Baltasar de Marradas et Vique - Church of Our Lady Victorious / Chrám Panny Marie Vítezné (Prague)
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Depicted stone coat of arms of Baltasar de Marradas et Vique, Spanish general, governor of Bohemia and knight of Military Order of Malta, decorates the upper front facade of Church of our Lady Victorious (Chrám Panny Marie Vítezné) in Prague.
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Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 04/07/2017
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Depicted stone coat of arms of Baltasar de Marradas et Vique, Spanish general, governor of Bohemia and knight of Military Order of Malta, decorates the upper front facade of Church of our Lady Victorious (Chrám Panny Marie Vítezné) in Prague.
Baltasar de Marradas with Maltese Order' cross on breastplate and his CoA with Maltese Cross
Church of our Lady Victorious (Chrám Panny Marie Vítezné) is a splendid structure built in the Spanish style. But what brings most pilgrims flocking is the Holy Infant of Prague or Bambini di Praga if you speak Italian. After the Battle of the White Mountain in 1620, which resulted in the victory of the imperial pro-catholic part in the Czech lands, the Emperor Ferdinand II bestowed the church upon the order of Discalced Carmelites and Baltasar de Marradas financed its rebuilding.
Don Baltasar de Marradas et Vique or Maradas (*November 28, 1560 in Valencia - †12 August 1638 in Prague) was a Spanish nobleman, imperial field marshal during the Thirty Years War and governor of Bohemia.
Marradas, a knight of Malta, arrived at the imperial court of Rudolf II in 1599, in the midst of the Long Turkish War. In 1617 during the Uskok War he fought against the Republic of Venice in defense of Gradisca. In the war against the Winter King Frederick V in 1619, he commanded a Spanish cavalry regiment.
Despite the fact that he could show no great military successes, he was raised in 1621 to the rank of an imperial count and provided with plenty of land. In 1626 he became a field marshal and in 1627 was appointed Lieutenant General. Marradas was involved in the negotiations for the dismissal of Wallenstein in 1630 in Regensburg. At Prague in 1631 he retreated without a fight to the advancing troops from Saxony, under Hans Georg von Arnim-Boitzenburg. After further failures in Silesia, he was deposed in 1632 at the instigation of Wallenstein. Marradas 1634 was one of the masterminds behind the murder of Wallenstein. In 1634 Baltasar Marradas was appointed commissioner of the army of Bohemia with an appanage of 800 florins monthly in 30 parts. He died in 1638 as a privy councilor and governor of Bohemia. [wiki]