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Gerard Herbert

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Sir Gerard Herbert was an English commander during the Eighty Years' War and the Thirty Years' War. He participated in the Siege of Heidelberg (1622)[1] and was defeated and killed by the Imperial-Spanish troops of Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly and Don Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba.[2]

References

  1. ^ Gardiner, Samuel Rawson (2000). History of England from the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the Civil War: 1603-1642. Adegi Graphics. p. 361. ISBN 978-1-4021-8413-0.
  2. ^ Horace Vere (DNB00)