9 January 1658 (aged 64) Powitzko, Habsburg Silesia (now Powidzko, Poland)
Buried
Prausnitz, Habsburg Silesia
Allegiance
Holy Roman Empire
Rank
Generalfeldmarschall
Battles/wars
Thirty Years War
Battle of Stadtlohn (1623)
Battle of Breitenfeld (1631)
Siege of Kaiserslautern (1635)
Siege of Magdeburg (1636)
Battle of Wittstock (1636)
Battle of Vlotho (1638)
Siege of Dorsten (1641)
Battle of Tuttlingen (1643)
Battle of Jankau (1645)
Second Northern War
Siege of Kraków (1657)
Melchior Graf von Gleichen und Hatzfeldt (Westerwald, 20 October 1593 – Powitzko, 9 January 1658) was an Imperial Field Marshal. He fought in the Thirty Years' War first under Albrecht von Wallenstein and Matthias Gallas, then received an independent command in Westphalia. Usually successful with a smaller corps on this secondary front and victorious at Vlotho and Dorsten, he lost at Wittstock and Jankau in his brief intermezzos as commander of major armies.
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