Emmanuel-François-Joseph de Bavière

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Emanuel Franz Joseph Comte de Bavière, painted in 1707 by Louis de Silvestre

Emmanuel-François-Joseph Comte de Bavière , called Chevalier de Bavière , Marquis de Villacerf (* May 17, 1695 , † July 2, 1747 at Lafelt / Lauffeldt ) was a senior officer and politician under King Louis XV. from France. He was governor in Péronne ( Picardy ).

Life

He was a son of Elector Max Emanuel of Bavaria and Agnes Franziska Countess Arco . Max Emanuel legitimized his son Emmanuel-François-Joseph on November 20, 1695 as Eques Bavariae . After a professional education, he lived in exile from 1706 to 1715 at his father's court. There was an appointment as Comte de Bavière and a transfer of a sum of 400,000 livres , which were covered by the income of the county of Hague .

In the War of the Spanish Succession he was given the regiment d'infanterie de Royal Bavière on January 1, 1709 as regiment holder. He led this in the rank of Mestre de camp until February 20, 1734. In 1719 he was promoted to Brigadier des armes du roi . Appointed Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem by Louis XIV and Grand First Class by the King of Spain in Madrid in 1723 . After his promotion to the Maréchal de camp on February 20, 1734, he gave up active military service and transferred the regimental leadership to his deputy. However, the regiment carried his name until 1740.

His Grand Tour took him to Malta, Florence and Rome.

On April 4, 1725, his father bequeathed him the Bavarian coat of arms and the right “to be naturalized as a Frenchman ” in order to improve his position at the French court. He also owned the Saint-Cloud castle , with an annual pension of 10,000 guilders.

At the Munich imperial court he was accredited (alongside Théodore Chevignard de Chavigny ) as the ambassador of France. In 1742 he was governor of Prague. From 1743 to 1745 he was ambassador at the Viennese imperial court. In 1745 he became governor of Peronne, Roy and Montdidier.

On July 2, 1747 he was killed by a cannonball in the battle of Lauffeldt (Lawfeld).

family

In 1725 he married Marie-Louise-Rosalie Phélypeaux (1714–1734). Another marriage took place in 1736 with his niece Maria Josepha Countess von Hohenfels (1720–1797), illegitimate daughter of his half-brother Elector Karl Albrecht of Bavaria and his lover Maria Caroline Charlotte von Ingenheim . His daughter Marie Amélie Caroline Josèphe Francoise Xavière de Bavière (1744-1820), Comtesse de Hohenfels, Marquise de Villacerf comes from this second marriage. She married Armand Charles Emmanuel de Hautefort, marquis de Sarcelles (1741-1805).

Louise-Anne de Bourbon-Condé, known as Mademoiselle de Charolais

Before his first marriage, around 1710, he was one of the numerous lovers of Louise Anne de Bourbon-Condé (1695–1758) of the same age .

literature

  • Ludwig Hüttl: Max Emanuel - the Blue Elector . Munich, 1976, ISBN 3-7991-5863-4
  • Eduard Vehse: Bavarian court stories . Ed .: Joachim Delbrück, Munich, Georg Müller 1922
  • Peter Claus Hartmann: Max Emanuel in exile . Catalog entry in: Elector Max Emanuel, Bavaria and Europe around 1700 , Munich 1976
  • Alois Schmid : Max III. Joseph and the European Powers. Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-53631-1 , p. 28.
  • Lever Maurice: Le régne du Père-Bibl . Sade, Fayard, Paris 1993
  • Anonymous (Frhr. V. Br.): Emanuel Franz Joseph (Chevalier de Bavière). In: Bayerisch Land und Volk, No. 18, Volume II. 1891/1892, p. 188. Publisher: Reichel, Augsburg.

Web links

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  1. ↑ MGHA house records no. 1783/3
  2. ↑ MGHA house records no. 1783/4
  3. ↑ MGHA house records no. 1783/9
  4. ↑ http://www.william1.co.uk/h27.htm
  5. ↑ http://genealogy.euweb.cz/wittel/wittel11.html
  6. ↑ European Genealogical Hand-Book, 1763 , page 158
  7. ↑ Chenaye-Desbois et Badier: Dictionnaire de la Noblesse , Paris, 1863, column 593; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Bavière, Emmanuel-François-Joseph de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bavière, Emmanuel-François-Joseph Comte de; Bavière, Emanuel Franz Joseph Comte de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician under King Louis XIV
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1695
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1747
Place of death at Lafelt