Johann Leonhard d'Artois of Bequignolle

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Johann Leonhard (d'Artois) von Bequignolle also Johann Bernhard Casimir (* around 1717 in Magdeburg , † around 1778 in Cosel ) was a Prussian cavalry master and chief of the F 13 free battalion .

Life

Family coat of arms

origin

His family came from France and were Huguenot . After the revocation of the Edict of Tolerance of Nantes in 1685, she immigrated to the Kurbrandenburg lands. Johann Leonhard was the son of the Prussian Colonel Noé (d'Artis) de Bequignolle and Katharina Elisabeth, widow of Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Moritz von Bequer and née von Hutten, a daughter of Major General Bernhard von Hutten and his wife, née Kolb von Wartenberg , Sister of the Kurbrandenburg Minister Count Johann Kasimir Kolb von Wartenberg . His father, who had been married to his mother since 1713, was granted the old French nobility and the Prussian nobility in 1718 . The blue shield of the family coat of arms shows a golden rafter, accompanied by three golden maces (morning stars; 2: 1). His sister Jeanne Marie (1713–1791) was married to the President of the War and Domain Chamber in Minden , then in Kleve , Victor Carl Moritz von Bessel (1700–1786), and was thus an aunt of the President of the Pomeranian War and Domain Chamber , Carl Wilhelm von Bessel .

Career

Bequignolle joined the Prussian Army at a young age . He was promoted to lieutenant on July 16, 1743 in the cuirassier regiment "Margrave Friedrich" . In February 1751 Frederick II awarded him a canon in St. Martin's monastery in Minden . In 1757 he asked for his departure in order to go into service in the curbs of Brunswick . In 1758 he served in the rank of captain under the command of Prince Ferdinand of Braunschweig . When he and his corps crossed the Rhine , Bequignolle was able to distinguish himself in the battles against the French. On February 6, 1759, he retired from service in Brunswick with the character of a lieutenant colonel and returned to Prussian service in 1760. In 1761 he established a hussar free corps in Halberstadt , which he commanded with the rank of Rittmeister. With this he was able to stand out before Warburg and when taking Kassel . He also took part in the battles near Naundorf and Malitsch in the Seven Years' War . After the Treaty of Hubertusburg , his battalion was disbanded in 1763 and he himself was transferred to the "von Saß" garrison regiment.

family

He married Luise Amalie von Auerswald († 1767), a daughter of Hans Casimir von Auerswald, heir to Faulen in West Prussia, and Luise Charlotte, née von Auer . The couple had several children:

  • Johanna Charlotte ⚭ NN von Hundt, Major
  • Frederike Elisabeth (1754–1809) ⚭ Johann Kasimir von Auer (1736–1809), major general
  • Johann Bernhard Casimir (1757–1821) on Sieslack near Preußisch Eylau
  • Wilhelm Alexander Heinrich, Lieutenant Colonel and Commander of the 5th East Prussian Landwehr, Deputy for the Landscape
⚭ Wilhelmine Freiin von Schrötter (1780-1858)
⚭ Dorothea Hexel

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Archive for Genealogy and Heraldry , 5th year, Papiermühle 1905, p. 6.
  2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 1, p. 116. Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adels Lexicon . Volume 1, Leipzig 1836, p. 144 , p. 210.
  3. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adels Lexicon . Volume 2, Leipzig 1836, p. 451 f.
  4. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class elevations and acts of grace from 1600–1873. Berlin 1874, p. 18.
  5. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adels Lexicon . Volume 1, Leipzig 1836, p. 210.
  6. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 74 . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ^ Günther Gieraths : The combat operations of the Brandenburg-Prussian Army 1626-1807. A source manual. Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 1964, p. 326.
  8. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses . Third year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1902, p. 517.
  9. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1859 . Ninth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1859, p. 759.
personal data
SURNAME d'Artois von Bequignolle, Johann Leonhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES d'Artois of Bequignolle, Johann Bernhard Casimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Rittmeister
DATE OF BIRTH around 1717
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH around 1778
Place of death Cosel