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    Johan Banér (23 June 1596 – 10 May 1641) was a Swedish field marshal in the Thirty Years' War. Johan Banér was born at Djursholm Castle in Uppland. As...
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  • Banér may refer to: Gustaf Banér, member of the Privy Council of Sweden Johan Banér, Swedish Field Marshal in the Thirty Years' War, son of Gustaf Banér...
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    year at Ingolstadt. Under Johan Banér he served at the Battle of Wittstock on the left wing of the combined army of Banér and Field Marshal Alexander...
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    Hatzfeld and the Saxon Elector John George I. Leslie and Banér commanded two distinct armies: Banér commanded the Swedish main army (huvudarmén), and Leslie...
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  • Elisabet Juliana Banér (née of Erbach; 22 January 1600 – 29 May 1640), was a German noble, married to the Swedish Field Marshal Johan Banér in 1636. She is...
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    Gardie (1583–1652), Field Marshal Gustav Horn (1592–1657), Field Marshal Johan Banér (1596–1641), Field Marshal Per Brahe (1602–1680) Lennart Torstenson (1603–1651)...
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    that of the Swedish field marshal, Johan Banér, and the combined force attacked Magdeburg. To Hamilton's chagrin, Banér wished to retire from the siege due...
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    stone building was likely erected by Nils Eskilsson Banér in the 15th century. Svante Gustavsson Banér commissioned a refurbishment of the castle to its...
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    in Mainz, where by combining his own forces with those led by Horn, Johan Banér, and William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, he assembled around 37,500 men and...
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  • Electorate of Saxony, during the Thirty Years' War. Swedish forces under Johan Banér inflicted a crushing defeat on Rodolfo Giovanni Marazzino (or von Marzin)...
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    Gustafsson Banér and Johan Banér. She never married, and after the death of her mother, she lived with her sister Anna Gustafsdotter Banér (1585-1656)...
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    possible; after discussions with the Swedish diplomats, Gustav Horn and Johan Banér, it was signed at Bärwalde on 23 January 1631. The stated purpose of...
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    temporarily served as headquarters of the Swedish troops under Field Marshal Johan Banér. Here he met with the young nun Anna Margareta von Haugwitz, the later...
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    firepower and saw very limited offensive use; but under the leadership of Johan Banér, who took command after the defeat at Nördlingen, the Gustavian brigade...
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    the Battle of Breitenfeld. Six years later the Swedish field marshal Johan Banér set the town on fire, after its citizens refused to capitulate. During...
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  • King Charles XI (1660–1697) King Charles XII (1697–1718) Field marshal Johan Banér (1634–1641) Carl Gustaf Wrangel(1646–1676) Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck (1676–1685)...
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    Tott 1598–1640 1633 Dodo zu Innhausen und Knyphausen 1583–1636 1634 Johan Banér 1596–1641 1636 Alexander Leslie 1580–1661 1641 Lennart Torstensson 1603–1651...
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  • 1501) 1569 – John of Ávila, Spanish mystic and saint (b. 1500) 1641 – Johan Banér, Swedish field marshal (b. 1596) 1717 – John Hathorne, American merchant...
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    before lack of supplies forced them to retreat. A Swedish army under Johan Banér defeated the Imperials at Wittstock on 4 October, and re-established...
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    by Swedish troops under the commander in chief of the Swedish army, Johan Banér. During the five-month long siege of the fortress, which was in the end...
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  • Sten Svantesson Bielke 1638–1641 Johan Banér 1641–1648 Lennart Torstenson 1648–1650 Carl Gustaf Wrangel 1650–1652 Johan Axelsson Oxenstierna 1652–1661(...
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    evening, Gustavus Adolphus ordered Banér to rally the cavalry of Sperreuth, Stenbock, Soop, Tott, Stålhandske and Wunsch. Banér led them in a broad counter-charge...
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    to push the Swedes from their fortified camp at Danziger Haupt; but Johan Baner, who was in command, repulsed all of their attempts to expel the Swedes...
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    some Swedish historians to have been Johan Banér; but at the time the two commanders had held equal rank: Banér commanding the Swedish Crown Army and...
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    largely operated as separate units, each with their own objectives. While Johan Banér and Hans von Arnim invaded Bohemia, Gustav Horn tried to block the Spanish...
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    Breisach after a long siege. To check the advance of Swedish General Johan Banér, who invaded Bohemia via Saxony in 1639, Ferdinand had to recall Piccolomini's...
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    population were leibeigen serfs). Source: Sten Svantesson Bielke (1633–1638) Johan Banér (1638–1641) Lennart Torstenson (1641–1648) Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1648–1652)...
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    Riksens ständer Gustaf Banér – a senator in the Riksens ständer and father of Gustavus Adolphus' Field Marshal Johan Banér Sten Banér – a senator in the Riksens...
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    Countess Elisabeth Juliane of Erbach (who married the Swedish commander Johan Banér in 1636), she met Carl Gustaf Wrangel in the Swedish military camp. They...
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    General Banér sallied forth with both his light (Finnish and West Gaetlanders) and heavy cavalry (Smalanders and East Gaetlanders). Banér's cavalry had...
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