Ladislav Velen von Zerotein (December 1579-April 1638) was a Moravian nobleman who served as commander of Troppau during the Bohemian Revolt.
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Ladislav Velen von Zerotein was born to the noble Zerotein family of Moravia, and he was trained and educated by guardians devoted to humanism before studying at Calvinist universities. From 1609 to 1612, he served as Captain of Olmutz, and he became the regional judge in 1619. He became a radical Protestant in the Moravian parliament, and he helped the Bohemian Revolt to spread to Moravia. After the Battle of White Mountain, his fortune was confiscated and he was sentenced to death in absentia, and he fled to the Netherlands and served as a commander in Ernst von Mansfeld's army. In 1634, he became commander-in-chief of the Swedish occupation force in Silesia during the Thirty Years' War, and, after the Swedes were defeated, he retired to Poznan, where he died in 1638.