Franz you Hamel

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Franz Graf du Hamel de Querlonde († beginning of April 1705 in Venice ) was a Prussian general of the cavalry and later generalissimo of the Republic of Venice .

Life

origin

Franz du Hamel de Querlonde came from a French Catholic family. A relative, Alexander (Alexis) Chevalier du Hamel , became General of the Cavalry and Knight of the Military Order of St. Henry in 1790 .

Career

Hamel initially served in the army of Louis XIV and later entered service in Brandenburg . On October 21, 1674 he was promoted to colonel , and Elector Friedrich Wilhelm appointed him head of a cuirassier regiment that was to be dismissed in 1679. On January 20, 1676, he was appointed treasurer, on July 10, 1679, major general and in 1689, lieutenant general. In addition, he became chief of the newly established cuirassier regiment "du Hamel" .

When the Rheinsberg Castle fell to the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm as a settled fief after the death of Count von Lochow in 1685 , he gave it to General du Hamel. In the same year he received permission to sell it to the councilor Benjamin Chevenix de Beville.

In 1701 he was awarded the Order of the Black Eagle . On February 28, 1702, however, Hamel left the army in a dispute: in 1702 rented with other Prussian troops to the Dutch in the Bergisches Land , he had unsuccessfully requested promotion to the real general of the cavalry, which the king had given him out of consideration for the Homburg count and General of the cavalry Friedrich II refused. As a result, Hamel became generalissimo of the Republic of Venice, where he died a short time later. His corpse was transferred to Berlin by his heirs and buried in the Reformed Church.

family

He was married to Henriette Freiin von Pölnitz († 1706), widowed von der Schulenburg . She was the daughter of the head stable master Gerhard Bernhard von Pölnitz , widow of a chamberlain and aunt of Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz . The marriage remained childless.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann G. Knup: Historical and genealogical description of the sex of those of Pöllnitz. P. 116, ( online ) - Other sources cite the Greek peninsula Morea as the place of death, which was in Venetian possession at the time. Source: Stephen Whatley: The memoirs of Charles-Lewis, baron de Pollnitz , 1737, p. 7 ( online ).
  2. ^ Eduard Vehse : History of the German courts since the Reformation. Volumes 1-2. ( online ).
  3. ↑ Conversation Lexicon or encyclopedic concise dictionary for educated classes , Volume 7, AF Macklot , Stuttgart 1817, p. 760, ( online )
personal data
SURNAME You Hamel, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Du Hamel de Querlonde, Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the cavalry and later generalissimo of the Republic of Venice
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH April 1705
Place of death Venice