Joël de Cournuaud

Joël de Cournuaud (* 1637 in Pojole, Basse-Guyenne, † August 4, 1718 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and chief of a battalion made up of French emigrants.

Life

His father was Jean Jacques de Cournuaud de Fontbourgade, Seigneur de Soulat.

Cournuaud went into French service in 1650 and rose there in the "Turenne" regiment to major . Shortly before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes , he moved to Brandenburg on May 13, 1685 and was hired as a lieutenant colonel . On behalf of the elector, he set up a free battalion of emigrated French, which gathered in Brandenburg an der Havel . He himself was appointed chief of this battalion and promoted to colonel on October 26, 1689 . During the Palatinate War of Succession he took part in the siege of Bonn . In March 1691 he was transferred to Savoy with the battalion and took part in the fighting in Italy from 1691 to 1697. On May 15, 1696 he was promoted to major general. After the war on January 4, 1698, the battalion was withdrawn except for one company . But as part of the War of the Spanish Succession , it was increased to four companies in 1702, and Cournuaud was promoted to Lieutenant General on December 30, 1704. In April 1705 it was assigned to the army of Prince Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau in Italy. The troop was able to excel at Cassano and Turin . Cournuaud returned to Berlin in 1708, where he initially fell seriously ill and received a pension from 1711 . He died on August 4, 1718 in Berlin and was buried in the French Cathedral .

Cournuaud was not married, but had three nephews who also served in the army, including Colonel Etienne Cournuaud de la Baugerie († 1737), commander of the von Grumbkow infantry regiment

literature

Anton Balthasar König : Joël de Cournuaud . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 1 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1788, p. 328 ( Joël de Cournuaud at Wikisource [PDF]).

Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 1, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632764 , p. 66, no. 105.

Henri Wilhelm Nathanael Tollin: History of the French Colony of Magdeburg. Volume 3, Part Ib, pp. 60f.

Individual evidence

^ Tollin: History of the French Colony of Magdeburg. P. 114f.

personal data
SURNAME	Cournuaud, Joël de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cournuaud, Joël de; Courneaud, Joël de; Cournaud, Joël de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH	1637
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pojole, Basse-Guyenne
DATE OF DEATH	August 4, 1718
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Tollin: History of the French Colony of Magdeburg. P. 114f.