Das Tillylied - Thirty Years’ War Song

The Tillylied - or “Tilly Song“ was written in the aftermath of the Siege of Magdeburg, and became quite popular with the forces of the Catholic League, led by Johann Tserclaes, the Count of Tilly, the “Iron Monk“. The Thirty Years War was a long-lasting clash of mainly Catholic and Protestant forces that struggled for the status of religion within the Holy Roman Empire. It later involved other forces that tried to exploit the political instability for their own gains, such as France, Sweden, Russia and th