A Biographical Dictionary of all Austrian Generals during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

By Leopold Kudrna, with Biographical Essays by Digby Smith.

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Austrian Generals

1792-1815

B

Part 1

Baader to Beyer

B1	Baader, Joseph Johann Baader, Joseph Johann Ritter von

Personal Information
Born: Freiberg / Styria, 1733
Died: Ofen (Buda) / Hungary, 13.01.1810

Name Variants
also: Bader

Promotions
Major: 1776
Oberstleutnant: 09.1784
Oberst: 11.1788
Generalmajor: 01.01.1794 (w.r.f. 04.11.1791)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.03.1797 (w.r.f. 10.01.1797)

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Military Commander (?) in Carinthia (Klagenfurt): before 1798-1800/01
Fortress Commandant of Ofen (Buda): 1804/05 – 13.01.1810

Elevation of Status
Ritter: 21.02.1778

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
Frank 1, p.41 | MD 1, p.47 | MilSchem | ÖMKL 1, p.204 | Wurzbach 1, p.101

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B2	Bärenkopp, Johann Wenzel von Bärenkopp, Johann Wenzel Freiherr von

Personal Information
Born: Landskron (Lanškroun) / Bohemia, 02.07.1723
Died: Vienna, 12.06.1794

Name Variants
also: Bärnkopf, Bärenkopf, Baernkopp, Bernkopf

Family Status
Married: Maria Josepha von Sartory

Promotions
Major: 07.1757
Oberstleutnant: 30.11.1759
Oberst: 01.1761
Generalmajor: 27.04.1764
Feldmarschalleutnant: 28.01.1783 (w.r.f. 12.01.1768)
Feldzeugmeister: 08.09.1787 (w.r.f. 05.09.1787)

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 03.01.1761

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 23.01.1760
Colonel-Proprietor of the Artillery Regiment N°3: 05.1772 – 1792

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Printed Sources
Doerr, p.246 | Frank 1, p.45 | Gatti, ArtAk, p.47 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.91f. | Kneschke 1, p.172 | MilSchem | ÖMKL 1, p.211 | Sturm 1, p.41 | (Wrede) 4, p.477 | Wurzbach 1, p.118 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.35

Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale ("Stockar von Bernkopf" ?)

B3	Baillet de Latour, Maximilian Anton Karl Graf

Personal Information
Born: Latour Castle near Virton / Luxemburg / Austrian Netherlands, 14.12.1737
Died: Vienna, 22.07.1806

Name Variants
(French) Maximilien-Antoine-Charles-Joseph Comte de Baillet de Latour

Family Status
Brother of B5
Father of B4
Married: 1772 Charlotte-Sophie de Guérin de La Marche (17??-1806)

Promotions
Major: 1767
Oberstleutnant: 1769
Oberst: 1772¹
Generalmajor: 10.04.1783 (w.r.f. 28.03.1783)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 16.01.(?)1790 (w.r.f. 14.01.1790)
Feldzeugmeister: 04.03.1796

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General in Moravia and Silesia: 01.1799 – 03.1805
President of the Aulic War Council: 07.04.1805 – 22.07.1806

Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle at Sprimont: 18.09.1794 (–)
Commander of the Army of the Upper Rhine: 06.-08.1796
Commander of the (autonomous) Corps at the Upper Rhine: 06.-10.1796
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle at Friedberg: 24.08.1796 (–)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle at Biberach: 02.10.1796 (–)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle at Sundheim: 22.11.1796 (+)
Commander of the Army of the Rhine: 02.1797 – 04.1797 / 11.1797 – 01.1798

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 19.12.1790 / CC: 07.07.1794 / GC: 11.05.1796
Colonel-Proprietor of the Dragoon Regiment N°31 / (since 1791:) ChevauxlegerRegiment N°31 / (since 1798:) Dragoon Regiment N°11 / (since 1802:) Chevauxleger Regiment N°4: 1790 – 22.07.1806
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1798
I.R. Chamberlain: 1773

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
ADB 18, p.15f. | Bodart, p.297, 312, 314 | Englebert N°7 | Guillaume, p.164f. | Hirtenfeld 1, p.460ff. | HKR-Präs, N°25 (p.42f.) | MD 1, p.51 | Megerle, p.129 | MilSchem | NDB 13, p.683 | Petiot, p.46f. | Pickl, p.215 | Ritter, p.17(bis)ff. | Wurzbach 1, p.124f. | Wrede 3, p.222 | Wrede (6), pp.20, 30 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.37 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.4, 53, 128

Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/latour.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) Englebert / NDB: 1771 (?)

