Marc Marie Marquis de Bombelles

Marc Antoine Marie Marquis de Bombelles (born October 6, 1744 in Bitche , Lorraine , † February 22, 1822 in Paris ) was a French diplomat and clergyman . His father was tutor to the Duke of Orleans .

Life

Bombelles served in the French army during the Seven Years' War . In 1765 he switched to the diplomatic service. After various diplomatic missions that took him to the Perpetual Diet in Regensburg , among others , he became French ambassador to Portugal in 1786 .

At the beginning of 1789 he moved to Vienna . The French Revolution finally marked the end of his diplomatic career, as he was removed from office in September 1790. He remained Louis XVI. connected, and traveled on secret missions to various ruling princes in order to obtain their support for Ludwig. In 1792 he emigrated and (after the victory of the revolutionary army in Valmy) lived in seclusion in Switzerland at Schloss Warten . After the death of his wife, he entered the then Austrian monastery in Brno , was ordained a priest on August 14, 1803 and finally became dean of Oberglogau in Upper Silesia. In 1815 he returned to France. On September 17, 1817 he was elected Bishop of Amiens ; the papal confirmation followed on October 1st of the same year. The Archbishop of Reims , Jean-Charles de Coucy , donated him episcopal ordination on October 3, 1819 . Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Soissons , Jean-Claude Leblanc de Beaulieu , and the Bishop of Auxerre , Charles Mannay .

progeny

Bombelles had three sons. Ludwig Philipp von Bombelles , who was born in Regensburg, was an Austrian diplomat. He became ambassador to Denmark in 1814 and to Dresden in 1816 ; he was also a confidante of Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich . Heinrich Franz von Bombelles was an Austrian diplomat and educator of Emperor Franz Joseph . Charles-René de Bombelles (1785-1856) was chief steward and minister at the court of Parma and the third husband of Marie-Louise of Austria .

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Bombelles, Marc Marie Marquis von (In the son's article) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 3rd part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, p. 40 ( digitized version ).
Friedrich Buech: Christoph Wilhelm Koch (1737-1813). The last law teacher at the old Strasbourg university. A picture from the Alsatian scholarly life . In: Writings of the Scientific Institute of the Alsace-Lorraine in the Reich at the University of Frankfurt , New Series 17, Frankfurt 1936
Bombelles, Marc Marie, Marquis de . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 4 : Bishārīn - Calgary . London 1910, p. 190 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Entry on Marc Marie Marquis de Bombelles on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

^ Arthur Kobler: The Wartegg Castle - history, residents, guests . St. Gallen 2005, ISBN 3-9523018-0-9 (first edition 1995)

personal data
SURNAME	Bombelles, Marc Marie Marquis de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bombelles, Marc Antoine Marie Marquis de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French diplomat and bishop
DATE OF BIRTH	October 6, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bitche
DATE OF DEATH	February 22, 1822
Place of death	Paris

[1] Arthur Kobler: The Wartegg Castle - history, residents, guests . St. Gallen 2005, ISBN 3-9523018-0-9 (first edition 1995)