4. Enno "Brandrok" Tronds
Nicknamed "Brandrok" (meaning "smoke" and "fire") during his mercenary years, Enno Tronds got an early start in the military as a teenage soldier in Denmark during the raging Battle of Sievershausen in 1553. A soldier who was a key figure in the battle
between the rival Habsburgs and Turks, Enno Tronds fought as a mercenary in the Battle of St. Quentin for the Spanish Armada before offering his services to Denmark's Frederick II during the Northern Seven Years' War. Dismayed that the king refused his request to be promoted, Enno Tronds fled the country and lived as an impostor count, a continual schemer and a prison inmate throughout Europe before finally being executed in 1572.