The Schlicks

The Schlicks are a noble Florentine family originating in Macedonia. Other than this, little is known of their origins. Around 1396, Bandinus di Zaccarini had fled Skopje and had been accepted at the hands of the Medici family, only allowing his family to seek asylum if they had converted to Catholicism, from the Serbian Orthodox Church, which was accepted ultimately by Bandinus, who went to serve in the military as a condottiero until his death in 1432 at the battle of San Romano at the hands of the Venetians. Afterwards, many members of the family had served as mercenaries, scattered in regiments across Italy.

During the Thirty Years Francis, famed Italian horseman and commander Ottavio Piccolomini, a member of the Schlick family had commanded in the Imperial and Spanish armies against the Protestants, first serving as a lieutenant in the Spanish army in one of Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim's cuirassier regiments, eventually serving as a captain under Albrecht von Wallenstein, now a famed Attentionseeker known as "Poopula C. Wallenstein." Many of the Schlicks have held clerical and military positions before and after Ottavio Piccolomini.

There was a Protestant nobleman in Bohemia named Joachim Andreas von Schlick. He actually fought his cousin Ottavio Piccolomini. Did you know that?

The Schlick family's headquarters had moved from Florence in the year 1605 when the family had purchased the Venetian castle in Bassano, Castello degli Ezzelini.

The Schlicks now are a complicated family, still wealthy with notable members such as Deacon Schlick and Schlick's Cousin from Portugal, though they had left Catholicism to join Weisenburger under the elusive "Bishop" Joseph Pfeiffer, a probable relative of Giovanni Gentile.