Although later recalled back to service with even more authority, his defeat at Lützen, the loss of Regensburg, and, critically, this Bohemian general's rumored negotiations with the Swedes caused his ultimate downfall.
His namesake palace was built by Andrea Spezza and Nicola Sebregondi, and while raised a Protestant, he converted to Catholicism - a fact which is apocryphically described as resulting from his miraculous survival after falling from a window. The lands he confiscated from protestant nobles were combined into his Duchy of Friedland, and later in life, this man was awarded the Duchy of Mecklenburg—a move that, in large part, forced his dismissal at the behest of the German princes. Although later recalled back to service with even more authority, his defeat at Lützen, the loss of Regensburg, and, critically, this Bohemian general's rumored negotiations with the Swedes caused his ultimate downfall. For ten points, name this general of the Thirty Years' War whose assassination formed the subject of a series of plays by Schiller.
His namesake palace was built by Andrea Spezza and Nicola Sebregondi, and while raised a Protestant, he converted to Catholicism - a fact which is apocryphically described as resulting from his miraculous survival after falling from a window.
Albrecht von {Wallenstein} [or Albrecht von {Waldstein}; or Albrecht z {Valdštejna}]