Historical reference: Do not rely on this information. It is very old. About this collection
Bernhard, Duke of Weimar, was born in 1604. After signalising himself in the Thirty Years' war on the Protestant side, he became a colonel in the Danish army, joining Gustavus Adolphus in 1631. After the king's death he assumed the chief command. He died suddenly at Neuburg in 1639.