Joseph Cerrini de Monte Varchi

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Baron (since 1789) Joseph Cerrini de Monte Varchi (* 1743 ; † November 27, 1809 ) was an officer, most recently an Imperial and Royal Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal .

Life

Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresa Order

Joseph Cerrini de Monte Varchi came from a noble Florentine family, whose lineage begins with Cerrino de Monte Varchi around 1300. Fabrizio Cerrini followed the call of Empress Eleonore in 1671 and moved to Austria, where he was appointed court chamber councilor and director of all imperial museums and galleries in Vienna. He is the progenitor of an Austrian and a Saxon line. Joseph's father Franz von Cerrini, born in Vienna in 1700, fought with distinction in the Turkish War .

On November 15, 1788, Joseph Cerrini de Monte Varchi was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa as Major . In 1789 he was honored with the hereditary baron status of the Austrian hereditary lands for his services as KK Obristwachtmeister on September 19 . On March 5, 1801, he advanced to the rank of major general . He received the even higher honor of Lieutenant Field Marshal on August 26, 1809, exactly three months before his death.

family

Baron family coat of arms

Joseph Cerrini de Monte Varchi was married to Donna Isabella de Andrade from the house of Andrade in Barcelona, ​​the Marquis de Cintadille, whose branch under Emperor Charles VI. came to Austria.

The son Karl , who was born in 1777 in the Hungarian town of Raba, was also held in high esteem by the Imperial-Royal ore house and attained the military rank of Imperial-Royal Major General . In 1838 he was granted the hereditary count status. The daughter Maria Anna , born in Vienna on June 21, 1780 , was married in 1804 to the later Imperial and Royal General Paul von Wernhardt . So in 1806 she became the mother of his grandson Stefan von Wernhardt , who later, like the maternal grandfather, was promoted to field marshal lieutenant .

The later commander in chief of the Saxon Army Clemens Cerrini de Monte Varchi was his nephew.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , Deutsche Grafen-Haeuser der Gegenwart , p. 61 f. (Resp. that., Volume III, Leipzig 1852, pp. 60-62 )
  2. ↑ a b GHdA , Adelslexikon Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 1974, p. 267
  3. ^ Friedrich August Schmidt (ed.), New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 1, Ilmenau 1824, pp. 141–148
  4. ^ Heinrich August Pierer , Pierer's Universal Lexicon of Past and Present , Volume 3, Altenburg 1857, p. 828 f.
  5. ↑ Herders Conversations-Lexikon , Freiburg im Breisgau 1854, Volume 2, p. 50
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Genealogical pocket book of the German count's houses , Volume 13, pp. 131–133
  7. ↑ Miltary Maria Theresia Order - A to D on austro-hungarian-army (accessed on October 25, 2014)
  8. ^ Johann Christian von Hellbach , Adels-Lexikon , Volume 1, p. 227
  9. ↑ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano, Kaiserliche und kk Generale (1618–1815) , Austrian State Archives 2006 ( digitized version ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oesta.gv.at
personal data
SURNAME Cerrini de Monte Varchi, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cerrini, Joseph; Cerrini, Joseph von; Cerrini de Montevarchi, Joseph; Cerrini di Monte Varchi, Joseph von; Cerrini de Monte Varchi, Joseph Freiherr; Cerrini de Monte Varchi, Josef Freiherr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian field marshal lieutenant
DATE OF BIRTH 1743
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1809