B4	Baillet de Latour, Theodor Franz Graf

Personal Information
Born: Linz / Upper Austria, 15.06.1780
Died: Vienna, 06.10.1848 (murdered)

Name Variants
(French) Théodore-François Comte de Baillet de Latour

Family Status
Son of B3
Nephew of B5
Married: 1816 Sophie Gräfin Bourcier de Montureux (1796-1889)

Promotions
Major: 1805
Oberstleutnant: 1809
Oberst: 30.01.1813
Generalmajor: 26.09.1814
Feldmarschalleutnant: 25.03.1831
Feldzeugmeister: 19.10.1846

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Austrian Plenipotentiary with the Military Central Commission at the German Diet in Frankfurt: 1829-1832
Vicedirector-General of Engineers: 09.1832 – 04.1848
Minister of War: 30.04.1848 – 06.10.1848

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 02.09.1813
Colonel-Proprietor of the Artillery Regiment N°3: 1825-1832
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°28: 12.1832 – 06.10.1848
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1834
I.R. Chamberlain: 1806

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Baden:
Order of Fidelity: 1841
France:
Order of the Legion d’Honneur – OC: 1819
Hessen-Darmstadt:
Order of Ludwig – CC
Russia:
Order of St. George 4th cl.: 15.[03.]08.1814
Order of St. Vladimir 3rd cl.: 1813 / 2nd cl.: ?
Württemberg:
Order of Frederick (?): 1832
Order of Military Merit – CC: 1814

Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Theodor Graf Baillet de Latour entered the Wiener-Neustadt military academy and passed out in 1799 as Oberleutnant in the engineers. He was at Marengo on 14 June 1800 and at Ulm in 1805. In 1809, he served in Archduke Ferdinand's VIII Corps in Galicia. In 1812 Baillet-Latour was on the staff of the Austrian corps in Russia and was distinguished. In the summer of 1813, he commanded the Infantry Regiment N°12 "Liechtenstein". He fought at Dresden and at Leipzig, where he won the Russian Order of Vladmir. In 1814 and 1815, Baillet-Latour served as Chief of Staff to the Crown Prince of Württemberg in IV Corps and fought at La Rothiére, Sens, Montereau, Arcis-sur-Aube, Champenoise and Paris.

Printed Sources
ADB 18, p.16f. | Gatti, IngAk, p.392 | Hirtenfeld 2, p.1085ff. | HKR-Präs, N°35 (p.58ff.) | Leitner 2, p.185ff. | MD 1, p.51 | MilSchem | NDB 13, p.683f. | ÖBL 1, p.45 | Pickl, p.219 | Petiot, p.47 | Schmedes, IR28, p.189, 291f. | Svoboda 1, col.232 | Wrede 1, p.316 | (Wrede) 4, p.477 | Wrede (6), p.20 | Wurzbach 1, p.125f. | WZ, 30.01.1813, 20.02.1814 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.43 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.13

Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/latour2.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Vederman

B5	Baillet de Latour-Merlemont, Ludwig Wilhelm Anton Graf

Personal Information
Born: Latour Castle near Virton / Luxemburg / Austrian Netherlands, 12.02.1753
Died: Brussels (Bruxelles) / Belgium, 01.09.1836

Name Variants
(French) Louis-Willibrod-Antoine Comte de Baillet de Latour-Merlemont

Family Status
Brother of B3
Uncle of B4
Married: Charlotte-Angélique-Julienne de Baillet, Baronne de Gesve

Promotions
Major: 09.05.1783¹
Oberstleutnant: 05.12.1783²
Oberst: 02.02.1788
Generalmajor: 01.01.1794³ (w.r.f. 10.12.1791)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.03.1797 (w.r.f. 26.01.1797)
Feldzeugmeister: 06.09.1808
Quit: 19.10.1810
Into French service:
General of Division: 06.03.1811

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Military Commander in Upper Austria (Linz): 04.1801 – 02.1806
Commanding General in Inner Austria: 12.1806⁴ – 10.1807

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°63: 21.04.1801 – 20.07.1807
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°63: 20.07.1807 – 01.12.1810⁵
I.R. Chamberlain: 1790

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
France:
Military Order of St. Louis – KC: 08.07.1814

Printed Sources
Beran IR55, pp.53, 88 | Courcelles 1, p.275 | Guillaume, p.256 | MilSchem | Nahlik, IR55, pp.1f., 29, 39 | Petiot, p.48 | Six 1, p.43 | Wrede 1, p.503 | WZ, 18.11.1807, 21.09.1808 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.38 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.54, 73

Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/baillet.html)
Saint-Louis
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) Guillaume: 09.03.1783 (?)
²) Guillaume: 05.12.1785 (?)
³) Petiot: 01.07.1794 (?)
⁴) Petiot: 03.1806 (?)
⁵) Supreme Imperial permission to quit: 21.10.1810 (Beran, IR55, p.88)

