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ALDRINGER (ALTRINGER, ALDRINGEN), JOHANN

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 537 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALDRINGER (ALTRINGER, ALDRINGEN), JOHANN  , COUNT voN (1588-1634),
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Austrian soldier, was born at Diedenhofen (Thionville) in
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Lorraine . After travelling as page to a nobleman in France, Italy and the
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Netherlands, he went to the university of Paris . In ,6o6 he entered the service of Spain, in which he remained until 1618, when he joined the imperial army . Here he distinguished himself in the field and in the
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cabinet . Made a colonel in 1622, two years later he was employed on the council of war and on
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diplomatic missions . At the
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bridge of
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Dessau in 1626 he performed very distinguished service against Ernst von
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Mansfeld . He and his constant comrade Matthias Gallas (q.v.) were ennobled on the same day, and in the course of the
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Italian
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campaign of 163o the two
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officers married the two daughters of Count d'Arco . Aldringer served as Count Rambold Collalto's major-general in this campaign and was
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present at the taking of Mantua . The
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plunder of the duke of Mantua's treasures made Gallas and Aldringer wealthy men . Back in Germany in 1 631, he served after
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Breitenfeld as Tilly's artillery
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commander, and, elevated to the dignity of count of the
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Empire, he was present at the
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battle of the
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Lech, where he was wounded . When Tilly died of his wounds Aldringer succeeded to the command . Made field-marshal after the assault of the Alte Veste near Nuremberg, at which he had been second in command under Wallenstein, duke of
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Friedland (with whom he was a
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great favourite), he was next placed at the head of the corps formed by Maximilian I. of Bavaria to support Wallenstein .

In this

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post his tact and diplomatic ability were put to a severe test in the preservation of harmony between the two dukes . Finally Count Aldringer was won over by the court party which sought to displace the too successful duke of Friedland . After Wallenstein's
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death Aldringer commanded against the Swedes on the Danube, and at the defence of
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Landshut he fell (
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July 22, 1634) . His great possessions descended to his
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sister, and thence to the
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family of Clary and Aldringen . See Brohm, Johann von Aldringen (Halle, 1882), and Hermann Hallwich, Johann von Aldringen (
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Leipzig, 1885) ; also Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, s.v . Gallas, correcting earlier biography of Aldringer in the same
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work .

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I do not know why people persist in making Aldringen a native son of Thionville. His father Leonard lived in the suburb of Grund in Luxembourg and we know of him signing documents for the justice of Bonnevoie, His father is just known to have done some business transaction in Thionville,
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