Wasu masana tarihi suna la'akari da lokacin daga 1621 zuwa 1625 a matsayin wani ɓangare na Yakin Shekaru talatin, suna kiransa "lokacin Palatinate". Tare da mummunan nasarar da sojojin Protestant suka yi a White Mountain da kuma tashi daga yarima na Transylvania, Bohemia mafi girma ya kasance mai zaman lafiya. Duk da haka, yakin da ke cikin Palatinate ya ci gaba: Shahararrun shugabannin mercenary <unk> kamar, musamman, Count Ernst von Mansfeld <unk> ya taimaka wa Frederick V don kare ƙasashensa, Upper da Rhine Palatinate. Wannan lokaci na yakin ya ƙunshi ƙananan fadace-fadace, mafi yawanci kewaye da sojojin Imperial da na Mutanen Espanya suka yi. Mannheim da Heidelberg sun fadi a 1622, kuma Frankenthal an canja shi a karshe bayan shekaru biyu, don haka ya bar Palatinate a hannun Mutanen Espanya.
Sojojin na daular da na Spain.