With the aid of the man who had gained notoriety as the instigator of the Bohemian insurrection (i.e., the rebellion of Bohemia`s Protestant high nobility against their elect King who happened to be an ardent Papist), Count Matthias v. Thurn who was every bit as inept as a political schemer as he had proven himself to be as a military leader.. . .
Having luckily eluded the vengeance of the Catholic Emperor when the Bohemian rebellion collapsed, this downright uniquely inept man managed to talk the fugitive Prince-Elector of the Rhine (the fabulous "Winter King" of Bohemia) into employing him as his chief counsellor.
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