 January 2024), known professionally as Frank Farian, was a German record producer and singer who founded the 1970s disco-pop...
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Weissenhorn and married Baroness Claudia von Mercy, the daughter of the Bavarian field marshal Franz von Mercy. Otto Heinrich studied at Ingolstadt and...
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(Brussels 1863) A. von Arneth and A. Geoff roy, Correspondances secretes de Marie Therese avec le comte de Mercy (Paris 1874) A. von Arneth and J. Flammermont...
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"France" and "Weimar". The desperately fought battle of Freiburg against Franz von Mercy's Bavarians (3, 5 and 9 August 1644) proved the chief event of the first...
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assault on the city in 1643 resulted in a French occupation until Franz von Mercy's Imperial-Bavarian army recaptured it in 1644. As a result of the Truce...
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Petrasch (redirect from Von Petrasch Family)
the prisons, awaiting for his rescue or exchange. Mercy and Eugene of Savoy sent Colonel Baron von Neipperg to conclude a peace between Austria and Venice...
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