Nicholas of Maillot de la Treille

Ancestral coat of arms of the Maillot de la Treille family

Nikolaus Hubert Wilhelm Freiherr von Maillot de la Treille (born September 25, 1774 in Jülich ; † August 28, 1834 in Munich ) was Minister of State of the Army ( Minister of War ) of Bavaria from September 30, 1822 to January 31, 1829 .

He was the son of the French nobleman Joseph Maillot de la Treille (1733-1804) and his wife Emerence van Dowe. The father, a military man, had joined the Palatinate electorate with his brother Nicolas Maillot de la Treille (1725–1794) in 1755; the latter as court chaplain and librarian to Elector Karl Theodor in Mannheim .

Nikolaus von Maillot de la Treille entered 1786 in the kurpfalz - Bavarian army one, was in 1792 lieutenant and in 1793 captain . It was promoted to major in 1803, to colonel in 1809, to brigadier and major general in 1813 and finally to lieutenant general in 1824 .

From 1819 Nikolaus von Maillot de la Treille acted as Bavarian plenipotentiary in the military commission of the Bundestag in Frankfurt am Main. From 1822 to 1829 he was Bavarian State Minister of the Army (renamed Minister of War in 1826). In 1830 he and his descendants were by King Ludwig I in the hereditary baron added.

The Minister wore the Grand Cross from the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown , was Commander of the Austrian Leopold Order , Knight of the French Legion of Honor and the Russian Order of St. Vladimir . He was also the owner of the Bavarian Order of Ludwig and the military monument for 1813/1815 .

The baron had been married to Isabelle Freiin von Bongart (1776–1836) since 1802, lived with his family in a palace in Munich built by the architect Jean Baptiste Métivier and was buried in the Old South Cemetery in Munich after his death ; the grave is preserved.

literature

Hans Eggert Willibald von der Lühe: Militair-Conversations-Lexikon , Volume 5, 1836, p. 48 ( digitized version )
Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Volume 6, Leipzig 1865, p. 86 ( digitized version )
Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families , 4th volume, Leipzig 1857, p. 276 ( digitized version )
Entry in Pierer's Universal Lexikon , Volume 10. Altenburg 1860, p. 736 ( online version )
Peter Fuchs: Maillot de la Treille, Nicolas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 708 f. ( Digitized version ). (Biography of the uncle, with details of the family environment)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Allgemeine Preußische Staats-Zeitung No. 125 of October 17, 1822
^ Protocols of the German Federal Assembly , Volume 7, Frankfurt / Main, 1819, page 123, footnote 3; Scan from the source
^ Munich historical studies : Department of Bavarian History, Volume 1, 1955, page 240; Excerpt from the source
^ Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon , Volume 9, page 177, Munich 1840; Scan from the source
^ Website of the palace

personal data
SURNAME	Maillot de la Treille, Nicholas of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Maillot de la Treille, Nikolaus Hubert Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bavarian general and minister of war
DATE OF BIRTH	September 25, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jülich
DATE OF DEATH	August 28, 1834
Place of death	Munich

[1] Allgemeine Preußische Staats-Zeitung No. 125 of October 17, 1822

[2] Protocols of the German Federal Assembly , Volume 7, Frankfurt / Main, 1819, page 123, footnote 3; Scan from the source

[3] Munich historical studies : Department of Bavarian History, Volume 1, 1955, page 240; Excerpt from the source

[4] Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon , Volume 9, page 177, Munich 1840; Scan from the source

[5] Website of the palace