Ferdinand Karl Gobert von Aspremont-Lynden

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Ferdinand Karl von Aspremont-Lynden

Ferdinand Karl Gobert, Count of Aspremont-Lynden (born September 17, 1689 in Stoumont (now Belgium ), † August 14, 1772 in Vienna ) was a soldier in the service of the United Provinces and the Holy Roman Empire .

biography

Von Aspremont-Lynden was born in 1689 in Froidcourt Castle ( Château de Froidcourt ) in Stoumont in the Imperial Abbey of Stablo-Malmedy . He is the son of Count Karl Franz von Aspremont-Lynden, Baron de Froidcourt, a great-grandson of Robert von Lynden . His mother Maria Franziska was a sister of Count Ferdinand Gobert von Aspremont-Lynden .

Count Ferdinand Karl served the United Provinces as Lieutenant Dragoons van der Duyn between 1708 and 1714. He met Prince Eugen and in 1722 entered the service of Emperor Charles VI. with the rank of Adjutant General ad honorem . He was later made lieutenant colonel and colonel and commander of the Savoy Dragoons , a position he earned between 1733 and 1737.

From 1733 to 1734 he was stationed in the area between the Rhine and Moselle. Von Aspremont-Lynden was promoted to sergeant- general in 1737 and took part in the battle against the Turks from 1737 to 1738 as commander of the dragoon regiment "Eugene Prince of Savoy" . In 1741 he rose to the rank of field marshal lieutenant .

He took part in the War of the Austrian Succession as Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial and Piedmontese Army in Italy in 1743, which was a great success in the Battle of Camposanto , Velletri and Piacenza from 1746 to 1747, where he was in the Franco-Spanish command under the direction of Jean-Thierry du Mont, Count of Gages stood.

In 1747 he was promoted to general of the cavalry , and in 1754 to field marshal . In 1760 he was appointed commander of the Hatschieren bodyguard and in 1763 he was appointed commander of the first aristocratic Arcièren bodyguard .

Von Aspremont-Lynden was also a member of the court war council and knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (1763).

Because of the services he had earned in his home country, Ferdinand Karl was able to marry women who both came from influential Austro-Hungarian noble families: Countess Maria Theresa Esterházy de Galantha (1697–1746) and Countess Maria Johanna von Nostitz -Rokitnitz (1713-1779). Both marriages remained childless. He was buried in the Michaelerkirche (Vienna) .

iconography

  • C. Drexler, Field Marshal Count Charles von Aspremont-Lynden , 1773, oil on canvas, 94 × 71.5 cm, signed and on the reverse by ( Vienna , Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , in. BI 11.384).

literature

  • Notice from Georges Englebert, dans Luc Derloo (dir.), Charles-Alexandre de Lorraine. L'homme, le maréchal, le grand maître , Bruxelles, Générale de Banque, 1987, pp. 174-175.