Maximilian Baillet from Latour

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Karl Anton Maximilian Joseph Count Baillet von Latour (French Comte de Baillet et de la Tour ) (born December 14, 1737 at Latour Castle near Virton ; † July 22, 1806 in Vienna ) was an Imperial and Royal Privy Councilor , treasurer and general of the cavalry . Most recently he was President of the Court War Council .

Maximilian Count Baillet von Latour

family

He comes from an old noble family from Burgundy , from which the older line under Philip the Good , Duke of Burgundy, settled in the Austrian Netherlands . The old nobility was confirmed by King Charles II of Spain on September 1, 1674. On March 10, 1719, the sex was raised to the count and the majorate La Tour in Luxembourg to a county .

Maximilian was the son of Jean Baptist Comte de Baillet et de la Tour (1711–1778). This was a member of the State Council of the Duchy of Luxembourg . His mother Maria (* 1713) was the daughter of Colonel Charles Gabriel Comte de Rozières from Lorraine. His younger brother Ludwig Wilhelm Anton Baillet de La Tour-Merlemont (1753–1836) was, like him, Feldzeugmeister in the imperial army. Maximilian himself married Charlotte de Guerin († 1806) in 1772, a daughter of Michel Remy Charles Comte de la Marche. The son Theodor emerged from the marriage.

Life

In 1755 he joined the Salm-Salm infantry regiment as an ensign. He took part in the Seven Years War . He distinguished himself at the Battle of Kolin in 1757 and was promoted to captain. This was followed in 1767 by promotion to major and in 1769 to lieutenant colonel . In 1772 he became a colonel and regiment owner , and in 1783 promoted to sergeant- general. He was temporarily in command of Wieliczka on the Polish border.

In 1787 he was transferred to the Austrian Netherlands. There he was also appointed Luxembourg Land Marshal in 1788. He made a significant contribution to the fact that the Duchy of Luxembourg continued to support the Habsburgs during the Brabant Revolution of 1789. In 1790 he was promoted to field marshal lieutenant and owner of the Chevaux-Legers Regiment No. 4 (Dragoon Regiment No. 2). During the fight against the insurgents in the Austrian Netherlands, he took part in various skirmishes and took, among others, Namur , Mons , Bourges and Ostend . In gratitude, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresa Order and appointed Commander in Flanders .

From 1792 he took part in the first coalition war. He fought in the Netherlands, on the Rhine and in southern Germany. He was one of the most important officers of the respective commander in chief, be it Albert Kasimir von Sachsen-Teschen or Archduke Karl . He fought, among other things, in 1793 in the battle of Neerwind and in 1794 in Fleurus . In 1795 it commanded the Main and Neckar armies and later the army gathered on the Upper Rhine. He drove the French back in several skirmishes, took Mannheim and won at Frankenthal . In the same year he received the Grand Cross of the Maria Theresa Order. Under Archduke Karl he led the former army of Dagobert Wurmser, weakened by the delegation of considerable contingents . The French forced him to cross the Neckar .

Promoted to Feldzeugmeister (general of the cavalry) in March 1796 , he then led the Rhine Army until the peace agreement. Latour commanded the left wing under Archduke Karl bei Malsch (July 9th) and in the Battle of Neresheim (August 11th), which worked successfully against the Brenz sector. His corps went back over the right bank of the Danube to deceive the French and was defeated at Friedberg on August 24th and pushed to the Lech . He was defeated on October 2nd by the stronger French near Biberach, but then, together with Archduke Karl , forced the French under Moreau to retreat across the Rhine in the battle of Schliengen . During the winter he besieged Kehl for seven weeks until the city surrendered .

In the following year 1797 he was Austrian plenipotentiary at the Rastatt Congress and signed the agreement with which the cession of Venice to Austria and the evacuation of the areas on the left bank of the Rhine by the imperial troops in the spirit of the peace of Campo Formio was regulated. A year later he was the commanding general in Austrian Silesia and Moravia. At the same time he was appointed to the secret imperial council. In 1805 he became President of the Court War Council.

In 1801 the count was awarded the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa for his services .

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Counts Baillet de Latour 1715

1719 : In the blue shield a swelling golden sail, which hangs down from a transverse golden rod. A helmet rises on the count's crown from which the right-seeing head of an animal grows up with the neck. The helmet covers are blue and gold, and the shield is held by two outward-looking black eagles. Older lacquer prints, which are surrounded by flags and numerous fittings, result in the coat of arms, and so the same can be found, but without helmet decoration, in the coat of arms book of the Austrian monarchy (Volume IV, 48, Volume XVIII of the mentioned work gives the shield in Tab. 3 divided lengthways). On the right there are three (2 and 1) black poppy heads in silver on long stalks with two green leaves, on the left in blue a golden swelling sail hangs down from three golden rings on a golden rod. The shield is covered by a 7-pearl marquise crown. - The genealogical pocketbook of the count's houses assumes a golden, swelling sail in blue, which hangs down on five golden rings from a similar transverse rod.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Grete Klingenstein et al. (Ed.): European Enlightenment between Vienna and Trieste - The Diaries of Governor Karl Graf Zinzendorf, Verlag Böhlau 2007 - Volume 103, Part 1 - p. 321.
  2. ^ Military Schematism of the Austrian Empire for 1867, K. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1867, p. 868.
  3. ↑ Schematism of the quays. Royal Armée: For the year 1807, publisher Cath. Gräffer, Vienna 1807, p. 365.
  4. ^ Oesterreichischer Militaer-Almanach No. 14 for the year 1803, Verlag Cath. Gräffer, Vienna 1803, p. 225.
  5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: "German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation", 2nd volume LZ, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1853, p. 15
personal data
SURNAME Baillet from Latour, Maximilian from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karl Anton Maximilian Joseph Graf Baillet von Latour (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian general
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH Latour Castle near Virton
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1806
Place of death Vienna