Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Spain, i te wa o te whakawhirinaki i muri i tana wikitoria nui ohorere i
I hangaia e Nordlingen i te tau 1634, he mahere mo nga mahi nui i Tiamana hei whakamutu i te pakanga ki nga Porotetani i reira me Netherlands; ko enei mahere kei roto ko Thomas e arahi ana i tetahi ope i Westphalia, i raro i te whakahau a te Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, teina o Philip IV. Kaore he mea i puta mai i tenei, engari i te tau 1635, i te wa i whakapaohotia ai e Parani te pakanga ki Spain (war Franco-Spanish o 1635-59), i mahi a Thomas i raro i a Ferdinand i te Netherlands Spanish: i whakawhiwhia ki a ia he ope iti (e 8,500, 13,000 ranei) i tukuna atu ki nga ope French kua anga whakamua ki Luxembourg, ko ana whakahau ki te tirotiro i a raatau, ki te aukati ranei i a raatau mai i te whakauru atu ki te ope taua a Dutch. I te 22 o Mei 1635 i Les Avins, ki te tonga o Huy, i te mea ko te episekopo o Liège, i hinga ia e te ope French i whakahaua e Breezé me Chatillon. I kaha ia ki te whakakotahi i nga toenga i Namur, katahi ka hoki ki muri i mua i nga ope French me Dutch, he nui ake te tokomaha; ana pea i mahi ia i te toenga o te pakanga me Ferdinand. I te mutunga o te tau, ka tae mai te rerenga a Charles IV, Duke o Lorraine ki Brussels ka tutaki ki a Thomas; akene i hangaia e raatau he marae honohono, ana ka uru a Thomas ki nga whakataetae i whakaritea e te Duke. (I roto i tenei pakanga Franco-Spanish, i kukume a Piedmont ki te whawhai i te taha o nga French, ahakoa i te tuatahi i karo i te whakapuakanga o te pakanga; no reira, i whawhai a Thomas ki tana ake whenua.)