Arnold Franz von Tornaco
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
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.
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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.
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
- ↑ a b c Hermann Friedrich Macco, Aachener Wappen und Genealogien 2 , Aachen, 1907, pp. 195 - 196
- ↑ a b GHdA , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 2003, p. 488
- ^ A b Friedrich Carl Gottlob Hirsching, Historisch-literarisches Handbuch , Volume 14, Edition 2, 1810, p. 205
- ^ Austrian State Archives : Imperial Barons for Theodor Wilhelm and Arnold Franz von Tornaco, 1738
- ^ 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
- ^ A b Continued new genealogical-historical news , Volume 72, 1767, p. 283
- ↑ Bernhard Peter, Gallery: Photos of beautiful old coats of arms No. 1109: Sanem (Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette)
- ↑ Michael Ranft , New genealogical-historical news , Volume 49, 1756, p. 119
- ↑ Genealogical-Schematic State Handbook , Frankfurt am Main 1747, p. 99
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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 |