B6	Bajalics, Adam von Bajalics von Bajaháza, Adam Freiherr

Personal Information
Born: Szegedin (Szeged) / Com. Csongrád / Hungary, 1734
Died: Karlstadt (Karlovac) / Croatia, 05.06.1800¹

Name Variants
also: Bajalich / also: Bajaházy

Promotions
Major: ~ 1778
Oberstleutnant: 1783
Oberst: 28.02.1789
Generalmajor: 01.01.1794 (w.r.f. 14.12.1791)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.03.1797 (w.r.f. 01.02.1797)
Retired: 1797

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 10.09.1782 (with predicate: "von Bajaháza")

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 11.10.1795

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
In 1750 Bajalics entered the Infantry Regiment 'Erzherzog Ferdinand' N°2 but left the army four years later. In 1758, he entered the Warasdiner Grenz-Infantry Regiment as a lawyer. Two years later (1760) he became a Leutnant and fought in the Seven Years War. In 1768 he was promoted to Capitän-Leutnant, 1773 to Hauptmann and after the War of the Bavarian Succession, to Major. In 1783, Bajalics was Oberstleutnant in the Szluiner Grenz Infantry Regiment. In the war against the Turks (1787-1792) he was several times distinguished. After his promotion to GM (1794) Bajalics commanded a brigade on the Upper Rhine under General der Kavallerie Graf Wurmser. On 24 September 1795, he was again distinguished in the victory at Handschuhsheim, for which he earned the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order. On 30 May 1796, Bajalics was ordered to take his brigade (Infantry Regiments Nos 11 and 26 and the Mahoney Jägers) via Bregenz into the Tyrol to make the attempt to try to relieve Wurmser in Mantua. The following year (1797) he commanded a division at Rivoli on 14/15 January and was promoted to FML.
During the retreat out of Italy in March 1797, Bajalics was part of the right wing together with GM Vinchant de Gontroeul. They went via Udine, Cividale and Caporetto, up the valley of the Isonzo to Tarvis. Erzherzog Carl, with the divisions of Hohenzollern and Reuss, took the eastern route via Gradiska and Görz to Laibach. On 21 March, Massena's Avantgarde had pushed GM Ocskay out of Tarvis and now blocked the Austrian escape route. Austrian general Gontroeul attacked and pushed the French back to Saifnitz, but next day, he was assaulted by Massena; defeated with heavy loss and thrown back through Tarvis, towards Villach. Bajalics (and Köblös) were still on the wrong side of Tarvis. On 23 March with the divisions of Massena, Guyeux and Serrurier closing them in, both were forced to surrender with 4,000 men, 25 guns and 500 waggons. On 31 March, in St. Veith, Napoleon opened negotiations for peace as he was now dangerously over-extended and the French armies on the Rhine could not come into action to aid him. Bajalics retired in 1797 and died in 1800 in Karlstadt, Croatia.

Printed Sources
Frank 1, p.46 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.446f. | Kneschke 1, p.175 (wrong: Freiherr in 1783) | MD 1, p.51 | MilSchem | ÖMKL 1, p.216 | Wurzbach 1, p.123

Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/bajalich.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) MilSchem: 30.06.1800 (?)

B7	Bakonyi, Emerich Bakonyi, Emerich Freiherr von

Personal Information
Born: Levenz (Léva) / Com. Bars / Hungary, 17.07.1768
Died: Komorn (Komárom) / Hungary, 24.01.1845

Promotions
Major: 2nd H. 1800
Oberstleutnant: 11.1805
Oberst: 05.03.1809
Generalmajor: 06.10.1812
Feldmarschalleutnant: 09.12.1826

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General ad interim in Lower and Upper Austria and Salzburg: 07.-10.1830
Fortress Commandant of Komorn: 1832 – 24.01.1845

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 11./12.1812

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 1810
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°33: 1823 – 24.01.1845
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1844

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Russia:
Order of St. George 4th cl.: 06.10.[24.09.]1815

Printed Sources
Hirtenfeld 1, p.931ff. | MD 1, p.51 | MilSchem | ÖBL 1, p.45 | ÖMKL 1, p.218ff. | ÖMZ, year 1845, vol.3, p.253ff.: Biographische Skizze des kaiserl. königl. Feldmarschall-Lieutenants Emerich Freiherrn von Bakonyi | Rupprecht, IR60, pp.54, 57 and appendix, p.13 | Wrede 1, p.353 | Wurzbach 1, p.128f. | WZ, 26.11.1812, 05.12.1812, 18.10.1815 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.49

Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Vederman

B8	Balabio, Karl von

Personal Information
Born: Milan (Milano) / Lombardy, 14.04.1759
Died: Milan (Milano) / Lombardy, 08.08.1837

Name Variants
(Italian) Carlo Cavaliere di Balabio
also: Ballabio

Promotions
Italy:
General of Brigade: 1810
Into Austrian service: 01.04.1815
Generalmajor: 01.04.1815
Retired: 01.04.1815

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
France:
Order of the Legion d’Honneur – KC
Italy (France):
Order of the Iron Crown 2nd cl.

