Ferdinand Charles, comte d'Aspremont-Lynden
Ferdinand Karl Gobert, Count of Aspremont - Lynden (* 1689 in Stavelot (now Belgium), † 1772) was a soldier in the service of the United Provinces and the Holy Roman Empire.
Biography
From Aspremont Lynden - was born in Stavelot in the Imperial Abbey of Stavelot - Malmedy 1699 in Froidcourt Castle (Château de Froidcourt ). He is the son of Ferdinand of Aspremont - Lynden Gobert. Count Karl von Aspremont Lynden - served the United Provinces as a dragoon Lieutenant van der Duyn 1708-1714. He met Prince Eugene and he entered the service of the Emperor Charles VI. in 1722 to the rank of Adjutant-General ad honorem. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel and colonel and commander of the Savoy Dragoons later, a position which he had acquired 1733-1737.
From 1733 to 1734 he was stationed in the area between the Rhine and the Moselle. From Aspremont Lynden - 1737 was promoted to General Field sergeant and took over as commander of the Dragoons, " Prince Eugene of Savoy " in the battle against the Turks from 1737 to 1738. In 1741 he was promoted to the rank of Feldmarschalleutnants.
He participated in the War of Austrian Succession in part as commander of the Imperial and Piedmontese army in Italy in 1743, which was a great success at the Battle of Campo Santo, Velletri and Piacenza from 1746 to 1747. where he stood in the Franco- Spanish command under the direction of Jean -Thierry du Mont, Count of Gages.
In 1747 he was appointed general of the cavalry, and in 1754 was promoted to field marshal. In 1760 he was appointed commander of the Hatschieren bodyguard and 1763 as commander of the first noble Arcieren bodyguard.
From Aspremont Lynden - was also a member of the Court War Council and Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece ( 1763).
Due to his services that he had acquired in his native country, Ferdinand Karl was a total of three times with women who all came from the mighty Austro-Hungarian noble families married: Princess Maria Theresa Esterházy Galantha, Maria Johanna Countess Nostic Rokinitz and Countess Henrietta Batthyány.
Iconography
- C. Drexler, Field Marshal Count Charles of Aspremont - Lynden, 1773, oil on canvas, 94 x 71.5 cm, signed and on the back of the (Vienna, Museum of Military History, BI 11.384 in. ).