Baltasar Marradas (28 November 1560-12 August 1638) was a Spanish nobleman and field marshal who served in the Thirty Years' War.
Biography[]
Baltasar Marradas was born in Valencia, Spain in 1560, and he served in the Knights of St. John on Malta before arriving at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. In 1617, he fought against Venice during the Uskok War, and he commanded a Spanish cavalry regiment during the Bohemian Revolt. He became an Imperial count in 1621, a Field Marshal in 1626, and a Lieutenant General in 1627, and was dismissed in 1632 following failures in Silesia. In 1634, he was one of the masterminds behind the assassination of the untrustworthy mercenary general Albrecht von Wallenstein, and he became commissioner of the army of Bohemia in 1634. He died in 1638.