A noble courtier and a gentleman warrior: Some aspects of the creation of the Spinola image

Although the military campaigns of Ambrogio Spinola, chief of staff to the archdukes Albert and Isabella, general and later minister to the kings Philip III and Philip IV of Spain, may seem of little importance against the background of the general evolution of the Eighty Years War, they certainly m...

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1. Verfasser:	Bart De Groof
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Zusammenfassung:	Although the military campaigns of Ambrogio Spinola, chief of staff to the archdukes Albert and Isabella, general and later minister to the kings Philip III and Philip IV of Spain, may seem of little importance against the background of the general evolution of the Eighty Years War, they certainly made a profound impression on contemporary historiography. Spinola was a Genoese nobleman with no real public profile until 1602, when he decided to join his brother Frederick in Flanders, bringing with him thousands of Italian soldiers, at his own expense, to serve the cause of the Spanish king and the archdukes