Amaury de Farcy de Saint-Laurent

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Amaury de Farcy de Saint-Laurent (* 1652 in Vitrée in Brittany ; † May 5, 1729 in Ebstorf ) was a lieutenant general of the cavalry from the Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Drost of the Ebsdorf district, commander of the Kalkberg fortress and the city of Lüneburg .

His parents were Francoise de Farcy Seigneur de Saint-Laurent and his wife Claude d'Uzille.

Life

Amaury de Farcy de Saint-Laurent comes from an old family who lived in Vitrée in Brittany in what is now the department of Ille and Vilaine . After the Edict of Nantes , he fled France in 1672 because of his Protestant faith. He came to Kassel via the Hague . He was first court and hunting page in Kassel and came to Celle in 1674 by recommendation of the Oranischer Hof in the service of Duke Georg Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Lüneburg . As an ensign in the Linstow Infantry Regiment, he took part in the war in Hungary in 1685 and 1686 . On his return he was transferred to the cavalry by Lieutenant General Chauvet , under whom he had served. In 1688 he became a major. As such, he was captured with his own regiment on September 18, 1691 in the battle of Leuze in the Netherlands, where the Prince of Waldeck suffered a defeat; but dismissed by the Marshal of Luxembourg , out of consideration for his brave behavior, on his word of honor until further notice. In 1693 he became a lieutenant colonel and in 1694 regimental commander.

With the beginning of the Spanish War of Succession in 1701, the dukes of Hanover and Celle sent a joint auxiliary corps in the pay of the States General to the Netherlands. There Saint-Laurent commanded as brigadier (1702) the cavalry assigned to it. In 1705 he becomes major general. As a rider leader he was named several times with distinction in the course of this war.

In the battle of Ramillies on May 23, 1706, he commanded 18 squadrons on the left wing, which after a hard fight defeated the French- Bavarian cavalry opposing them and contributed significantly to the victory. On this occasion, Marlborough recommended General Saint-Laurent to the Elector for further tasks. He was wounded in the battle of Oudenaarde on July 11, 1708, where he led four Hanoverian regiments under General Natzmer . In the battle of Malplaquet on September 11, 1709 he was the adviser to the young Prince of Auvergne, who commanded 30 squadrons. He was appointed lieutenant general in 1712. After returning home from the War of the Spanish Succession, Lieutenant General de Saint-Laurent only went into the field once. It was in 1719 that Kurhannover had to carry out the Reich execution against Duke Karl Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin on behalf of the Reich . Supported by Russian auxiliaries, the ducal troops faced the troops under the later famous General von Schwerin, who fell as Prussian field marshal near Prague in 1757 , and inflicted a defeat on them on March 6 at Walsmühlen not far from Schwerin. Saint-Laurent was able to compensate for greater consequences with his cavalry. On May 5, 1729 he died in Ebstorf in the Lüneburg region.

family

He was married to Luise Dorothea von Charreard , she was the daughter of the chief hunter Anton von Charreard . He had kidnapped and married her in 1695, when she was engaged as a lady-in-waiting in Celle to one of Lüneburg auf Wathlingen. The couple's only son, Anton Simon, died in 1728 as Rittmeister, while their daughter Eleonore (* 1701; † March 5, 1784) married Major Ludolf Otto von Estorff († 1759) on Barnstedt in 1721 at Gut Barnstädt . Lieutenant General Emmerich Otto August von Estorff is his grandson.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Farcy de Saint-Laurent, Amaury de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Braunschweig-Lüneburg Lieutenant General of the Cavalry; Commander of Kalkberg Fortress and the City of Lüneburg
DATE OF BIRTH 1652
PLACE OF BIRTH Vitrée , Brittany , France
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1729
Place of death Ebstorf , Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Holy Roman Empire