Philippe de Brueys
Philippe de Brueys , Baron de Bézuc, also Philippe de Brueis, Baron de Bezuc (born September 1682 , Château de Saint-Jean-de-Seirargues near Uzès , Gard , France ; † January 1, 1742 in Neuchâtel ), was a Prussian colonel and Prussian governor of the Principality of Neuchâtel .
He came from a distinguished French family who owned goods in Uzès (Languedoc). The main line resided there in the Saint-Jean castle.
Life
At the age of 16 he had to leave his country and came to live with relatives in Berlin as a refugee. There he joined the army under Wilhelm I. He took part in the Flanders campaigns and became a colonel in the Varenne Regiment (Infantry Regiment No. 13), a regiment that consisted exclusively of French refugees. He later became a Knight of the Order De la Générosité . In 1725 he became commandant of the Marinier Corps in Emden and commander of the Prussian troops in East Frisia . From there he was transferred in 1737 and appointed governor of Neuchâtel , where he died in 1742.
family
His parents were Jean-Jacques de Brueis, Seigneur de Bezuc-Fontcouverte and Isabeau de Froment, who married on December 22, 1647.
He was married to Margueritte Charlotte le Chenevix de Beville (Magdeleine Charlotte Le Chenevix) (born October 19, 1688 , Berlin , Grafschaft Mark ; † March 16, 1745 , Berlin) since 1720 (probably in Rheinsberg Castle ), daughter of Benjamin le Chènevix , Squire, lord of Béville, councilor to Elector Friedrich III. of Prussia, and his wife Marguerite de Froment de Monchy. She was an aunt of the Prussian general le Chenevix de Beville .
His older sister Anne de Brueis, Demoiselle de Bezuc, married Alexandre de la Tour du Pin-Gouvernet, Baron de Verfeuil , in France and fled to Berlin with him shortly after July 7, 1686, where she fled to Berlin in 1763 at the age of 89 died.
literature
- Erman, Jean Pierre & Reclam, Peter Christian Friedrich: Mémoires Pour Servir à l'Histoire des Réfugiés François dans les États du Roi - Tome 8 , Frédéric Barbiez, Berlin 1794, pp. 217–219 digitized
- New Prussian Nobility Lexicon , p. 232, digitized
- Dominique Quadroni: Brueys, Philippe de (de Bézuc). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français : Les Chiffres de M. Abbé Roquette. Études sur les Fugitifs du Languedoc (Usès) (1) . (application / PDF / TXT / JPEG) In: Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français (ed.): Bulletin Historique & Littéraire . LXI (61), No. 9 of the 5th series, Paris, 1912, pp. 322, 324-325. ark: / 12148 / bpt6k658029.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Can be found in the nobility lexicon under de Bezuc
- ↑ a b c SHPF (1912), p. 322 digitized
- ↑ Erman / Reclam (1794), p. 217 digitized
- ↑ a b SHPF (1912), p. 324 digitized
- ↑ Tileman Dothias Wiarda: Ostfriesische Geschichte: 1734-1758 . Volume 8, p. 17, digitized
- ↑ Berlin-Friedrichstadt, baptisms 1673–1704, p. 29
- ↑ a b Erman / Reclam (1794), p. 219 digitized
- ↑ SHPF (1912), pp. 325–326 digitized version
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brueys, Philippe de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Philippe de Bézuc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian governor of the canton of Neuchâtel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1682 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uzès , Languedoc |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1742 |
| Place of death | Neuchâtel (city) |