# Count Mansfeld — The Adventurous Simplicissimus character guide

> Count Mansfeld in The Adventurous Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mansfeld

**First appearance:** 0052-xv-of-simplicissimus-life-with-the-troopers-and-what-he-saw-and-learned-among-the-croats

## Who they are

A famous military commander of the early Thirty Years' War.

## In the story

### [Discourses of the Order of the Marauder Brothers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_adventurous_simplicissimus_se/chapters/xi-discourses-of-the-order-of-the-marauder-brothers)

Mentioned in relation to the origin of 'Mansfeld's shoes' and the naming of the Merode-brothers.

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