Christoph von Barner

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Christoph von Barner

Christoph von Barner (born February 2, 1633 in Bülow , Mecklenburg-Schwerin , † October 21, 1711 in Speyer ) was Imperial General Feldzeugmeister and supreme commander of the Imperial Artillery .

Christoph von Barner came to the ducal court in Eutin as a page in 1645 and later went into the service of King Friedrich III. from Denmark . In Denmark he went to artillery in 1656 and became a piece lieutenant . In 1660 he entered the service of Emperor Leopold I as a play captain and took part in the campaigns against the Turks. In 1664 he shot through the connecting bridge of the Turkish squadrons in the battle of St. Gotthard in Hungary and thereby decided the victory; In 1676 he was a lieutenant colonel under Count Raimondo Montecuccoli and the Duke of Lorraine and was seriously injured in front of Philippsburg . During the second Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683 he was colonel of the entire artillery and successfully helped to defend the city. As a token of his mercy, he received a gold honor chain with the image of the emperor, weighing 1,000 ducats.

He then took part in the siege and conquest of Gran and Neuhäusel and was appointed sergeant-general in 1686 after the conquest of Oven. In 1687 he was with Mohasz and in 1688 commanded the entire artillery during the capture of Belgrade . In 1689 he stood on the Rhine, in 1691 he took part in the victory of Margrave Ludwig near Slankamen , in 1692 after the conquest of Großwardein he became a real general field master and supreme commander of the Imperial and Royal Artillery. In 1697 he was with Prince Eugene at Zenta . In the War of the Spanish Succession he moved to Italy with Eugene in 1701, fought at Carpi , Chiari and Luzzara , and took part in the conquest of Landau by Emperor Joseph I in September 1704 . In 1706 he was in Alsace with the conquest of the fortresses Drusenheim and Hagenow by Margrave Ludwig. He died on October 21, 1711 in the army headquarters in Speyer and was buried on November 1 in the Martinskirche in Kirchheim unter Teck in Württemberg .

family

He had acquired the Freyholz rule in Swabia . He was married to Elisabeth Euphrosyne von Klenck († 1711). His wife was the daughter of Herbert Balthasar von Klenck from the House of Renckhausen, a ducal colonel of Württemberg, as well as a secret war councilor and chief bailiff von Göppingen .

The couple had a daughter: Maria Anna Euphrosyne (born October 20, 1677, † September 25, 1702). On October 31, 1697, she married Johann August von Pfuel (* 1669), who was kk general sergeant and inspector general of the Swabian cavalry, colonel of the Swabian district and the Duke of Württemberg, captain and commander of the ducal Württemberg bodyguard on horseback and Obervogt von Göppingen. The tomb of Maria Anna Euphrosyne von Pfuel is in the choir of the Martinskirche (Kirchheim unter Teck) .

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personal data
SURNAME Barner, Christoph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berner, Christoph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Imperial General Feldzeugmeister, supreme commander of the Austro-Hungarian artillery
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1633
PLACE OF BIRTH Bülow , Mecklenburg-Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1711
Place of death Speyer