Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim

Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (May 29, 1594 – November 17, 1632), field marshal of the Holy Roman Emperor in the Thirty Years' War, was born at the little town of Pappenheim on the Altmühl, in Bavaria, the seat of a free lordship of the empire, from which the ancient family to which he belonged derived its name.

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• Kriegsschriften von baierischen Officieren I. II. V. (Munich, 1820);
• Hess, Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (Leipzig, 1855);
• Ersch and Grüber, Allgem. Encyklopädie, III. II (Leipzig, 1838);
• Wittich, in Allgem. deutsche Biographie, Band 25 (Leipzig, 1887), and works there quoted.