Giovanni Baptista Chizzola
Giovanni Baptista Chizzola (* 1641 in Brescia ; † around 1691 with Stari Slankamen ) was a colonel in the imperial Habsburg army. He was born into an old noble family from Brescia , Ferdinando Nob. Chizzola (* 1605 , † 1688 ) and his third wife Adriana Negrobona († 1650 ) were born. The family was wealthy and called themselves "Lords of Castrezzato and Maclodio". Following the tradition of his maternal ancestors and also following the example of his father, Giovanni Baptista took up the profession of soldier .
Life
Chizzola's first act of glory was that he was the first and unharmed to erect the imperial flag on a conquered wall in 1659 during the siege of Stettin in the Second Northern War off Wollin / Iulin in the fight against Sweden under Count Starhemberg in the Collalto regiment. He sent these flags to Emperor Leopold I and two years later he received a gold medal with the portrait of the emperor on a gold chain. An inscription in the ballroom of the Palazzo Averoldi - for 50 years Chizzola - in Brescia names the walls by Iulini, the old Latin name of Wolin. In 1661 he returned to Brescia and then served in the papal guard until 1666.
During the Dutch War , Chizzola was named as a company commander during the siege of Bonn (1673) . In August 1674 there was the battle of Seneffe in what is now Belgium, and later in 1675 at Altenheim, Saverne and Trier. During the 11-week siege in front of Philippsburg near Karlsruhe on the Rhine from July 3 to September 15, 1676, Captain Chizzola distinguished himself in particular.
In Brescia, Chizzola belonged to the Consilium (Consiglio generale) of the city from 1678. In the ownership records in Brescia from 1685, “Gio. Batta., Commandante per Sua Maesta Cesarea nella Piazza di Filisburg in Alsatia, 44 years ”under Leopold I. He was accompanied by a staff that included a housekeeper, two pages, a cook, a cook, seven grooms, four maids and 24 horses, 14 of them for bodies, four for carts and six riding horses. At that time, Chizzola was already married to the 36-year-old "Signora Enrica Maria nata Baronessa di Bubuinishaus e di Valmerod". The Bubinghausen von Walmeroth were a Rhenish-Westphalian, later a Swabian family in the baron class, which seems to have died out in the 17th century.
From 1684 to 1689 he was in command of Philippsburg. In a storm on Mainz in 1689 during the War of the Palatinate Succession , Lieutenant Colonel Chizzola and 135 men were wounded. On September 16, 1686, Chizzola was appointed colonel and on October 1, with a letter from Emperor Leopold I , referring to his 30 years of service with sometimes serious injuries, his bravery and military skills, he became owner and commanding officer (Tenente Colonello) of the 8th Infantry Regiment ordered. In a corresponding document to the kk Hof-Kriegs-Rath he is referred to with the title Baron .
In 1690 the regiment received marching orders to Hungary for the siege of Großwardein. In the Great Turkish War Chizzola took a According Serbian literature in December 1690 its Haiduks ( "freedom fighters" or robbers) and Serbs from Osijek from the city of Vukovar one. Elsewhere it is reported that at the end of February 1691 he defeated the Pasha at Irig (south of Novisad) . Colonel Chizzola is said to have been wounded in the Battle of Slankamen on August 19, 1691 and brought to Esseg, from where he wanted to Vienna. In the reports of the Battle of Slankamen, his name does not appear among the fallen. According to a source, he is said to have died during the march "on the water", probably on the Danube. It is likely that he was wounded near Slankamen and, according to an estate report in the family archives, died of his wounds on the return transport on the Theiss in the field camp near Szeged. He was buried on September 4, 1691 in Buda (Pest) in the church "della Compagnia Madonna Vergine". The church was destroyed in World War II, the marble sarcophagus erected in 1692 and the memorial plaque no longer exist. After his death, an inventory list was drawn up, including two tents, Turkish and other copper kettles, various household items, 1 horse, 15 pairs of oxen, 11 medium-sized oxen, 2 cows and a bull, 2 camels, 12 chickens, unfired coffee, etc.
Chizzola had no offspring, the family continued in the offspring of his brother Faustino.
The importance of the type of death for historians is shown by the comment in the regimental history: "Colonel Chizzola was the first colonel who did not lose his life in the field of honor".
Individual evidence
- ^ Archivio di Stato di Brescia, property records “polizze estimi”, 1685
- ↑ Quotation from a printed leaflet in the Averoldi archive in Brescia: "Right from the start a young Brescian cavallier from the Collaltic regiment Fendrich, who was reported to have been reported, came unharmed into the fortress and 4 Fandel captured from the enemy".
- ↑ family archives Averoldi
- ↑ Artur Gartner Noble Roman bridge: history of the 8th Infantry Regiment. 1891
- ^ Anton Gartner v. Romansbrück. History of the kuk Inf.Reg. Ehzg Carl-Stephan No. 8, 1892, p. 186
- ↑ Conte Fausto Lechi, Le dimore bresciane, Vol. 3, pag. 312, Palazzo già Averoldi
- ↑ Fahne A., History of the Cologne, Jülischen and Bergischen families, vol. 2, Cologne 1853 a. Siebmacher Vol. 3
- ↑ Aleksa Ivic: Migracije Srba u Slavoniju tokom 1617 i 18
- ^ Joh. Phil. Abelin: Theatrum Europaeum , 1662–1738; Vol. 14.
- ↑ See Graeffer's History of the Imperial and Royal War Peoples , Vol. 1.
- ↑ family archives Averoldi Brescia
- ↑ CA Schweiger: History d. kk. Lines Infantry Reg. N ° 8 , Archduke Ludwig, 1857, p. 20
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chizzola, Giovanni Baptista |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Colonel in the Imperial Habsburg Army |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1641 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brescia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1691 |
| Place of death | Brescia |