Siege of Leuven
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The siege of Leuven was an important siege in the Thirty Years' War in which a Franco-Dutch army under Frederick Henry of Orange and the French Marshals Urbain de Maillé-Brezé and Gaspard III de Colig
Relief of Louvain. Oil on canvas by Peter Snayers.
Anthonie Schetz, Baron of Grobbendonck.
Leuven in 1610, by Josse van der Baren. The town still had medieval walls in 1635.
Prince Frederick Henry by Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt
Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand was a Spanish and Portuguese prince, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Cardinal of the Holy Catholic Church, Archduke of Austria, Archbishop of Toledo, and a general duri
Siege of Leuven
…organization and logistics and the spread of sickness among the French, along with the appearance of an Imperial-Spanish relief army of 11,000 under Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand and Ottavio Piccolomini, forced the invading army to lift the siege. This failure allowed the Spanish forces to take the initiative and soon the invaders…
Portrait by Gaspar de Crayer (1584–1669)
Archduke Ferdinand in 1635 depicted by Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens. Collection of John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
"Ferdinand Receives the Keys of the City from the Virgin of Ghent", print after a painting made by Antoon van den Heuvel for the Joyous Entry by the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand into Ghent in 1635
Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria as Actaeon by Diego Velázquez