Ludwig Gruno of Hessen-Homburg

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Ludwig Gruno of Hessen-Homburg

Ludwig Johann Wilhelm Gruno of Hessen-Homburg (born January 15, 1705 in Homburg , † October 23, 1745 in Berlin ) was Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Homburg and Russian Field Marshal General .

Life

Ludwig Gruno was a son of Landgrave Friedrich III. Jacob von Hessen-Homburg (1673–1746) from his marriage to Elisabeth Dorothea (1676–1721), daughter of Landgrave Ludwig VI. from Hessen-Darmstadt . He was given the name Gruno as a godchild of the province of Groningen , since Ludwig Gruno's father was in the Dutch service.

In 1722 he studied at the University of Giessen but was sent to Russia by his father a year later. Appointed Colonel of the Narva Regiment, he was Major General in Riga from 1725 . As the grandson of Luise Elisabeth von Kurland , he hoped for a successor in Kurland and contacted his cousin Ferdinand , the last Duke of Kurland from the Ketteler family . Ludwig Gruno was also in close contact with Grand Duchess Anna Ivanovna , who became Tsarina in 1730 and brought Ludwig Gruno to Saint Petersburg . He was promoted to lieutenant general and commander of all troops in St. Petersburg and was appointed a member of the war college. In 1728 Ludwig Gruno took part in the construction of the first reformed church in St. Petersburg.

In 1732 he undertook a successful campaign against the Crimean Tatars in the Caucasus and was then showered with honors and awards by the Tsarina. After operations in eastern Poland in 1734/1735, he fought again against the Crimean Tatars and in 1736/1737 against the Turks under the command of Münnich , with whom he was constantly in rivalry. He achieved the rank of general field master and became governor of Astrakhan and the Persian provinces.

Ludwig Gruno was also in the favor of Tsarina Elisabeth . In 1742 she appointed him field marshal general and gave him, in addition to a house in Moscow, extensive lands in Livonia . He died a year before his father during a trip to a spa stay in Berlin and was buried in the crypt of Bad Homburg Castle .

Ludwig Gruno married on February 3, 1738 Anastasia (1700–1755), daughter of Prince Iwan Jurjewitsch Trubezkoi and widow of Prince Dimitrie Cantemir . The marriage remained childless.

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SURNAME Hessen-Homburg, Ludwig Gruno from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hessen-Homburg, Ludwig Johann Wilhelm Gruno from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian Field Marshal General
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1705
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1745
Place of death Berlin