Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim

Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (1594–1632), a Bavarian nobleman who converted to Catholicism in 1614, became an imperial cavalry general in the Thirty Years' War. He gained experience of cavalry warfare in Polish service and was left for dead at the White Mountain in 1620. He ruthlessly crushed the Upper Austrian peasant revolt in 1626.

Made an imperial count in 1628, he helped storm Magdeburg in 1631 and, after Breitenfeld, covered the imperial retreat. Recalled to Wallenstein's army, he fell mortally wounded leading his cavalry at Lützen on 16 November 1632 and died soon afterwards.