GALLAS, MAATTHIAS, COUNT OF CAMPO, DUKE OF LUCERA (1584-1647), Austrian soldier, first saw service in Flan ders, and in Savoy with the Spaniards, and subsequently joined the forces of the Catholic League as captain. On the general out break of hostilities in Germany, he distinguished himself, at Stadt lohn (1623) and elsewhere. In 163o he was serving as General Feldwachtmeister under Collalto in Italy, and was mainly instru mental in the capture of Mantua. Made count of the Empire for this service, he returned to Germany for the campaign against Gustavus Adolphus, covered Bohemia against the Swedes in 1631-1632, and served at the Alte Veste and also at Liitzen against Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, rising to be lieutenant-general in the Emperor's own army. He was one of the chief conspirators against Wallenstein, and after the tragedy of Eger was appointed to the command of the army which Wallenstein had formed and led. At Nordlingen (Aug. 23, 1634) in which the army of Sweden was almost annihilated, Gallas commanded the victorious Im perialists. In northern Germany, where he commanded against the Swedish general Baner in 1637 and 1638, and in later crises he was unsuccessful. He resigned his command, and died in 1647 at Vienna. His army had earned a reputation as the most cruel and rapacious force even in the Thirty Years' War, and his Merode Briider have survived in the word marauder.