Pierre Simon Meyronnet

Pierre Simon Meyronnet, Baron de Saint-Marc , from 1808 Count von Wellingerode († September 10, 1812 in Paris ), was Grand Marshal of the Palace and State Councilor in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia .

Life

French Navy

Meyronnet came from a respected noble family in Provence . He joined the French Navy as a cabin boy at a young age and soon became an officer. He learned Jérôme Bonaparte during his service in the Navy 1802-1803 in the Caribbean know, served 1802-1803 as a lieutenant on the Brigg Épervier nominally under the command of 18-year-old Jerome Bonaparte was, and became his close associate. In 1803 he went to the USA with Bonaparte from Martinique . In the autumn of 1803, Jérôme, who was de facto a deserter at the time, sent him to France to obtain instructions on how to proceed, but initially ignored his brother's order to return home immediately, which Meyronnet brought in March 1804. Meyronnet stayed in Jérôme's area and only returned to France via Lisbon after a long delay in 1805 . When Jérôme was appointed commander of the 74-gun liner Vétéran soon after, in October 1805, he took his cronies Meyronnet and Le Camus on board. After his unauthorized return to France in August 1806, he took the two of them and Lieutenant Valentin de Salha with him to Paris.

Kingdom of Westphalia

When Jérôme became King of Westphalia by his brother's grace in August 1807 , Meyronnet (like Le Camus and de Salha) came with him to the royal seat of Kassel , where Jérôme made him colonel and grand marshal of the palace (i.e., upper court marshal ) in quick succession . When the Wellingerode estate fell back as a completed fiefdom in December 1807 with the death of Wilhelm Christoph Diede zum Fürstenstein , Jérôme gave it to Meyronnet and made him Count of Wellingerode on June 12, 1808; On April 23, 1812, Emperor Napoleon approved the appointment as Count of the Empire .

When the Austro-French War broke out in 1809, Meyronnet asked for a command and received from Jérôme the newly established Fifth Infantry Regiment in Magdeburg . When Halberstadt was stormed by the Black Crowd on July 29, 1809, after brave resistance, he was captured and then taken to England by Duke Friedrich Wilhelm . At the mediation of King Jérôme, he came back to Kassel in April 1810 as part of a prisoner exchange, where Jérôme appointed him Brigadier General and Captain General (Commander) of the Guards and awarded him the Order of Commander of the Order of the Westphalian Crown .

The major fire that destroyed the city palace in Kassel on the night of November 24, 1811 , is at least partially blamed on Meyronnet. He had been warned of the smell of fire on several occasions, but he dismissed the suspicion of fire hazard as silly. Then the fire, which had been smoldering for days, broke out and little could be saved from the flames.

When the war with Russia broke out in 1812, Meyronnet initially went to Russia as commander of the First Brigade of the 24th Division of the 8th Army Corps with Jérôme and the Westphalian Army, as part of the Grande Armée , but soon returned to Kassel with Jérôme as he refused to obey his brother's order to move on without a court.

death

He is said to have traveled from Kassel to Paris seriously ill and died there on September 10, 1812. (According to other reports, he did not die in Kassel until 1813.)

When the Kingdom of Westphalia was dissolved in 1813, the title of "Count of Wellingerode" expired and the Wellingerode estate fell back to the Electorate of Hesse as a state domain .

Notes and individual references

↑ Anciennes Familles de Provence: (de) Meyronnet

↑ The frigate captain and later Vice Admiral Emmanuel Halgan was his first officer and de facto nautical commander of the ship.

↑ Jérôme used the hurricane that dispersed the squadron of Vice Admiral Jean-Baptiste Willaumez in the Caribbean on August 18, 2006 , to return to France on his own.

↑ The description in the Historical Ortlexikon Hessen that Count von Fürstenstein sold the place to the Westphalian Marshal Boucheporn before 1807 and that the latter then called himself Count von Wellingerode is incorrect in several ways: (1) Pierre Alexandre le Camus , Count von Fürstenstein, was not the owner of the place; (2) The court marshal (not marshal) Francois de Boucheporn was raised to baron and is not identical to Pierre Simon Meyronnet, who was raised to count of Wellingerode in 1808.

↑ Les familles titrées et anoblies au XIX ^e Siècle ( Memento of the original of April 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

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SURNAME	Meyronnet, Pierre Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wellingerode, Pierre Simon Meyronnet, Count of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Politician and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH	18th century
DATE OF DEATH	September 10, 1812
Place of death	Paris

[1] Anciennes Familles de Provence: (de) Meyronnet

[2] The frigate captain and later Vice Admiral Emmanuel Halgan was his first officer and de facto nautical commander of the ship.

[3] Jérôme used the hurricane that dispersed the squadron of Vice Admiral Jean-Baptiste Willaumez in the Caribbean on August 18, 2006 , to return to France on his own.

[4] The description in the Historical Ortlexikon Hessen that Count von Fürstenstein sold the place to the Westphalian Marshal Boucheporn before 1807 and that the latter then called himself Count von Wellingerode is incorrect in several ways: (1) Pierre Alexandre le Camus , Count von Fürstenstein, was not the owner of the place; (2) The court marshal (not marshal) Francois de Boucheporn was raised to baron and is not identical to Pierre Simon Meyronnet, who was raised to count of Wellingerode in 1808.