Louis Charles de Lameth

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Epitaph in the Frankfurt Cathedral

Ludwig Karl von Lameth , French Louis Charles Comte de Lameth (born October 20, 1723 ; † May 12, 1761 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a French maréchal de camp and quartermaster general of the French occupation forces in Frankfurt, during the Seven Years' War .

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The officer came from an old noble family from Picardy and was the son of Henri-Louis Marquis von Lameth and his wife Josèphe-Françoise Le Fournier de Wargemont.

In 1751 he married Thérèse de Broglie, daughter of the French Marshal François-Marie de Broglie .

As Mestre de camp and regimental commander (since 1752) Ludwig Karl von Lameth was awarded the Knight's Cross of the French Order of Louis in 1756 . On September 22, 1757 he was promoted to Brigadier des armes du roi , on February 20, 1761 to Maréchal de camp.

During the Seven Years' War, Frankfurt was under French occupation from 1759 to 1763, despite its neutrality. At that time, Lameth was general quartermaster of the French troops on the Lower Rhine, based in Frankfurt. The French in command there was Victor-François de Broglie , Lameth's brother-in-law, with whom he resided in the Frankfurt Palais Thurn und Taxis .

Death and burial

Ludwig Karl von Lameth died here on the morning of May 12th, 1761, shortly after 7 o'clock, of “hot fever”, which is an old name for typhus . His body was transferred in procession from the Palais Thurn und Taxis to the Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew on May 13th and buried there with great solemnity according to the Catholic rite. An ornate marble epitaph with a portrait medallion with a Latin and a French epitaph was placed in the cathedral. The Frankfurt sculptor Johann Daniel Schnorr (1717–1784) created it.

progeny

General Charles de Lameth (1757–1832) and his brother Alexandre de Lameth (1760–1829) were his sons, but because of his early death he had little influence on their upbringing and careers.

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  1. ↑ Henry de Woelmont: Notices GENEALOGIQUES , Volume 4, 1928 Scan to the survival data
  2. ↑ Genealogical website on parents
  3. ^ Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Courcelles: Histoire généalogique et héraldique des pairs de France , Paris, 1826, page 88 Scan from the source
  4. ^ François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois  : Dictionnaire généalogique, héraldique, chronologique et historique , Paris, 1761, page 386 Scan from the source
  5. ↑ Alexandre Mazas: Histoire de l'Ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis , Paris 1860, page 443; Scan from the source
  6. ↑ On the French occupation of Frankfurt during the Seven Years' War ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtgeschichte-ffm.de
  7. ^ Eduard Maria Oettinger: Moniteur des dates , Dresden, 1867, page 93 scan from the source
  8. ↑ On the meaning of: Heated fever
  9. ↑ Ordinari Munich Newspapers , No. LXXXI, from May 21, 1761 (pages 321 and 322 of the year); Scan from the source, circumstances of death and burial
personal data
SURNAME Lameth, Louis Charles de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lameth, Ludwig Karl von; Lameth, Louis Charles Comte de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman and field marshal
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1723
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1761
Place of death Frankfurt am Main