 The most famous is Karel Older of Zierotin (1564–1636), head of the Moravian nobility during the Thirty Years' War, a friend of Henry IV of France and brother-in-law of Albrecht of Wallenstein.Other interesting members were Johan Karl von Zierotin (1719–1776) directeur des spectacles of Frederick II of Prussia and friend of Johann Sebastian Bach, Karel Emanuel of Zierotin (1850–1934), peer of the Austrian Empire and governor of Moravia (1900–1906), and Ladislav Velen of Zierotin (1579–1638), head of the uprising against the Habsburgs.The male line of this family died out in 1985.