Joseph Jacob Murray de Melgum

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Count Joseph de Jacob Murray Melgum (* 6. August 1718 in Tournai , † 5. June 1802 in Vienna ) was a Scottish nobleman as Habsburg military in the imperial counts rise.

Life and family

He came from the Scottish Murray clan and was the son of Robert Murray († 1719), the owner and commander of a regiment of Scottish infantry in the north Dutch service, which was stationed in Tournai in the southern Netherlands at the time of Joseph Jacob's birth . The father also served as governor there . At the age of 15, Joseph Jacob formally entered the imperial infantry regiment “Los Rios”; he actually took up service in 1739.

Murray was married twice. From the first marriage he had a daughter:

From the second marriage with Maria Colette Countess von Lichtervelde, entered into in 1765, children, a son and a daughter sprang:

  • Henriette Auguste Josephine (1771–1849) ⚭ 1802 Major Philipp Marquis de Bacquehem, kk chamberlain
  • Albrecht Joseph Ghislain Count Murray (1774–1848), kk chamberlain, field marshal lieutenant and Lower Austrian state, ⚭ 1815 Almeria Franziska Ursula Countess Esterházy-Galantha (1789–1848)

Most of the last years of his life he spent in Vienna.

Military career

Murray de Melgum served in various Walloon regiments during the War of the Austrian Succession and made it to major (1747). He ended the Seven Years' War as major general (1761), he took a. a. participated in the battles of Breslau , Leuthen and Hochkirch . In 1771 he became Lieutenant Field Marshal , in 1783 Feldzeugmeister , and in 1787 he was retired.

Civil servant and court career

In 1766 Murray de Melgum became sub-inspector of the infantry stationed in the Austrian Netherlands , in 1780 a privy councilor and commanding general of all imperial troops in the Netherlands. When unrest broke out there in 1787 and the head of the civil administration, Plenipotentiary Minister Count di Barbiano e Belgiojoso , was summoned to Vienna to report, Murray de Melgum also took over his official powers ad interim . His measures to combat the unrest found no approval at the imperial court, which is why he was dismissed in the same year and retired with honor.

Nobility title

In 1736 he inherited from his nephew Sir Alexander Murray, 2nd Baronet the title Baronet , of Melgund in the County of Forfar , who had been awarded the father on 29 January 1704 the barons days of Nova Scotia. He did not register as a title holder until March 28, 1771 at the Court of the Lord Lyon .

With a diploma dated September 16, 1740, he and his family were elevated to the status of Austrian barons and with a diploma dated November 25, 1761 to the Austrian count status. With a diploma of April 19, 1783, his family was finally granted an increase in the coat of arms with the permission to include the ducal hat and the ermine coat in the coat of arms.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b MURRAY DE MELGUM Joseph comte . In: Amadémie Royale de Belgique (ed.): La Biographie Nationale . Volume 15, Émile Bruylant, Brussels 1889, p. 366 ff. ( PDF ( Memento from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ))
  2. ^ Charles Mosley: Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage . Volume 3, Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, Wilmington 2003, p. 3551.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Murray de Melgum, the Counts . In: Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire. Volume 19, Vienna 1868, pp. 469-470.
  4. ↑ Baronetage: MURRAY of Melgund, Forfar at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
  5. ↑ George Edward Cokayne : The Complete Baronetage. Volume 4, William Pollard, Exeter 1904, p. 421 ( archive.org ).
predecessor title successor
Alexander Murray Baronet, of Melgund
1736-1802 		Albert Murray
personal data
SURNAME Murray de Melgum, Joseph Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murray, Sir Joseph, 3rd Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Habsburg military member
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1718
PLACE OF BIRTH Tournai
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1802
Place of death Vienna