This is a great painting of Tilly which incidentally is the name of my daughter-in-law's dog but I don't think she is a fan of the monk in armour.
Johann Tserclaes Graf von Tilly (Gemälde) - Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
He was very active 400 years ago. Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly - Wikipedia
Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly (Dutch: Johan t'Serclaes Graaf van Tilly; German: Johann t'Serclaes Graf von Tilly; French: Jean t'Serclaes de Tilly; February 1559 – 30 April 1632) was a field marshal who commanded the Catholic League's forces in the Thirty Years' War. From 1620 to 1631, he won an unmatched and demoralizing string of important victories against the Protestants, including White Mountain, Wimpfen, Höchst, Stadtlohn and the Conquest of the Palatinate. He destroyed a Danish army at Lutter and sacked the Protestant city of Magdeburg, which caused the deaths of some 20,000 of the city's inhabitants, both defenders and non-combatants, out of a total population of 25,000.
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