Arnold Franz von Tornaco

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Arnold Franz von Tornaco (also Arnaud François de Tornaco , imperial baron since 1738 , born June 5, 1696 in Aachen , † June 29, 1766 in Dendermonde ), was an imperial-royal officer, most recently in the rank of lieutenant general field marshal , and initially governor of the princes County Mömpelgard , then from Dendermonde, as well as envoy in Paris .

Life

origin

Family coat of arms of those of Tornaco

Arnold Franz von Tornaco came from a Luxembourg noble family. The family line begins with Ludolf de Tornaco, who lived as a lawyer in Liège . He was the grandfather of Lambert (* 1596), who was councilor and secretary of the Elector of Cologne . His grandson was Theodor Claudius von Tornaco, cellar master of the Münsterstift , who received Aachen citizenship through his marriage . Arnold Franz was the sixth of his ten children. While at least two of his six brothers became older lawyers and the youngest embarked on a spiritual career, Arnold and a younger brother embarked on a military career.

Act

In 1728 he was a captain in the Wurmbrandt regiment . For the House of Württemberg , as envoy in Paris, he brought the Mömpelgard inheritance matter to an end in its favor, for which he received the governor's office over the dignified county of Mömpelgard.

The increased coat of arms above the portal of the Sassenheim Palace, awarded to Tornaco in the Baron Letter in 1738

With the rank of imperial colonel , governor of the duchy county of Mömpelgard and authorized minister at the French court, as well as knight of the Württemberg Order of Saint Hubert , he and his brother Theodor Wilhelm, lord of Lens-St. Servais , on January 23, 1738 in Vienna the imperial baron status with improvement of the coat of arms . In the same year, 1739, the Baron von Tornaco asked for acceptance into the Swabian Imperial Knighthood . Also in 1739 Tornaco was accepted as the 28th knight in the ducal-Weimar falcon order . Tornaco served the emperor in 1739 in the Swabian and Franconian Empire ; he was given command of some auxiliary troops against the Ottoman army . For this he became governor of Dendermonde in 1749 , which position he held until his death. In 1745 he was entrusted with important diplomatic business at the Electoral Palatinate court.

Sassenheim Castle ( Sanem ), which Tornaco bought in 1753

In 1753 he acquired the Sassenheim Palace in Luxembourg . 1754 appointed him emperor for General Feldzeugmeister . Arnold Franz von Tornaco ended his military career with the rank of Imperial Field Marshal Lieutenant . At times he was also the imperial commandant of Rheinfelden .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hermann Friedrich Macco, Aachener Wappen und Genealogien 2 , Aachen, 1907, pp. 195 - 196
  2. ↑ a b GHdA , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 2003, p. 488
  3. ^ A b Friedrich Carl Gottlob Hirsching, Historisch-literarisches Handbuch , Volume 14, Edition 2, 1810, p. 205
  4. ^ Austrian State Archives : Imperial Barons for Theodor Wilhelm and Arnold Franz von Tornaco, 1738
  5. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Dept. General State Archives Karlsruhe, 123 No. 812, application for acceptance by Arnold Franz Freiherrn v. Tornaco in the Swabian Knighthood (source reference)  in the German Digital Library
  6. ^ A b Continued new genealogical-historical news , Volume 72, 1767, p. 283
  7. ↑ Bernhard Peter, Gallery: Photos of beautiful old coats of arms No. 1109: Sanem (Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette)
  8. ↑ Michael Ranft , New genealogical-historical news , Volume 49, 1756, p. 119
  9. ↑ Genealogical-Schematic State Handbook , Frankfurt am Main 1747, p. 99
personal data
SURNAME Tornaco, Arnold Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tornaco, Arnold Franz Freiherr von (full name); Tornaco, Arnold Franz Baron von; Tornaco, Arnold von (short form); Tornaco, Arnaud François de (French form of name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION imperial high officer, governor and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1696
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1766
Place of death Dendermonde