Pere Joan Barceló i Anguera

Statue of Carrasclet in Capçanes

Pere Joan Barceló i Anguera (* 1682 in Marçà, Capçanes ; † September 3 or 4, 1743 in Breisach ) was a Catalan soldier. He was known as "Carrasquet" or - in today's Catalan spelling - "Carrasclet", d. H. “Coal seller,” alluding to his profession.

Life

As a supporter of the Habsburg camp , Barceló fought in the War of the Spanish Succession against the supremacy of the Spanish Bourbons , which stood for a centralist policy based on the French model. After the fall of Barcelona on September 11, 1714, Barceló laid down his arms and went into exile in Austria.

In the war of the Quadruple Alliance , Barceló fought against Spain in 1719, and also in 1734 - on the Habsburg side, with the rank of colonel - in the War of the Polish Succession on the Italian theater of war. The years between the campaigns he spent partly in Vienna, partly on an estate in Hungary, the Emperor Karl VI. had given him.

Subsequently in the service of the emperor, Barceló fell on a river island on the Rhine near Breisach on the night of September 3rd to 4th, 1743 , when Austrian troops tried to occupy the left bank of the Rhine under heavy French fire during the War of the Austrian Succession .

Carrasclet as a fictional character

In his 2015 novel Vae Victus , Albert Sánchez Piñol tells a few episodes from the life of Barceló / Carrasclet, especially from his last days.

literature

Josep Iglésies: El guerriller carrasclet . Rafael Dalmau, Barcelona 1961 (Catalan).

Footnotes

^ Ferran Soldevila: Història de Catalunya . 2nd, expanded edition. Editorial Alpha, Barcelona 1962, vol. 3, p. 1190 (Catalan).
↑ Vicenç Pascual i Rodríguez: Guerra i postguerra de Successió . Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, Barcelona 2010, ISBN 978-84-9883-306-5 , pp. 61-62 (Catalan).

Web links

Pere Joan Barceló i Anguera in the Enciclopedia Catalana
Pere Joan Barceló i Anguera, el Carrasclet ( Memento of October 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on TV3 .cat
Pere Joan Barceló on Biografías y Vidas
Prof. Vicente Moreno Cullell: Pere Joan Barceló i Anguera, el Carrasclet, cap de la resistència antiborbònica

personal data
SURNAME	Pere Joan Barceló i Anguera
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Carrasclet; Carrasquet; Barceló, Pere Juan; Barseló, Pera Joan; Barceló, Pedro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Catalan soldier in the War of the Spanish Succession
DATE OF BIRTH	1682
PLACE OF BIRTH	Marçà, Capçanes
DATE OF DEATH	September 3, 1743 or September 4, 1743
Place of death	Breisach

[1] Ferran Soldevila: Història de Catalunya . 2nd, expanded edition. Editorial Alpha, Barcelona 1962, vol. 3, p. 1190 (Catalan).

[2] Vicenç Pascual i Rodríguez: Guerra i postguerra de Successió . Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, Barcelona 2010, ISBN 978-84-9883-306-5 , pp. 61-62 (Catalan).