Printed Sources
MD 1, p.51 (wrong: d. 18.08.1837) | MilSchem | WZ, 15.04.1815

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Wikipedia [= http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_dei_generali_italiani_(1800-1815) ].- Download: 19.08.2008

B9	Bánffy de Losoncz, Georg Graf

Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Klausenburg (Kolozsvár, Cluj-Napoca) / Transylvania, 02.04.1832

Family Status
Married: Anna Kemény de Magyargyerömonostor (?-1835) (?)

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 01.11.1807
Oberst: 1809
Generalmajor: 09.09.1809
Retired and quit: 1810

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Printed Sources
Blažekovič, IR31, I, pp.256, 267 | MilSchem | WZ, 18.11.1807, 23.12.1809

Internet Sources
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/banffy8.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B10	Baranyai de Bodorfalva, Johann

Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Raab (Györ) / Hungary, 17.07.1798

Promotions
Major: 1760
Oberstleutnant: 30.06.1771
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 08.05.1779 (w.r.f. 05.05.1779)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
Amon, HR1, pp.57, 496 | MilSchem

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B11	Barbaczy, Joseph von

Personal Information
Born: 1750¹
Died: Preßburg (Pozsony, Bratislava) / Hungary, 17.06.1825

Promotions
Major: 01.10.1787
Oberstleutnant: 1793
Oberst: 1797
Generalmajor: 27.05.1801 (w.r.f. 23.05.1801)
Retired: 27.05.1801

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Printed Sources
ADB 2, p.46ff. | MilSchem | Nekrolog 1825/2, p.1628 | ÖBL 1, p.50 | ÖMKL 1, p.232 (wrong: d. 25.06.1826)

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) ÖMKL: Gran, 1748 (?)

B12	Barbiano-Belgiojoso, Albert (XII.) Maria Fürst von

Personal Information
Born: Milan (Milano) / Lombardy, 20.10.1725
Died: Milan (Milano) / Lombardy, 27.08.1813

Name Variants
(Italian) Alberico (XII.) Maria Giuseppe da Barbiano, Principe di Belgioioso

Family Status
Brother of B13
Married: 1757 Anna Ricciardia d’Este, Principessa di Modena e Reggio (1735-1777)

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 24.04.1771 (w.r.f. 01.09.1771)
Quit: 01.1797

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of the Golden Fleece: 23.11.1790
I.R. Privy Councillor

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Italy (France):
Order of the Iron Crown ? cl.: 1806
Spain:
Grandee of Spain

Printed Sources
MD 1, p.56 | MilSchem | Vlies-Orden, p.186, N°825

Internet Sources
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/italy/barbiano2.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Shamà

B13	Barbiano-Belgiojoso, Ludwig Karl Graf von

Personal Information
Born: Milan (Milano) / Lombardy, 02.01.1728
Died: Milan (Milano) / Lombardy, 15.05.1801

Name Variants
(Italian) Ludovico Carlo Maria da Barbiano, Conte di Belgioioso

Family Status
Brother of B12

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.05.1773 (w.r.f. 31.01.1773)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 10.04.1783 (w.r.f. 26.04.1783)
Retired: 23.08.1787
Quit: 1797

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Minister plenipotentiary in Sweden¹: 27.08.1764 – 08.02.1770 (departure: 13.03.1770) ²
Envoy extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary in Hannover (Great Britain-Hannover): 31.10.1769 – 20.11.1782
Envoy extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary in Great Britain³: 08.06.1770 – 20.11.1782 ⁴ (departure: 28.12.1782)
Vice-Governor (Minister plenipotentiary) in the Austrian Netherlands: 29.01.1783 – 23.08.1787

Order of Chivalry
Knight of the Order of Malta: 1735

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°41: 1777-1778
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°44: 1778-1797
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1775
I.R. Chamberlain: 1755

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
Dauber, p.20, 187 (with erroneous dates) | Matsch, pp.114, 124 | MD 1, p.56 | MilSchem | Pickl, p.213 | Repertorium 3, pp.76, 77, 83 | Wrede 1, p.408

Internet Sources
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/italy/barbiano2.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Shamà

Notes
¹) absence on leaf: 09.06.1767 – 20.06.1769
²) Matsch, p.124: 28.04.1764 – 31.10.1769 (?)
³) absence on leave: 15.01.1777 – 30.08.1777 / 07.09.1782 – 27.09.1782
⁴) Matsch, p.114: 10.03.1770 – 06.08.1782 (?)

