Adam Albert von Neipperg

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Adam Albert Count of Neipperg

Count Adam Albert von Neipperg (born April 8, 1775 in Vienna , † February 22, 1829 in Parma ) was an Austrian general and statesman.

Life

Neipperg was a scion of the Counts of Neipperg, who had been in the Habsburg service since his grandfather Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg . His father was Count Leopold Joseph von Neipperg (1728–1792). Adam Albert was educated at the Hohen Karlsschule in Stuttgart in 1789 and 1790 and entered Austrian military service in the winter of 1790/91. He served in the French Revolutionary War in the Rhine Army at Jemappes and Neerwinden , was seriously wounded on September 14, 1794 near Doelen , took part in the attack on the Mainz lines (October 1795) and then distinguished himself in Italy from 1796-1801 near Mantua , in Tyrol , at Cassano d'Adda , Novi, Marengo and at Mincio. In 1805 he fought in Italy. In 1809 he served in the corps of Archduke Ferdinand and advanced to major general .

From 1811 to 1813 he was the Austrian envoy to the Swedish court. In 1813 he fought at the head of a brigade near Reichenberg , near Stolpen and in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig . He was promoted to Lieutenant Field Marshal on October 20, 1813 . In December he went to Naples , where he signed the alliance treaty with King Murat on January 14th, 1814 , entered Lombardy on the 23rd and received a division in the Pavia area on June 20th .

Adam Albert von Neipperg with his first wife Theresia and their sons Alfred and Ferdinand, painting around 1810

Adam Albert von Neipperg was first married to Countess Theresia Pola de Treviso, who died after giving birth to the eldest son Alfred von Neipperg and three other sons.

  1. Alfred von Neipperg (1807-1865). His first marriage was to Countess Josefini Grisoni and, in 1840, his second marriage to Princess Marie Friederike Charlotte von Württemberg; he remained childless.
  2. Ferdinand von Neipperg (1809–1843)
  3. Gustav von Neipperg (1811–1850)
  4. Erwin von Neipperg (1813-1897). The youngest son continued the line of the Counts of Neipperg .

Since July 1814, as a 39-year-old who, thanks to his outward appearance and excellent manners, his education, language skills and musicality, impressed his surroundings and had great success with women, on the orders of the emperor, he accompanied the 23-year-old Marie-Louise of Austria , the former Empress of France and wife of Napoléon Bonaparte , in the baths of Aix-les-Bains and on her travels through Switzerland. In 1815 he represented the interests of this princess and the duchy of Parma ruled by her at the Congress of Vienna . On March 29, 1815, he was appointed to their chief stable master and high commander of the troops of Parma. After the war broke out again in the spring of 1815 between Austria and Naples , he took command of the 1st Army Corps, entered Naples on May 21, and was in command there as military governor until June 25, whereupon he took command of the Austrian army French departments of Gard , Ardèche and Hérault took over. He then resumed his duties as the chief stableman of the Archduchess Marie-Louise and was appointed by her in 1816 as chief steward and minister of foreign affairs and in the following year by Emperor Franz I as the Imperial and Royal Secret Council.

At that time he already had a close relationship with Marie-Louise. Because of his lost eye, which he covered with an eye patch, he was known as the blind cupid . Marie-Louise bore him three children, two of whom reached adulthood:

  1. Albertine of Montenuovo (1817 Parma – 1867)
  2. Wilhelm Albrecht von Montenuovo (1821 Parma – 1895)
  3. NN

In 1821 Adam Albert von Neipperg and Duchess Marie-Louise married in an morganatic marriage . The children founded the line of the Princes of Montenuovo , raised to the Austrian prince status in 1864. Count Adam Albert von Neipperg had had a hereditary mandate in the Württemberg Chamber of Notaries since 1819 , but never appeared there in person.

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SURNAME Neipperg, Adam Albert from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neipperg, Adam Albert Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian general and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1829
Place of death Parma