Household Division
Household troops were troops who were intended to do service for the person (usually a monarchical ) Head of State, and in particular for his personal safety responsibility in the original sense. Today household troops are still found in nearly all royal houses of the world, the most popular va the British Household Division, the Spanish Guardia Real, or the Papal Swiss Guard. With the exception of the latter house troops are nowadays mostly regular units or organizations that meet in addition to their representative and military tasks, but no longer responsible for the personal safety of members of the ruling family are ( this task is nowadays or by professional bodyguards from the ranks of police intelligence acquired ). Usually hold members of royal dynasties military honor ranks in the associations of their respective household troops, such an honor ranks are often awarded as a prize for foreign princes.
Historical
Household troops were already in front of the Persian kings and their satraps; later in Rome, palatinae under the early Caesars as a Praetorian or body guard of the emperors, under the late than copiae. The Turkish sultans household troops had such the Spahis, Janissaries and Thoptschis.
- Originated in France in 1493 as Ordonnanzkompanien household troops, which were separated in 1671 by Louis XIV 's troops as Maison militaire du roi; as such, they were up to the Revolution and 1816 bis 1830. Napoléon III. put the Cent Gardes in their place.
- In Brandenburg troops came home in 1542 as a Trabant Guard, which was dissolved in 1713. The Castle Guard Company (1861 emerged from the 1829 -founded Guard - Sergeant Company ) served until 1918 Prussia's kings.
- In Austria the Arcieren - bodyguard existed.
- In Bavaria existed the Hartschiere.
- In Russia, served in the 16th and 17th centuries, and the Druschine Strelitzen as household troops. Peter I disbanded all this and built from his former playmates a bodyguard, from which later the Preobraschenskische Guards Regiment was formed.