Max Piccolomini

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Max Piccolomini is a literary character from Schiller's Wallenstein , a fictional colonel and son of Octavio Piccolomini . In the middle part of the trilogy, The Piccolomini , father and son play the leading roles. The characters are historical, but their roles are fictional.

Max is portrayed by Schiller as a kind of foster son of Wallenstein, the latter - before his apostasy from the emperor - commissioned to bring Wallenstein's daughter Thekla from Austria to Bohemia. They fall in love and hope that Wallenstein will agree to the marriage. Wallenstein, however, refuses the connection because he wants to marry his only daughter royally, since he already sees her as the heir to the crown of Bohemia, which he hopes to achieve with the help of the Swedes. When Octavio goes to join the emperor and asks his son to come with him, the latter hesitates. Wallenstein and his officers try to keep him on their side. Torn to and fro and ultimately with no hope of Thekla, Max finally throws himself into a daring attack on a camp of the Rheingrafen , who is in Swedish service, and falls with all his cavalry. Thekla escapes from Eger in the night immediately before her father is murdered to make a pilgrimage to Max's grave and die there.

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Though a literary figure, Octavio Piccolomini, the military leader of the Thirty Years' War , actually had a nephew named Joseph Silvio Max Piccolomini , but at the time of the events in 1634 he was only eleven years old (and Wallenstein's daughter only eight). Later he was a colonel in an imperial cuirassier regiment . Octavio Piccolomini adopted this and initially made him his heir. However, Max died while Octavius ​​was still alive on March 6, 1645 in the battle of Jankau .