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Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim was a Bavarian-born field marshal of the Catholic League and the Holy Roman Emperor during the Thirty Years' War. A convert to Catholicism, he became famous as a bold cavalry commander, took part in the sack of Magdeburg in 1631 and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Lützen in 1632. He was the best-known member of the hereditary marshals of Pappenheim.
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