Friedrich of Saporta
Friedrich Karl Graf von Saporta (born March 17, 1794 in Neckargemünd , † May 4, 1853 in Munich ) was a Bavarian major general .
Life
Saporta began his military training at the pagerie and then joined the Bavarian army . There he became an adjutant to Prince Otto . When he became king in Greece in 1832, he accompanied him to Greece as a captain, where he became the court marshal. On behalf of Otto, he also undertook scientific research there, and in 1835 found Carl Fraas, the tutor and doctor of his family, to be employed as court master . In 1837 he returned to Bavaria. There he was Ludwig I to Chamberlain of Queen Therese ordered. He retired from military service as major general and was appointed royal chamberlain .
Saporta's tomb is in Munich's Old South Cemetery , a street in Munich-Neuhausen commemorates him.
Origin and family
The Counts of Saporta originally came from Saragossa in Aragon and wrote Zapoxta . They came to France in the 15th century, changed the name to Saporta and became a widespread aristocratic family.
Saporta's father Anton August von Saporta took up service in the Kurpfalz region , where he received his French title of count in 1768 and was electoral chamberlain and captain . He later joined the Palatinate-Zweibrücken Guard as a colonel . His second wife Henriette von Geispitzheim gave birth to Friedrich Karl.
Friedrich Karl von Saporta married Clara Elisabeth von Stetten (1804–1835) in 1824 and Johanna Freiin von Fechenbach-Laudenbach († 1839) in 1838. The daughter Countess Caroline Stephanie (* 1824), Baroness von Rolshausen from 1847, comes from the first marriage.
Awards
- Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of St. Michael
- Grand Commander's Cross of the Oldenburg House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig
- Commander's Cross 1st Class of the Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Ludwig
- Prussian Order of the Red Eagle 1st class
- Commander's Cross 1st Class of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order
- Grand Cross of the Baden Order of the Zähringer Lion
- Commander's Cross of the Hungarian Order of St. Stephen
- Grand Commander 's Cross of the Greek Order of the Redeemer
- Knight's Cross of the French Legion of Honor ,
- Knight's Cross 2nd class with diamonds of the Russian Order of St. Anna
- Grand Cross of the Spanish Order of Isabella the Catholic ,
- Grand Cross of the Swedish Order of the Sword ,
- Bavarian military monument 1813/1815
- Greek symbol for the Bavarian Aid Corps
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : German count houses of the present: In heraldic, historical and genealogical relation. Volume 2: L-Z. Leipzig 1853, p. 344f. Online version at google books
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 8, Leipzig 1868, p. 47.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinz Kahlträger: Bavarian plant collectors in Greece - 1. Franz Xaver Berger, Franz Zuccarini and Carl Nikolaus Fraas, Willdenowia No. 36/2006, page 565 (PDF; 150 kB)
- ^ All awards according to the gravestone inscription or Anton JJ von Schönhueb History of the Royal Bavarian Cadetten-Corps , Munich 1856, page 218f
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Saporta, Friedrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Saporta, Friedrich Karl Graf von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bavarian major general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neckargemünd |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1853 |
| Place of death | Munich |