B14	Barco, Anton Freiherr von

Personal Information
Born: Vienna, 1747
Died: 17.10.1799

Family Status
Son of B15

Promotions
Major: 10.10.1773
Oberstleutnant: 12.1779
Oberst: 15.11.1788
Generalmajor: 01.01.1794¹ (w.r.f. 29.10.1791)
Retired: 28.02.1797

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr (by elevation of B15): 03.05.1762

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
Amon, DR10, pp.75, 86, 96 | Anonym, DR2, pp.231, 277, 285 | MilSchem | ÖMKL 1, p.232f.

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) Anonym, DR2, p.285: 23.12.1793 (?)

B15	Barco, Vincenz von Barco, Vincenz Freiherr von

Personal Information
Born: Wirowititz (Weretz, Verovitja, Virovitica, Veröce) / Slavonia, 1719¹
Died: Pest / Hungary, 11.05.1797

Family Status
Father of B14

Promotions
Major: 1756
Oberstleutnant: 1757
Oberst: 1758
Generalmajor: 19.01.1771² (w.r.f. 27.08.1759)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 01.05.1773 (w.r.f. 03.09.1772)
General der Kavallerie: 10.11.1788 (w.r.f. 30.09.1787)

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Hungary: 02.1788 – 09.1790 / 01.1793 – 09.1794
Commanding General ad interim in Hungary: 09.1794 – 11.05.1797

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 03.05.1762

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 22.12.1761
Decoration of the Elisabeth Theresian Military Foundation: 1789
Colonel-Proprietor of the Hussar Regiment N°35: 01.05.1773 – 11.05.1797
I.R. Privy Councillor

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
Amon, HR10, pp.50f., 73, 75, 176 | Auer, N°12 | Frank 1, p.53 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.132f. | Kneschke 1, p.194 | Megerle, p.273ff. (wrong: FML in 1775) | MilSchem | ÖMKL 1, p.232f. | Pizzighelli, DR5, pp.33, 37, 252, 254 | Wrede 3, p.287 | Wurzbach 1, p.156 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.36 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.56

Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) Amon, DR10, p.176 / Hirtenfeld: 1718 (?)
²) Amon, DR10, p.73: 31.12.1770 (?)

B16	Bardarini von Kieselstein, Franz

Personal Information
Born: 29.12.1738
Died: Fiume (Rijeka), 08.03.1821

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1807
Generalmajor: 27.04.1810
Retired: 27.04.1810

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Printed Sources
Leitner 2, p.59 | MilSchem | WZ, 18.11.1807, 15.08.1810

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B17	Batschek, Karl von

Personal Information
Born: around 1715
Died: Vienna, 23.03.1802

Promotions
Major: 1762
Oberstleutnant: 1773
Oberst: 1783
Generalmajor: 29.11.1788 (w.r.f. 27.11.1788)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 06.05.1801 (w.r.f. 25.04.1801)

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Local Director of the Academy of Engineers: 11.1788 – 04.10.1790

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
Blasek/Rieger 1/I, p.379 | Gatti, IngAk, p.346, 349 | MilSchem | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.37

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale (wrong: d. 23.03.1806)

B18	Batthyány, Philipp Ulrich Joseph Graf von

Personal Information
Born: Rechnitz / Com. Eisenburg (Vas) / Hungary, 18.10.1734¹
Died: Hainburg / Lower Austria, 28.04.1795

Family Status
Married: 1763 Barbara Freiin Perényi (1723 – around 1792)

Promotions
Major: 25.11.1758
Oberstleutnant: ~ 1759
Oberst: 10.10.1760
Generalmajor: 21.07.1767 (w.r.f. 11.12.1764)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
I.R. Privy Councillor: 22.09.1771

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
MD 7, p.17 | MilSchem | Polster, Gert: Von Soldaten, Prälaten und Magnaten ... Die Söhne des Palatins von Ungarn Ludwig Ernst Graf Batthyány, Diploma thesis, Vienna 1998, p.100ff. | WZ, 28.09.1771

Internet Sources
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/batth2.html) (wrong: b. 17.11.1735)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale (wrong: b. 17.11.1735)
Theroff (http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/batthyany.html) (wrong: b. 17.11.1735)

Notes
¹) Polster, p.100: "Der 18. Oktober 1734 ist daher als Geburtstag anzunehmen." (The 18th of october 1734 is to be assumed as the date of birth.)

