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Count Mansfeld (ambiguous) ( - )

With respect to the "Count Mansfield" identified with a Poleaxe in Musaeum Tradescantianum, G. M. Wilson in Tradescant's Rarities notes that there a number of possible candidates:

Count Peter Ernst I (1517-1604)

Ernst Mansfeld (c.1580-1626), son of Count Peter Ernst

Albrecht III, Count of Mansfeld (1480-1560)

Philipp Ernst, Count or Mansfeld (1560-1631)

Karl, Prince of Mansfeld (1543-95)

or any number of members of the various branches of the Mansfeld family (203) Relationships: Count Mansfeld (ambiguous) was a same person as? (uncertain) Ernst von Mansfeld (c.1580-1626)

 Linked print sources: as Mentioned or referenced by - Tradescant's Rarities: Essays on the Foundation of the Ashmolean Museum, 1683, with a Catalogue of the Surviving Early Collections .
 References in Documents:
Musaeum Tradescantianum (1656) Count Mansfield's Poleaxe, called Pussacon.
Musaeum Tradescantianum (1656) Ernestus Count Mansfield.