Heinrich Hallard called Elliot
Heinrich Hallard called Elliot (* 1620 ; † September 22, 1681 in Plathe ) was a Kurbrandenburg secret war council, major general and supreme commander of all fortresses lying on the Peene .
His ancestors come from Scotland. His parents were the Dutch captain Amaury Hallard and his wife the baroness Katharina Fournier de Neuville.
He switched from Dutch to Kurbrandenburg services around 1660. On March 25, 1661 he was raised to the nobility. On May 14, 1672 he became a colonel in the von der Goltz regiment . In the Swedish-Brandenburg War in 1675/1676 he was in command of the city and fortress of Wolgast , which had been captured by Brandenburg, and held it successfully against attempts at Swedish recapture under Field Marshal Conrad Mardefelt and in May 1676 under Field Marshal Otto Wilhelm von Königsmarck . On July 11, 1678, he was appointed major general and on September 10, 1678, commanded the left wing of the Brandenburg troops in the conquest of the island of Rügen .
He died in Plathe in 1681.
Marriages and offspring
He met his first wife as a lieutenant colonel when he was stationed in Plathe. It was Kunigunde von Dewitz , widow of Andreas von der Osten († 1660), heiress of Plathe. But she died before 1671.
He married his second wife in Anklam in 1678 . It was about Sophia Hedwig von Mardefeld (* 1662, † 1733), the daughter of the Swedish General Field Marshal Conrad Mardefelt and Augusta Elisabeth von der Lancken . He had several children with her. After his death, the widow married the then Colonel Moritz Friedrich von Schwerin (1652–1686), then Legation Counselor Lorenz Georg von Krockow (1638–1702), and finally Lieutenant General Johann Georg von Tettau (1650–1713).
The son Ludwig Nikolaus von Hallart (* 1659, † 1727) served from 1700 in the Russian army, in which he rose to general. The daughter Antoinette Hedwig († 1756) married the later Prussian Field Marshal Adrian Bernhard von Borcke .
literature
- L. Wegner: Family history of von Dewitz. Volume 1, 1868, p. 509, digitized
- Jean Pierre Erman , Pierre Christian Frédéric Reclam: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des réfugiés françois dans les États du roi. Volume 9, 1799, p. 144, digitized version (French)
- Kurd Wolfgang von Schöning : The generals of the Chur-Brandenburg and royal Prussian army. 1840, p. 9, digitized
- Anton Balthasar König : Heinrich Hallard called Elliot . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military people . tape II . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1789, p. 114–115 ( Heinrich Hallard called Elliot in the Google book search).
Individual evidence
- ^ Dieterich Sigismund von Buch, Gustav von Kessel: Diary Dieterich Sigismund's von Buch from the years 1674 to 1683. Volume 1, 1865, p. 170, digitized
- ↑ Samuel F. Seydell: news patriotic fortresses and fortress wars of conquest and assertion of the city of Brandenburg, up to current times. Volume 1, 1818, p. 183 digitized
- ↑ Martin Wehrmann : History of Pomerania. Volume 2, 2nd edition, Verlag Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha 1921, p. 195 (reprint: Augsburg 1992, ISBN 3-89350-112-6 )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hallard called Elliot, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | d'Hallard called Elliot, Heinrich; Hallard, Henri; D'Hallard Elliot, Henry; Hallard, Henri de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kurbrandenburg secret war council, major general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1620 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1681 |
| Place of death | Plateau |