Alphonse Marie Louis de Saint-Sévérin d'Aragon

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Alphonse Marie Louis comte de Saint-Sévérin d'Aragon (* 1705 ; † 1757 ) was a French diplomat and minister .

Life

St. Sévérin was a member of the noble family of the Counts of Saint-Sévérin d'Aragona, who originally came to France from the Kingdom of Naples .

He was by Louis XV. in 1735 under Foreign Minister Germain Louis Chauvelin to Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary in Sweden appointed and Frederick I. accredited . In 1741, St. Sévérin was recalled and replaced by the Marquis de Lanmary, Marc-Antoine Front de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire .

Correspondence with Frederick the Great is documented from his service . St. Sévérin apparently acted cooperatively under the leadership of Madame de Pompadour . At the peace congress in Aachen in 1748, St. Sévérin and Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg were the most important negotiators. On January 1, 1749, he was awarded the 36th knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit . The British embassy secretary Joseph Yorke attested St. Sévérin in 1750 as Minister of State in 1750 he is said to have maintained good cooperation with the Foreign Minister, which was a unique selling point for French conditions, because otherwise the French ministries were in bitter dispute with one another.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching : Historical literary handbook of famous and memorable people , Volume 4, Leipzig 1799, p. 103
  2. ↑ Œuvres de Frédéric le Grand - Works of Frederick the Great , Digital Edition of the University Library Trier, No. 3058
  3. ↑ a b Eva Kathrin Dade: Madame de Pompadour. Die Mätresse und die Diplomatie , Cologne et al. 2010, pp. 41, 132, 209 u. 218
  4. ^ Harm Klueting : The Reich and its territorial states in the 17th and 18th centuries , Münster, 2004, pp. 178–181
personal data
SURNAME Saint-Sévérin d'Aragon, Alphonse Marie Louis de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saint-Sévérin d 'Aragon, Alphonse Marie Louis comte de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat and minister
DATE OF BIRTH 1705
DATE OF DEATH 1757