Braida Curassier Regiment
The Braida Cürassier Regiment was a cavalry unit of the imperial army. Colonel Pietro de la Motte was the first regimental owner and commanding officer .
Formation history
- With a patent dated July 6, 1625, the regiment was set up as an Arquebusier regiment with five companies in Bohemia .
- In 1632 the unit was merged with the "Regiment Coronini" and handed over to Colonel Louis Gonzaga .
- 1633: In that year converted into a cuirassier regiment of 10 companies.
- 1642: Five companies were transferred to the "Mislik Regiment".
- 1643: The five companies were transferred back to the regiment
- 1649: Reduced from ten to nine companies
- 1650: The body company of the "Regiment Lützelburg" (Luxembourg) incorporated.
- 1656: Five companies transferred to the "Regiment Capell" in Italy, which was newly established in Spanish service.
- 1657: Part of the "Regiment Rust" was taken over, but the newly formed Dragoon Company was transferred to the "Regiment Spankau".
- 1660: Dissolved and in the -Cürassier Regiment Schmidt incorporated
Regimental owner
- 1616: Colonel Pietro de la Motte
- 1638: Colonel Count von Ferrari
- 1641: Colonel del Monte
- 1632: Colonel / Lieutenant Field Marshal Louis Marchese Gonzaga
- 1658: Colonel Julius (or Julian) Count Braida
Regimental Commanders
- 1625: the owner, Colonel de la Motte
- 1627: the owner, Colonel Graf Ferrari
- 1631: the owner, Colonel Marchese Gonzaga
- 1635: Lieutenant Colonel Peter von Lütteringshausen
- 1638-1642: unknown
- 1642: Colonel Sergeant Khauts (also Cauts or Khausen)
- 1643: Lieutenant Colonel de Bois
- 1645: Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Graf Warfuse (Warfusée)
- 1647: Lieutenant Colonel Count Braida
- 1658: Colonel Count Braida, now the owner
- 1659: Lieutenant Colonel Philip of Saint-Genois
Peace garrisons
After the end of the Thirty Years' War the regiment was garrisoned in Moravia and Silesia between 1649 and 1657 .
Battle calendar
- 1625–1626: Combat activity in the empire without major tasks
- 1627: combat activity in the empire
- 1628: Combat activity with a focus on Bohemia
- 1629–1630: Fighting in Italy near Guastalla and Mantua
- 1631: Fighting on the Upper Rhine
- 1632: Participation in the battle of the Alte Veste
- 1633: Battles in Moravia
- 1634: Participation in the battle of Nördlingen
- 1635: Campaign in Lorraine under General Piccolomini .
- 1636: Campaign in Burgundy under General Gallas
- 1637: Campaign in the Netherlands under General Piccolomini
- 1638: Assigned to General Lamboy's army on the Lower Rhine.
- 1639: Participation in the Battle of Thionville with Piccolomini's army, then transferred to Bohemia
- 1640: In the "Brigade Westphalen" in the main army in Bohemia
- 1641: Skirmishes at Wolfenbüttel and at Woldenberg
- 1642: Fight under Franz Albrecht von Sachsen in the Battle of Schweidnitz , with the main army taking part in the Battle of Breitenfeld .
- 1643–1644: Fights in Upper Hungary, where Lieutenant Colonel du Bois received an imperial letter of thanks for his brave behavior during the retreat from Eperjes .
- 1645: Participation in the Battle of Jankau - here the regimental commander, Lieutenant Colonel Warfuse, was taken prisoner.
- 1646: The regiment was in Bohemia without any major action
- Assigned to the main army, in combat at: 1647 Triebel used
- 1648: Fighting in the Battle of Zusmarshausen
- 1651–1657: The regiment was in Hungary
- 1657: March to Poland , participation in the siege of Cracow
- 1658: Battles in Poland, Mecklenburg , Holstein and Jutland
- 1659: Fights in front of Demmin , skirmishes near Treptow with the conquest of two enemy standards . Parts of the regiment fought in the conquest of the Warnemünde entrenchments.
- 1660: With the army reduction as a result of the Peace of Oliva , the regiment was dissolved in Pomerania with the imperial resolution of August 1660.
Fallen senior officers
The regimental commander, Colonel Sergeant Khauts and the second Colonel Sergeant (name unknown) died in the battle of Breitenfeld in 1642.
literature
- Alphons Freiherr von Wrede “History of the Austro-Hungarian Wehrmacht III. Volume “Verlag Seidel & Sohn - Vienna 1901