His great possessions descended to his sister, and thence to the family of Clary and Aldringen.
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After travelling as page to a nobleman in France, Italy and the Netherlands, he went to the University of Paris.
The siege lasted until July 1630, when the city, already struck by a plague, was brutally put to the sack for three days and three nights by troops led by Count Aldringen and Gallas.
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