Karl Egon Eugen (Fürstenberg-Mößkirch)

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Count Karl Egon Eugen Joseph Christoph von Fürstenberg-Mößkirch (born November 2, 1665 in Meßkirch ; † October 14, 1702 in the Battle of Friedlingen ) was an Imperial Field Marshal lieutenant .

Life

When Karl Egon was six years old, his father died (September 1671) and he grew up under the tutelage of his mother and his uncle Froben Maria von Fürstenberg-Mösskirch in Vienna. When he was twenty, he and his brothers took over the inheritance of their father and uncle, who had recently passed away. Until 1702, the brothers administered the dominions together, then Karl Egon received the offices of Hüfingen and Löffingen as well as lands near Geisingen as a separate territory. Since he died in combat shortly afterwards and left no male offspring, a new branch of the Fürstenberg family was not established .

education

In 1675 Karl Egon began his education with his brothers, Froben Ferdinand and Friedrich Christoph, at the high school in Cologne , which he continued from November 1676 at the Jesuit- controlled Prague University . In 1680 the Fürstenbergers released Prague, which was ravaged by the plague, and continued their studies in Würzburg , which was also directed by Jesuits.

After Johann Ludwig Graf von Sulz had given the Fürstenbergers a subsidy towards travel expenses, they moved on to the University of Leuven at the end of 1680 . At the request of Uncle Froben Maria, special emphasis was placed on legal training. However, Karl Egon lagged behind the academic achievements of his older brothers.

In 1681 his uncle, Froben Maria, sketched three career paths for members of his family in an educational instruction

  • at the court (including the imperial courts)
  • in the service of the Church
  • at the military.

His nephews should walk these trails according to the order of their birth; H. for Karl Egon the military career was planned.

In 1682 Karl Egon and his brothers began their cavalier journey in Brussels, the capital of the Spanish Netherlands , which took them to Paris for about a year in 1684 . A trip to Italy followed in 1685/86.

Military career

From 1687 Karl Egon took part as a volunteer in the great Turkish war and distinguished himself on September 6, 1688 in the storming of Belgrade . After his regimental commander, Count von Scherffenberg , died in combat, Karl Egon took command and was wounded himself.

In the campaign of 1689 he fought as a captain under Guido von Starhemberg . With this experience of war, Karl Egon now applied to higher authorities, and in 1690 was on January 21, Lieutenant Colonel in the regiment of Count Herberstein nominated, but switched in the same year as Obrist sergeant to the regiment of Guido Starhemberg and made the campaign in Transylvania with where he fought under the command of Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden . In the absence of suitable positions in the imperial army, Karl Egon took over a newly established infantry regiment of the Swabian Imperial Circle and was appointed district colonel on May 2, 1691. On June 20, 1691, on Starhemberg's recommendation, he was also promoted to imperial colonel, but without receiving a position in the imperial army. In this way Karl Egon became a kind of liaison officer between the district troops and the imperial army.

After the French King Louis XIV had started the Palatinate War of Succession in 1688 , Emperor Leopold I shifted the main power of his troops to the west and Karl Egon was also deployed on the western front in the summer of 1691 and was captured by the French on August 7th in Pforzheim . After his return from Paris on August 30, 1692, he was appointed sergeant-general of the Swabian Empire and on April 3, 1693 he was appointed imperial sergeant-general. On December 7th, 1693 he was appointed General Field Marshal-Lieutenant by the Reichskreis . He succeeded Count Notger Wilhelm von Oettingen-Baldern .

On December 23, 1693 he was also his successor as Austrian general commander of Constance , Bregenz , Villingen , the four forest cities and the entire Black Forest. While the Fürstenberg relationship game was successful here, Karl Egon continued to deny the award of an imperial regiment, which he was striving for at the same time, because there were more influential applicants and the Fürstenberg family could not raise the necessary bribes.

On July 1, 1694, Emperor Leopold gave him the infantry regiment of Freiherr Friedrich von Stadel and the Swabian Reichskreis approved on September 7th that Karl Egon could keep the district regiment at the same time.

