Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Wallenstein ya yi yaƙi ga Katolika a cikin Protestant Bohemian tawaye na 1618 kuma an ba shi dukiyar da aka kwace daga 'yan tawaye bayan shan kashi a White Mountain
a shekara ta 1620. Jerin nasarorin soja da aka samu a kan Furotesta sun daukaka sunan Wallenstein a kotun Imperial kuma a cikin 1625 ya tara babbar rundunar sojoji 50,000 don ci gaba da batun Imperial. Bayan shekara guda, ya ci Farostatan da yaƙi a Dessau Bridge. Saboda nasarorin da ya samu, Wallenstein ya zama babban sarki Palatine kuma ya sanya kansa mai mulkin ƙasashen Duchy na Friedland a arewacin Bohemia.