Albert Octave t'Serclaes de Tilly

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Coat of arms of the t'Serclaes de Tilly family

Albert Octave t'Serclaes de Tilly (born December 22, 1646 in Brussels , † September 3, 1715 in Barcelona ) was a Spanish councilor and field marshal , viceroy of Navarre , Aragon and Catalonia .

Life

origin

Albert Octave M. de Montigny ( Montignies-sur-Sambre at Charleroi ) and Tilly , came from the old Brussels since 1622 rich Count Gender t'Serclaes de Tilly. His father Johann (II.) Werner t'Serclaes de Tilly, Lord of Montigny etc., heir Seneschal of the County of Namur († 1669), was Jacob's son a nephew of the general of the Thirty Years War Johann Tilly , and his mother Dorothea, Granddaughter of Count Johanns von Ostfriesland-Falkenburg , was a great-granddaughter of Emperor Maximilian I. Albert's mother Marie Françoise was a daughter of Jean de Montmorency , and since 1630 Prince of Robecq . The general Claude Frédéric t'Serclaes van Tilly (1648–1723) was his brother.

Act

Seal of the Prince with Order of the Golden Fleece and Grand Crown (1714)

Albert entered Spanish service at an early age, became adjutant general in the Netherlands , then commanding en chief of the Liège troops and chamberlain . For his services, the Spanish King Charles II (who, like Albert, was a great-great-great-grandson of Emperor Maximilian I) raised him to prince in Madrid on December 22, 1693 and appointed him general of his entire army in the Netherlands.

After Charles II's death, Prince Albert Octave served his successor Philip V from the French house of Bourbon-Anjou, who called him to Spain and entrusted the command of a Spanish corps . In 1702 the king accepted the prince into the Order of the Golden Fleece . In the War of Spanish Succession in 1704, Tilly took part in the campaign to Portugal under Berwick and led the wing of the Franco-Spanish army. At the end of 1704 and 1705 he commanded only Extremadura . In 1705 the king made him grande first class. Shortly afterwards, King Tilly bestowed the unprecedented high honor of sitting in the royal chapel directly behind the king. This aroused resentment among the other grandees of the kingdom, whereupon some felt the wrath of the king.

After Vendôme's death in 1712, Tilly received the supreme command of the entire Franco-Spanish army, but at the same time from King Philip the order not to take risks, which is why he quietly watched the siege of Girona by Starhemberg until Berwick approached with a French army and Girona from the Occupation freed. Thereupon Tilly became viceroy of Navarre, Aragon and Catalonia.

family

Coat of arms of the Dukes de T'Serclaes de Tilly, Grandees of Spain

He was married in his first marriage since 1676 to Countess Marie Madeleine de Longueval de Buquoy († 1679), daughter of the Spanish governor of the county of Hainaut , Grandes of Spain, Karl Albert de Longueval , Count of Buquoy.

He entered into a second marriage with Alexandrine de Baqc (Back), the daughter of a Spanish nobleman. However, the legitimacy of this marriage, and consequently of its descendants, was doubtful.

The prince had one last marriage in 1712, with his niece, Countess Marie Madeleine Therese Françoise t'Serclaes de Tilly († 1727).

progeny

From the first marriage there were two sons and a daughter, but they died before him.

With Alexandrine de Baqc he had a daughter, Countess Albertine (Doña Albertina), who was born in Brussels in 1703 and who was only awarded the rank of Princess de T'Serclaes-Tilly by a Spanish decree in 1734 . The later dukes T'Serclaes de Tilly of the house of Perez de Guzman descend from her.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Friedrich Gauhe: Genealogisch-historical Adelslexion , 1719, pp. 2027 ff.
  2. ^ Johann Jakob Schmauss: Curieuses Bücher-Cabinet: Introducing the life of King Philippi V. , 1713, p. 821
  3. ^ André de Guzman: Mémoire et consultation sur la légitimé de la princesse Albertine de T'Serclaes-Tilly , 1784. ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Philippe Antoine Merlin: Répertoire universel et raisonné de jurisprudence , Volume 17, Brussels 1827, p. 329
  5. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch , Volume 1, 3rd Section C, Nuremberg 1893, p. 300.
personal data
SURNAME Tilly, Albert Octave t'Serclaes de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tilly, Albertus Octavius ​​t'Serclaes de; Principe de Tserclaes y de Tilly, Don Alberto Octavio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish war councilor and field marshal general, viceroy of Navarre, Aragon and Catalonia
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1646
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1715
Place of death Barcelona