Julius Joseph Bernay from Favancourt

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Julius Josef Count Bernay de Favancourt, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1851

Julius Joseph Count Bernay von Favancourt and zu Coussay , also Count von Bernay-Favancourt , Count Bernay de Favancourt et de Coussay , (born February 27, 1804 in Nancy , † February 24, 1880 in Graz ) came from a noble French family from Picardy and was a kk chamberlain and major general as well as knight of the military Maria Theresa order .

biography

The son of the French general and Count Joseph Louis Bernay de Favancourt (1771-1854) and Countess Anna de Cucullet, Baroness de Arrey (1770-1840), had been a cadet in the Count Nugent Infantry Regiment No. 30, 1824, from the age of 16 . Second lieutenant in Count O'Reilly's Chevauxleger regiment , first lieutenant in the 8th Feldjäger Battalion in 1827, lieutenant captain in the Baron Koudelka 40 infantry regiment in 1830 , and captain there in 1833 .

After he had advanced to major in the Schön Infantry Regiment No. 49 in 1839 , he received the Haymann Grenadier Battalion in 1842, advanced to Lieutenant Colonel in 1844 , and in 1846 joined the Grand Duke of Baden Infantry Regiment No. 59.

During the uprising in Lombardy in 1848, the count first fought under Field Marshal Lieutenant Ludwig Freiherr von Welden and was often named among the distinguished. Later he made a name for himself at Desenzano under Field Marshal Lieutenant Julius Freiherr von Haynau . Promoted to colonel in December 1848 , he first stayed in the Verona garrison , but marched in March 1849 as commandant of infantry regiments 59, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24 and 25 against the rebellious city of Brescia , forcing himself violently Fire the entrance to this (March 31 of the year) and attacked the barricades. He was able to defend the positions he had gained that day and renewed the fight the following day with reinforced troops. He was wounded with a shot through the chest and could no longer take part in the fight at the head of his soldiers. The city had to surrender an hour later. He recovered somewhat from his injury and, in recognition of his exemplary behavior, received the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresa Order and, as commander of the Grand Duke of Baden Infantry Regiment No. 59, the Commander's Cross of the Grand Ducal Baden Military Karl Friedrich Order of Merit .

Since July 12, 1850, Bernay was major general and was at the head of a brigade in the 6th Army Corps in Italy. Due to the long-term effects of his injury, however, he had to retire on October 26, 1852.

He is buried in the St. Leonhard Cemetery in Graz .

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Counts Bernay von Favancourt and zu Coussay

Shield with shield head. In the red head of the shield is a bare sword with a golden hilt, placed obliquely to the right; Hermelin shield with a small red heart shield in which a golden lion strides to the right, and over which heart shields a silver ribbon with the motto "Rex domitum ferre dedit" flies. On the shield is the count's crown, from which a right-sighted golden lion grows up, who holds a sword with a golden handle in the right front paw. The shield holders are two inward-looking golden lions. - The Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses, which otherwise mostly takes foreign currencies into account, gives (1854, p. 70) a motto neither up to date nor otherwise. In Tyroff (Volume 11, Plate 19 from 1859) the coat of arms also appears with the motto.

literature

  • Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk generals 1816-1918. Austrian State Archives, 1907.
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation. Volume 3: A-Z. Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1854, p. 21f
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses. Volume 30, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha 1857.
  • Gerhard Kurzmann, Ottfried Hafner, Graz (Austria). Cultural Office: Dead in Graz: Living Austrian history in the St. Leonhard cemetery. Styria Publishing House, Graz 1990.
  • Jaromir Hirtenfeld , The Military Maria Theresa Order and its Members , Volume 2, p. 1665

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Société d'archéologie lorraine: Journal de la Société d'archéologie et du comité du Musée lorrain [afterw.] Et du Musée historique lorrain. 1879, p. 207 ff.
  2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels Lexicon. Volume 2: Aa-Boyve. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1973, p. 361f.
  3. ^ Edmund Glaise von Horstenau: Franz Joseph's companion: The life of the chief of staff, Count Beck. Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 1930, p. 487.
  4. ^ Franz Joseph Adolf Schneidawind: Field Marshal Count Radetzky: his warlike life and his campaigns. Verlag der B. Schmid'schen Buchhandlung, Augsburg 1851, p. 564.
  5. ↑ Jaromir Hirtenfeld (Ed.): Austrian Military Conversation Lexicon. 1. Volume, Verlag der Buchhandlung für Militärliteratur Karl Prohaska, Vienna 1851, p. 379.
  6. ^ Constantin von Wurzbach : Bernay-Favancourt, Julius Joseph Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University printing house L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 327 ( digitized version ).
  7. ^ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk generality 1816-1918. Austrian State Archives, 1907, p. 14.
  8. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation. Volume 3: AZ. TO Weigel publishing house, Leipzig 1854, p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Bernay von Favancourt, Julius Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernay-Favancourt, Julius Joseph Graf von; Bernay de Favancourt et de Coussay, Julius Joseph Graf; Bernay de Favancourt and zu Coussay, Julius Joseph Graf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian major general
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Nancy
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1880
Place of death Graz