Aeneas de Caprara

Count Aeneas Sylvius von Caprara (* 1631 in Bologna, † February 3, 1701 ) was an imperial field marshal in Habsburg service.

He was the son of the Bolognese senator Niccolò Caprara, Conte di Pantano, occurred early in imperial military service, and accompanied his relative, the Count Raimondo montecuccoli, whose campaigns against the Turks and the French. An independent command of a cavalry corps he received in 1674 on the Rhine and participated in the battles of Sinsheim and Enzheim as well as the other fights on the Rhine to 1678 part.

In 1683 he fought as commander of the cavalry against the insurgents in Hungary and drove in the liberation of Vienna from the enemy strongly entrenched Nußdorf. At the siege of Buda in 1684, he was added to the Elector of Bavaria. In 1685 he took the fortress Neuhäusel by storm, and in 1686 he came to the borders of Transylvania before.

In the third campaign of the French war in 1691, he commanded on the Rhine. 1692, he was with the Duke of Savoy in the Dauphiné, and in 1694 he commanded again in Hungary, where he repulsed all the attacks of the Turks to his position at Petrovaradin. After he had fought by in 44 campaigns, he became a Vice President in the Hofkriegsrat and counted here to the opponents of Prince Eugene of Savoy, as he was not very popular at all because of his sardonic and incompatible system under the State and ranking comrades. He died on 3 February 1701.