Alessandro, Marquis de Maffei

Alessandro Ferdinando Francesco Marchese di Maffei ( born October 3, 1662 at Verona; † January 5, 1730 in Munich) was a general of the Bavarian army.

Life

Alessandro Maffei was the son of the Marquis Maffei Giovanfrancesco and Silvia Countess Pellgrini and brother of the scholar Scipione Maffei. His mother procured his admission at the Bavarian court, ruled on the Elector Ferdinand Maria and his wife Henriette Adelaide of Savoy. Nine-year he traveled to Munich and visited henceforth the Pagerie. Since he grew up in close company with the budding Elector Max Emanuel, a strong lifelong relationship of trust developed.

Alessandro Maffei made ​​a career in the army, worked in 1683 at the end of the Second Siege of Vienna by 1688 and in the storming of Belgrade. In 1686 he became colonel sergeant and electoral Chamberlain. 1689, now appointed lieutenant colonel, he fell in the Nine Years' War for eighteen months in French captivity.

Maffei in 1695 was promoted to colonel. The following year, he was given a regiment, which was 4,000 to 5,000 men strong ( " Regiment Maffei ").

After the outbreak of the Spanish Succession War, he was in 1703 General sergeant. On April 8, 1703, he took on the Stone Bridge, the keys of the imperial city of Regensburg in opposition to. In 1704 he was Commendant the Churfürstl. Capital and residence town Munich. In the same year he also took part in the Battle of Schellenberg. After the defeat he had to oversee the demobilization of the Bavarian army until he followed his commander and confidant Max Emanuel into exile. In 1710 he was Field Marshal - Lieutenant. In 1717 he was instrumental in the re- taking of Belgrade, for which he. , Emperor Charles VI was appointed to the Imperial Field Marshal - Lieutenant.

In the same year he married Maria Ursula Marquardi. In 1719, he went into retirement, wrote a military factory and still dealt with the transformation of his former regiment.