B19	Baudis, Joseph von

Personal Information
Born: Preßburg (Poszony, Bratislava) / Moravia, 19.03.1751
Died: Wiener Neustadt / Lower Austria, 09.11.1801

Name Variants
also: Baudisch

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 17.04.1800 (w.r.f. 20.05.1800)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
Leitner 2, p.95 | MilSchem | Svoboda 1, col.61

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B20	Bauer, Johann (Matthias?) von

Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Ödenburg (Sopron) / Hungary, 20.10.1810

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor (title): 09.03.1796 (w.r.f. 02.03.1796)
Retired: 09.03.1796

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
MilSchem

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B21	Beaulieu de Marconnay, Johann Peter Beaulieu de Marconnay, Johann Peter Freiherr

Personal Information
Born: Lathuy Castle / Jodoigne / Austrian Netherlands, 26.10.1725
Died: Linz / Upper Austria, 22.12.1819

Name Variants
(French) Jean-Pierre Baron Beaulieu de Marconnay

Family Status
Married: 1763 Marie-Louise Robert (17??-1776)

Promotions
Major: ~ 1757
Oberstleutnant: 1760
Oberst: 1768
Generalmajor: 31.05.1790 (w.r.f. 14.03.1789)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 19.10.1790
Feldzeugmeister: 04.03.1796

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Vice-Governor of Mecheln: 1768-1788
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff: 08.1794 – 12.1795

Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle of Courtray: 15.09.1793 (+)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of Cursoy: 19.05.1794 (+)
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of the Army of the Netherlands: 08.1794 – 04.1795
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of the Army of the Rhine: 04.-08.1795
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of the Army of the Lower Rhine: 08.-12.1795
Chief of the Quartermaster General Staff of the Army of Italy: 01.-03.1796
Commander of the Army of Italy: 17.03.1796 – 21.06.1796
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle of Lodi: 10.05.1796 (–)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle of Borghetto: 30.05.1796 (–)

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 14.03.1763

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 23.01.1760 / CC: 19.12.1790 / GC: 07.07.1794
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°31: 04.08.1792 – 01.05.1794
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°58: 01.05.1794 – 22.12.1819

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Johann Peter Freiherr Beaulieu de Marconnay entered Austrian military service in 1733. In the Seven Years War (1756-1763) he served on FM Loudon's staff. At the beginning of the Revolutionary Wars he served in the Netherlands and fought one of the first engagements of the war when he beat GL Armand-Louis de Biron at Mons on 29 April 1792. On 13 September his late arrival to support the Dutch at Menin led to the collapse of the allied campaign for that year. He commanded the left wing in the Austrian defeat at Jemappes on 6 November 1792.
In 1794 FML Beaulieu served in the Netherlands under Coburg. Two years later (1796), at the age of 72, he was appointed Feldzeugmeister and Commander-in-Chief of the army in Italy. His command consisted of the divisions of Argenteau and Sebottendorf (36,000 Austrians and 1,500 Neapolitan cavalry). Also in Italy were FML Colli's Austrian and Sardinian corps of 20,000 men. Nelson's squadron of the Royal Navy supported his southern flank. Beaulieu was opposed by 43,000 French troops. Beaulieu tried to concentrate his corps too close to the enemy; fought at Voltri on 10 April and Montenotti on the next two days, but lost the initiative to Napoleon and fell back to Aqui. Here he seems to have been in shock because he failed to issue any orders from 10 to 14 April. These days of paralysis caused the disasters of Dego and 6,000 casualties. This sharp defeat knocked the Sardinians out of the campaign and Napoleon cut Colli's 5,000 Austrians off from Beaulieu. The balance of forces and the strategic situation thus swung badly against Beaulieu; he had now only 30,000 men (and of these Colli's 5,000 were cut off) to face 45,000 under Napoleon and Kellermann. Piedmont was thus evacuated and on 2 May the Austrians fell back over the Po at Valenza.
Napoleon crossed the river – unopposed, but observed by two squadrons of GM Liptay's cavalry – at Piacenza on 7 May. Beaulieu's forces were surprised and not concentrated. On 8 May Liptay was attacked and thrown back at Fombio and lost 600 men. His corps dissolved in the following chase. Beaulieu worsened the situation by further dispersing his forces although he did pull back over the River Adda intact.
On 10 May, Sebottendorf's brigade was attacked and beaten at Lodi on the Adda by Napoleon with Massena's and Serrurier's divisions. Augereau's division came up in the latter stages of the fight. GM Schubirz had left Lodi before the attack, to fall further back according to Beaulieu's orders. Napoleon did not press the pursuit. Sebottendorf lost 2,000 men and 15 guns. Beaulieu fell back past Mantua (throwing 20 of his best battalions into the fortress) and behind the Mincio River. This brought the garrison of Mantua up to 13,000 men. Beaulieu now had 31,000 troops in all under his command. He set up his new HQ in St Giorgio near Borghetto. His next line of withdrawal lay to the north, up the valley of the Etsch into the Tyrol and ran parallel to the Mincio. There was a final, minor clash on 30 May at Borghetto on the Mincio; Beaulieu was sick on the day of the action. The Austrian forces were strung out along the riverbank in penny packets, at Borghetto itself was only one battalion and three squadrons of Sebottendorf`s brigade. The bridge there was still intact. When the French assault began, the Austrians managed to break the bridge, but the French followed some of their cavalry outposts through a ford close by. The thin line was quickly pierced by Colonel Gasparde-Armádée Gardanne. Beaulieu withdrew without great loss. In June he resigned his command, handed it over to Melas and withdrew to his estate near Linz, where he lived until his death in 1819.

