Alois Baldiron

Alois Baldiron (* unknown; † January 1632 ) was commander-in-chief of the Spanish-Habsburg troops during the Graubünden turmoil .

Alois Baldiron came from the Fiemme Valley in Trentino . In 1596 he entered the Habsburg service. In October 1621, as commander-in-chief of the Spanish-Habsburg troops in the service of the Austrian Archduke Leopold V , he invaded the Münstertal with 8,000 men from Vinschgau , crossed the Ofen Pass and occupied the Engadin , Prättigau , Chur and Maienfeld .

Baldiron's attempt in April 1622 to forbid the exercise of the Protestant faith led to the Prättigau War . Baldiron was trapped in Chur and capitulated. He received free retirement and retired to Chiavenna . In September 1622 he returned with a regiment of 10,000 men and again conquered the Lower Engadine, Davos and the Prättigau from the Münstertal in a second bloody campaign; numerous villages were reduced to rubble. After the Lindau Treaty of September 30, 1622, in which the Lower Engadine and most of the Ten Court League became Austrian subjects, Baldiron left Graubünden in December 1622.

He settled in Moravia , where he was able to acquire property for the Habsburgs due to his military services. On 30 July 1630 he was Emperor Ferdinand II. In the realm baron conditions applicable. Baldiron was married to Meta Clara von Stralendorff , a daughter of Freiherr Leopold von Stralendorf .

Web links

• Marco Jorio: Baldiron, Alois. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Baldiron's brutal destruction march of August 31, 1622 through the Lower Engadine

literature

• Rudolf Olaf Tönjachen : Baldiron and the three Rhaetian leagues , Samaden 1930

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JV Polišenský (1971). The Thirty Years War. University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles. Lindau on Lake Constance, not Lindau ZH .
2. ↑ Moravian nobility (PDF; 3.2 MB)