Johann Kaspar Basselet from La Rosée

Coat of arms of the imperial count Basselet von La Rosée (from the grave of the great-great-grandson, Mannheim main cemetery)

Imperial Count Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée , also Jean-Gaspard Basselet von La Rosée (born April 30, 1710 in Arel , Duchy of Luxembourg , † April 12, 1795 in Munich ) was a German officer and general in the Bavarian Army .

Life

The offspring of the Basselet von La Rosée family acted as a real Bavarian secret council , field marshal lieutenant and court war council director , and was thus quasi Bavarian minister of war. His father, Gomar Basselet de La Rosée, came from a Spanish noble family and served in the Spanish regiment Melun-Nysbourg, which was garrisoned in Arlon in Luxembourg , but fell in a duel.

In 1761 he was made an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , in 1764 he was raised to the rank of imperial count ( recognized in the Electorate of Bavaria in 1766 ). Around 1760 he acquired the Garatshausen / Feldafing court brands and in 1780 the Possenhofen court brands and the Roseninsel . This gave him the largest closed riverside area on Lake Starnberg .

In 1770, Count Basselet von La Rosée bought the Hofmark walls near Moosburg .

His grave is in the crypt chapel of Count La Rosée in Inkofen , today part of Haag an der Amper .

In 1745 La Rosée married Johanna Elisabetha von Ruffini (April 14, 1718 - November 2, 1764), daughter of the salt merchant Johann Baptista Ruffini and niece of the Bavarian State Chancellor Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl . A son of this marriage was the electoral Bavarian chamberlain, real secret council and higher appeal court president Aloys Reichsgraf Basselet von La Rosée . Maria Josepha Theresia Walburga von La Rosée (1746–1772) also arose from this connection. In 1766 she married Count Joseph Ferdinand Maria von Salern (1718–1805), an illegitimate offspring of Prince Ferdinand Maria Innocent of Bavaria .

In his second marriage, La Rosée married Maria Josepha von Nauendort auf Geisdorf in 1767. Your sprouted:

The descendants from their second marriage acquired Isareck Castle near Moosburg in 1824 , which they still own today.

Karl von Leoprechting: Stud book of Possenhofen, the island of Wörth and Garatshausen on the Würmsee. Munich 1854.
JB Prechtl: "The Isareck Castle near Moosburg". In: Oberbayerisches Archiv vol. 40 (1881), p. 56 ff.
Moritz Graf Strachwitz: The descendants of Johann Caspar Graf Basselet de la Rosée: Bavarian General of the Cavalry and President of the Court War Council (1710–1795). Typescript Munich: M. Strachwitz 1996.

personal data
SURNAME	Basselet by La Rosée, Johann Kaspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Basselet by La Rosée, Jean-Gaspard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer and general in the Bavarian Army
DATE OF BIRTH	April 30, 1710
PLACE OF BIRTH	Arel , Duchy of Luxembourg
DATE OF DEATH	April 12, 1795
Place of death	Munich