Printed Sources
ADB 2, p.191f. | Blažekovič, IR31, I, pp.147f. (wrong: b. Namur), 167 | Bodart, p.279, 289, 307, 308 | BU 3, p.392f. | Englebert N°8 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.402ff. | MD 1, p.68 | MilSchem | ÖBL 1, p.60 | ÖMKL 1, p.268ff. | ÖMZ, year 1820, vol.3, p.172ff.: Schels, Johann Baptist: Beaulieus Nekrolog (= Ritter, p.147pp.) | Regele, p.29 | Ritter, p.147pp. (= ÖMZ, year 1820, vol.3, p.172ff.) | Vegiano-Herckenrode 1, p.125 | Wrede 1, pp.338, 524 | Wrede (6), pp.30, 41 | Wurzbach 1, p.199f. | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.37 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.108, 109

Internet Sources
Bastin (http://www.nobily.be/GENEALOGIE/pafg3031.htm)
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/beaulieu.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B22	Bechard, Johann von Bechard, Johann Freiherr von

Personal Information
Born: Szegedin (Szeged) / Hungary, 17.08.1761
Died: Brod / Slavonia, 28.12.1813

Promotions
Major: 1794
Oberstleutnant: 1796¹
Oberst: 1799²
Generalmajor: 15.08.1808

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Brod: 10.1812 – 28.12.1813

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr (by elevation of his father): 02.05.1761

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 30.04.1802

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
Blasek/Rieger 1/I, p.395 | Frank 1, p.63 | Gatti, IngAk, p.301f. | Hirtenfeld 1, p.717f. | Leitner 2, p.98f. | MilSchem | MD 1, p.68 | ÖMKL 1, p.270f. | Svoboda 1, col.74 | Wurzbach 1, p.206 | WZ, 03.09.1808, 28.11.1812, 03.06.1814

Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) Blasek/Rieger 1/I, p.395: 1799 (?)
²) Blasek/Rieger 1/I, p.395: 1802 (?)

B23	Bechtold, Philipp Christoph Bechtold, Philipp Christoph Freiherr von

Personal Information
Born: "Spengenberg" (Spangenberg ?) / Hessen(-Kassel), 1747
Died: Güns (Köszeg) / Com. Eisenburg (Vas) / Hungary, 02.01.1818

Promotions
Major: 03.1799
Oberstleutnant: 01.01.1807
Oberst: 07./08.1808
Generalmajor: 26.04.1811
Retired: 26.04.1811

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 17.06.1795

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 07.07.1794

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Printed Sources
Frank 1, p.63 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.432ff. | Kneschke 1, p.250 | MD 1, p.70 | MilSchem (wrong: d. 02.06.1818) | ÖBL 1, p.60 | ÖMKL 1, p.272 (wrong: "Philipp Christian") | Wurzbach 1, p.209 | WZ, 03.08.1808

Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B24	Beck, August Ritter von

Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: 01.02.1816

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 22.09.1813
Retired: 07.10.1815

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
MilSchem

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B25	Beckers zu Westerstetten, Joseph Heinrich Ritter Beckers zu Westerstetten, Joseph Heinrich Graf

Personal Information
Born: 02.12.1764
Died: Ofen (Buda) / Hungary, 15.01.1840

Family Status
Married: 1815 Natalie Freiin von Rothkirch-Trach (1792-1846)

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 30.03.1813
Feldmarschalleutnant: 28.12.1824

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Grand Master of the Household to Archduke Joseph of Austria, Palatin of Hungary: 08.1816 – 1827

Elevation of Social Status
Graf: 24.09.1790

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
I.R. Privy Councillor
I.R. Chamberlain: 1806

