Ludwig von Herbeville
Ludwig Graf von Herbeville (also Herberville , erroneously also Erbeville ) (* 1635 ; † October 24, 1709 ) was Imperial Field Marshal .
Life
The von Herbeville family originally came from Lorraine.
In 1683 he set up the Coburg Dragoon Regiment , with which he was deployed as a colonel holder during the second Turkish siege of Vienna in front of the city. He also fought against the Ottomans in the Great Turkish War in Hungary . where he distinguished himself several times. In 1688 he was promoted to general field sergeant , in 1692 to field marshal lieutenant and in 1700 to general of the cavalry .
As part of the War of the Spanish Succession , he commanded a corps on the Bohemian border in 1702 and captured Amberg in 1703 . A year later he took Stadtamhof and Straubing . In the same year he was promoted to field marshal and appointed commander in chief in Hungary. In the Kuruzenkrieg in 1705 he defeated Franz II Rákóczi in two battles .
Herbeville then moved to Transylvania to support Ludwig Johann Bussy-Rabutin , who was in distress . He brought relief to Großwardein and won on November 11, 1705 at Sibo . He succeeded in bringing Cluj and the other permanent places in the region into his hands. Together with Bussy-Rabutin he summoned the Transylvanian estates in Sibiu to pay homage to the emperor.
In 1706 he resigned from command for reasons of age.
The field marshal was buried as the first layperson in the cathedral chapter crypt of the Frauenkirche in Munich .
literature
- CA Schweigerd: Austria's heroes and military leaders: from Maximilian I to the most recent times. Vol. 2 Grimma, 1853 p. 423f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Anton Mayer: The cathedral church to UL Frau in Munich , Munich 1868, p. 450; (Digital scan)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herbeville, Ludwig von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herbeville, Ludwig Graf von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | imperial field marshal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1635 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 1709 |