Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, a Bavarian General who fought in several wars, for whom the SMS Von der Tann was named
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The Army of the Loire, under General D'Aurelle de Paladines, surprised a Bavarian army under Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen at the village of Coulmiers, west of Orléans.
Effectively all the villages within the Ban de la Roche became Protestant when the lands were sold by the Rathsamhausen family to the German Count Palatine, George John of Veldenz in the sixteenth century.