Benvenuto Sigmund by Petazzi

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Benvenuto Sigmund Graf von Petazzi di San Servolo (born January 17, 1699 , † December 25, 1784 ) was an officer in the Austrian service. He came from an influential noble family from Trieste who had been raised to the rank of count in 1632.

Military career

Petazzi served mostly on the Croatian military border . In 1746, after he had previously been captain of the Sichelburg area , he became the first commander of the Szluin regiment established in 1746 , the "Petazzi Carlstädter-Szluin border guards"; In 1769 the regiment was named Infantry Regiment No. 63 of 1746/5 "Grenzer" . On September 20, 1746, Petazzi was promoted to general field sergeant major. On January 25, 1757 he became Lieutenant Field Marshal , and on April 19, 1764 he was promoted to Feldzeugmeister with the rank of October 19, 1761 .

Religious oppression of the Orthodox Serbs

In 1755 Petazzi became the commander of the Karlovac Generalate on the Croatian military border. In this position he made a name for himself, among other things, by attempting to curtail and undermine the religious rights of the Serbs by all means available to him, contrary to the documented Serbian national privileges, even after their express confirmation by the Empress-Queen Maria Theresa . Even several warning letters to Petazzi and a renewed confirmation of the Serbian national privileges by Maria Theresa in 1759 did not induce him to give in. This led to such unrest among the Serbian population that the Metropolitan of Sremski Karlovci , Pavle Nenadovic (1749–1768), spiritual head of the Orthodox Serbs of the Habsburg Empire , personally traveled to Vienna in 1762 in order to put an end to the abuses and religious ones there To request prosecutions.

Brlog-Grad Castle

In 1740 Petazzi bought the Brlog-Grad estate on the Kupa, about 1 km west of Kamanje in Croatia , made it his residence, and had it expanded and converted into a lavish baroque palace by 1756 . After his death, the property came to the Counts of Keglević through his heir, Anna Maria .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schwicker, Political History of the Serbs in Hungary , pp. 217-219; Schwicker, On the history of the church union ... , pp. 291–343.

literature

  • Johann Heinrich Schwicker: On the history of the ecclesiastical union in the Croatian military frontier (pp. 275–400; especially pp. 291–343), in: Imperial Academy of Sciences, Archive for Austrian History, Volume 52, Vienna, 1875 (at Google Books )

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personal data
SURNAME Petazzi, Benvenuto Sigmund from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petazzi di San Servolo, Benvenuto Sigmund von; Petazzi, Benvenuto by; Petazzi di San Servolo, Benvenuto Sigmund Count of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian general
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1699
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1784