Johannes Franz Eugen of Savoy

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Epitaph from the Thesaurus Palatinus

Johannes Franz Eugen von Savoyen (born September 23, 1714 , † November 24, 1734 in Mannheim ) was a prince from the noble House of Savoy , Count of Soissons and sergeant-general of the Imperial Army .

ancestry

His grandfather was Louis Thomas von Savoyen-Carignan († 1702 near Landau in the Palatinate ), the older brother of the famous general Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736).

Johannes Franz Eugen von Savoyen was born as the son of Emanuel Thomas von Savoyen (1687–1729) and his wife Therese von Liechtenstein, daughter of Prince Johann Adam Andreas von Liechtenstein .

Life

He joined the imperial army and served during the War of the Polish Succession , under the command of his great-uncle, on the Rhine. Here the prince was the owner of the cuirassier regiment named after him " Young Savoy" (later Kuk 8th Dragoon Regiment ) and had held the rank of general sergeant since April 3, 1734, he also carried the Order of the Golden Fleece and the Order of Announcements .

The general fell ill with "hot fever" ( typhus ) and died on November 24, 1734, at 3:20 in the morning in Mannheim. He was buried here in a crypt in the Catholic parish church of St. Sebastian . Today nothing reminds of him there, but the regional historian Johann Franz Capellini von Wickenburg gave us the burial place and the inscription of the former epitaph in the compilation “ Thesaurus Palatinus ” .

Prince Johannes Franz Eugen of Savoy had no descendants. He was engaged to the minor Princess Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina (1725-1790), heiress of the Duchy of Massa and Carrara .

literature

  • Andreas Lazarus von Imhof: Newly opened history hall: This is a short, clear and impartial description of the general world and church stories , Part 6, p. 55, Basel, 1746; (Digital scan)
  • Genealogisches Staats-Handbuch , 67th year, p. 266, Frankfurt am Main, 1839; (Digital scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the fighting on the Rhine: Digital scan of the book Campaigns of Prince Eugene of Savoy in the War of the Polish Succession (1733-34)
  2. ^ Tomb inscription by Johannes Franz Eugen von Savoyen from the Thesaurus Palatinus
personal data
SURNAME Savoy, Johannes Franz Eugen von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sergeant General Holy Roman Empire
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1714
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1734
Place of death Mannheim