Joachim Andreas von Schlick

Who was Joachim Andreas von Schlick?

Joachim Andreas von Schlick, Count of Passaun and Weißkirchen was one of the leaders of the Protestant estates general in Bohemia. He was executed in Prague in 1621. He now rests in the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Most

Youth

He studied at the University of Jena, where he worked for several years as its rector, and worked for nine years at the Dresden court as an educator Saxon princes.

Uprising

In the negotiations the rebellious Czech state was involved since 1608, was he convinced Silesia and Lusatia to the Bohemian revolt added. He was one of the leading representatives Lutheran wing of the rebel states. During the Battle of White Mountain Regiment commanded Moravian German mercenaries, as is sometimes erroneously stated. / / Moravian Regiment commanded by his relative, Colonel Count Heinrich von Schlick, who experienced great kariéru.Stal later imperial Field Marshal, president of the Vienna court martial board and died in the year 1650. / /

During the reign of Matthias von Habsburg in 1611, became a royal marshal. Then from the "Winter King" Frederick of the Palatinate, to whose election has contributed, received the Office of the earth sudího. And the lantfojtství in margraviate Upper Lusatian. He participated in the Third Prague defenestration was probably one of her executors.