Body regiment

As Leibregiment 17th and 18th centuries were mainly in the Holy Roman Empire , in Denmark and Sweden those regiments called the regimental commander of the reigning sovereign was. He was also entitled to the income resulting from the regimental or company economy. A body regiment therefore had a fundamentally different function than the body guard . In the early modern period there were over 150 body regiments at Europe's royal courts. Later the designation Leibregiment became an honorary title, similar to the Guard Regiment .

The illustration shows a soldier of the royal Bavarian body regiment in front of the facade of the Munich Residence.

Examples:

• 1st Guards Regiment on foot (body regiment of the Prussian kings, although not included in the name)
• Royal Bavarian Infantry Body Regiment
• Royal Bavarian 10th Infantry Regiment "King Ludwig"
• 3rd Grand Ducal Hessian Infantry Body Regiment "Grand Duchess"

See also: Leibcompanie

literature

• Leo Ignaz von Stadlinger: History of the Württemberg warfare , K. Hofdruckerei zu Guttenberg Stuttgart, 1856
• Georg Tessin : The regiments of the European states in the Ancien Régime des XVI. to XVIII. Century . tape 2 . Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1995, ISBN 3-7648-1763-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ An overview of all body regiments, which mostly did not exist at the same time, can be found in Georg Tessin, Regiments of the European States , Vol. 2, 1995, pp. 179 ff.