Stephan you Trossel
Stephan du Trossel , actually Étienne du Trossel (* 1657 in Languedoc ; † September 20, 1714 ) was a Prussian major general .
Life
Trossel comes from Montpellier and was one of the many refugees who came to Brandenburg in 1690 .
As early as 1687 he was a captain in the "Courneaud" battalion and in 1691 fought near Liège. In 1692 he became a lieutenant colonel and on February 27, 1702 a colonel in the "Varenne" regiment. On June 8, 1706 he was appointed major general and the following year he was appointed in command of Altena in the county of Mark . On October 20, 1708 he was appointed chief of the "von Schlabrendorf" No. 9 infantry regiment .
In 1713 he led a corps of three battalions and eleven squadrons of dragoons to the Upper Rhine in support of Prince Eugene . Trossel took winter quarters with the troops in Limburg .
He was involved in the campaigns in Italy, on the Rhine and in Brabant.
Trossel died unmarried in 1714. But he adopted the son of his sister Étienne Basset (* 25 August 1699, † 1760) as a child, in order to pass on the name.
literature
- Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 1, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632764 , p. 91, no. 160.
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Nobility Lexicon . Volume 4, 1837, p. 275 ( digitized version )
- Anton Balthasar König : Stephan du Trossel . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 4 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1791, p. 104 ( Stephan du Trossel at Wikisource [PDF]).
- Jean Pierre Erman , Pierre Christian Frédéric Reclam: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des réfugiés françois dans les États du roi. Volume 9, 1799, p. 108 ( digitized version )
- Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, 1909, third year, p.836f
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Dohna-Schlodien (Burgrave and Count zu), Rudolf Grieser: The Memories of Burgrave and Count Christoph zu Dohna (1665-1733). P. 260
- ^ Probably the judge Etienne Du Trossel (1699–1760) married Charlotte Rébotier, whose daughter Charlotte Isabelle Amélie Du Trossel (1754–1839) married the lawyer Carl Wilhelm von Lancizolle .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trossel, you Stephan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Trossel, you Etienne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian major general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1657 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 20, 1714 |