What occurred first, the Battle of Stadtlohn or the birth of Johann Tserclaes?
Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly (Dutch: "Johan t'Serclaes" ; February 1559 – 30 April 1632) was a field marshal who commanded the Catholic League's forces in the Thirty Years' War. He had a string of important victories against the Protestants but was then defeated by forces led by the King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. Along with Duke Albrecht von Wallenstein of Friedland and Mecklenburg, he was one of two chief commanders of the Holy Roman Empire’s forces in the first half of the war.
Battle of Gammelsdorf The Battle of Gammelsdorf (German: "Schlacht von Gammelsdorf" ) circled around the question of who would execute tutelage over the minor children of the late Lower Bavarian Dukes, thus also commanding the tremendous economic power of that region. Their Upper Bavarian cousin, Duke Louis, the later Emperor Louis IV, "the Bavarian", as agreements within the several branches of the Bavarian line of the House of Wittelsbach determined and as the burghers of the Lower Bavarian cities wanted to see it done, or Duke Frederick I of Austria, "the Fair", also Louis' cousin, both having been raised and educated together in Vienna, as the widows and local aristocracy wished?