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Bernard of Saxe-Weimar (German: Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar; 16 August 1604 – 18 July 1639) was a German prince and general in the Thirty Years' War. Bernard of Saxe-Weimar Biography. Born in Weimar in the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Bernard was the eleventh son of Johann, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Dorothea Maria of Anhalt.
Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar was the duke of Saxe-Weimar (Sachsen-Weimar), a politically ambitious Protestant general during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48). One of the most successful field commanders of his age, he won a number of important victories over the forces of the Austrian Habsburgs.
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Prince Carl Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (30 May 1792 – 31 July 1862) was a distinguished soldier, who, in 1815, after the congress of Vienna, became colonel of a regiment in the service of the king of the Netherlands.
Saxe-Weimar (German: Sachsen-Weimar) was one of the Saxon duchies held by the Ernestine branch of the Wettin dynasty in present-day Thuringia. The chief town and capital was Weimar . The Weimar branch was the most genealogically senior extant branch of the House of Wettin .
Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar (săks´–wī´mär, zäks´ə-vī´mär), 1604–39, Protestant general in the Thirty Years War, duke of Weimar. Under Ernst von Mansfeld and the margrave of Baden, Bernhard fought against the imperial forces in defense (1622) of the Palatinate.
Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar săksˈ–wīˈmär, zäksˈə-vīˈmär [ key], 1604–39, Protestant general in the Thirty Years War, duke of Weimar. Under Ernst von Mansfeld and the margrave of Baden, Bernhard fought against the imperial forces in defense (1622) of the Palatinate.
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One of the champions of the Protestant cause during the Thirty Years War, Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar had a disastrous start to his military career: in 1622 he was on ... From: Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar in The Oxford Companion to Military History »