Up until the end of the Palatinate War of Succession (1697), Karl Egon had the main task of closing the Kinzig valley for French advances across the Black Forest. In the Peace of Rijswijk in 1697 it was determined that France should return the cities and fortresses Freiburg and Breisach to the empire. Karl Egon tried to command one of the two fortresses and was able to provisionally take over Freiburg from the French on July 11, 1697. However, he then had to hand over command to Prince Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt and Breisach was handed over to Johann Philipp von Arco in May 1770 - the Fürstenberg party at the Viennese court had lost.

By marrying a Countess Schwarzenberg , Karl Egon was able to improve his position at the Viennese court and around 1700 he personally intervened with the emperor against plans to dissolve his regiment. On January 27, 1700 he was promoted to Imperial Field Marshal Lieutenant and the beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1701 silenced all discussions about the dissolution of troops.

Battle of Friedlingen here Tüllinger Höhe (Käferholz)

On the night of October 1st to October 2nd, Karl Egon and his troops were still able to prevent the French General Villars from attempting to cross the Rhine near Hüningen - but on October 2nd this was no longer successful. Karl Egon now faced Villars with around 20,000 men and engaged in this artillery duel. Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden came on October 4th and took over the supreme command. Karl Egon commanded the infantry on the left wing in the Battle of Friedlingen on October 14, 1702 and was killed right at the beginning of the battle. He was buried in the family crypt in the Neudingen monastery.

Origin, marriage and offspring

Karl Egon was born as the son of Count Franz Christoph zu Fürstenberg-Mößkirch (born June 26, 1625; † September 22, 1671) and Maria Therese von Aremberg and Aremberg († January 18, 1705).

After the death of his father, the guardianship lay with his mother and his uncle Froben Maria von Fürstenberg-Mößkirch .

Karl Egon married Maria Franziska, Countess von Schwarzenberg († December 8, 1731) in Vienna in 1699, with whom he had three children:

  • Maria Eleanore Amalie (* November 25, 1699; † 1773) ∞ (1726) Ernst Joseph, Count Breuner von Stübing-Fladnitz (1694–1737)
  • Maria Ernestina Theresia (December 10, 1700 - January 27, 1772)
  • Karl Egon (January 5, 1702 - February 27, 1702)

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  1. ↑ sometimes also called ego instead of Egon; Mößkirch = Messkirch
  2. ^ Vice-President of the Reichshof Council since 1670
  3. ↑ s. Münch p. 169
  4. ↑ see Esteban Mauerer: Südwestdeutscher Reichsadel in the 17th and 18th centuries. Money, reputation, career: the Fürstenberg company . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001 ( pp. 33–45 and 74–82 )
  5. ↑ see Esteban Mauerer: Südwestdeutscher Reichsadel in the 17th and 18th centuries. Money, reputation, career: the Fürstenberg company . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001 ( pp. 216–238 )
  6. ↑ III. Catholic regiment on foot s. District troops from 1691
  7. ↑ In this appointment too, in addition to war merit, relationships and bribes to influential people played a role
  8. ↑ the Carniolan Infantry Regiment No. 17 was established in 1632 and recruited its crew in the Ljubljana area; s. Andreas Graf Thürheim: Memorial sheets on the war history of the k. and k. Austrian Army, Vienna and Teschen 1880, Volume I., p. 100
  9. ↑ s. Peace treaty Art. XIX. and XX.
  10. ↑ a decision that the emperor regretted bitterly when in 1703 Arco handed over the Breisach fortress to the French after a brief siege and was executed in 1704 for treason
  11. ↑ a daughter of Duke Philipp Franz (Arenberg)
personal data
SURNAME Karl Egon Eugen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karl Egon Eugen Joseph Christoph von Fürstenberg-Mößkirch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION imperial field marshal lieutenant
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH Messkirch
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1702
Place of death Battle of Friedlingen