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Printed Sources
Kneschke 1, p.261f. | MD 1, p.70 | MilSchem | Pickl, p.219 | WZ, 08.06.1813, 15.08.1816

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B26	Belcredi, Joseph Marchese

Personal Information
Born: 1753
Died: Graz / Styria, 22.11.1811

Name Variants
(Italian) Giuseppe Marchese di Belcredi

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor (title): 15.09.1808
Retired: 15.09.1808

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 03.09.1808

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B27	Belcredi, Karl Marchese

Personal Information
Born: Milan (Milano) / Lombardy, 28.03.1744
Died: 13.09.1814

Name Variants
(Italian) Carlo Marchese di Belcredi

Promotions
Major: 1794
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 1800
Generalmajor: 12.06.1801 (w.r.f. 09.05.1801)
Retired: 1801

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
Frank 1, p.68 | Leitner 2, p.69f. | MilSchem | Svoboda 1, col.34

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Wikipedia [= http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_dei_generali_italiani_(1800-1815) ].- Download: 19.08.2008

B28	Bellegarde, Friedrich Joseph Anton Graf von

Personal Information
Born: (Chambéry / Savoy ?), 25.03.1752
Died: Graz / Styria, 04.01.1830

Name Variants
(French) Frédéric-Joseph-Antoine Marquis de Bellegarde

Family Status
Brother of B29
Married: 1787 Adelheid Viktoria Gräfin von Bellegarde (?-1830) (Bellegarde’s great-niece)

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 23.03.1797 (w.r.f. 16.05.1797)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 29.10.1800 (w.r.f. 09.11.1800)
Retired: 1809

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
City and Fortress Commandant of Venice: 1805
Military Commander in Carniola (Laibach): 1806-1807

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°44: 1801 – 04.01.1830
I.R. Chamberlain: 1802 (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Friedrich Joseph Anton Gabriel Noyel Graf von Bellegarde was born in 1752. In 1797 he was promoted to Generalmajor. In early 1800 Bellegarde commanded an infantry brigade in FML Ferdinand Johann Graf von Morzin's division in northwestern Italy. At the end of May, he had been transferred to FML Anton Freiherr von Elsnitz's division on the River Var. He took part in the siege of Genoa and then commanded an infantry brigade in FML Hadik's main column at Marengo on 14 June. In 1800 he was promoted to Feldmarschalleutnant and one year later received the proprietorship of the Infantry Regiment N°44. FML Friedrich Graf von Bellegarde retired in 1809 and died in 1830.

Printed Sources
Forstner, Edith: Das Leben des Feldmarschalls Heinrich Graf Bellegarde (1756-1845), Ph.D. thesis Vienna 1989, p.15 | Kneschke 1, p.288 | MD 1, p.73 (partially incorrect) | MilSchem | Nekrolog 1830/2, N°387 (p.914) (wrong: b. 1753) | Pickl, p.218 | Wurzbach 1, p.244 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.75 | Wrede 1, p.429

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B29	Bellegarde, Heinrich Joseph Johannes Graf von

Personal Information
Born: Dresden / Saxony, 28.08.1756¹
Died: Vienna, 22.07.1845

Name Variants
(French) Henry-Joseph de Bellegarde, Marquis de Marches et d’Antremont

Family Status
Brother of B28
Married: 1791 Auguste Gräfin von Berlichingen (1765-1831)

Promotions
Major: 19.11.1781
Oberstleutnant: 01.05.1784²
Oberst: 10.10.1785
Generalmajor: 21.11.1792³
Feldmarschalleutnant: 04.03.1796⁴ (w.r.f. 18.10.1795)
General der Kavallerie: 05.09.1800
Feldmarschall: 12.09.1809

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Commanding General in Italy (Venetia): 05.09.1800 – 12.1805
Commanding General in Inner Austria: 02.1806 – 03.12.1806
Commanding General in Galicia⁵: 09.09.1806 – 02.1810
President of the Aulic War Council: 09.04.1810⁶ – 11.1813
Plenipotentiary Commissioner (= Governor-General) in Lombardy: 14.(25.)05.1814 – 03.04.1815
Deputy of the Viceroy of Lombardy-Venetia: 03.04.1815 – 06.03.1816
Grand Master of the Household to Archduke Crown Prince Ferdinand of Austria: 06.03.1816 – 10.05.1832
President of the Aulic War Council: 24.07.1820 – 16.10.1825
State and Conference Minister: 24.07.1820

Field Service (1792-1815)
Commander of the (autonomous) Corps in Vorarlberg / in the Tyrol: 04.1798 – 01.1799
Commander of the Army of the Tyrol: 28.01.1799 – 05.1799
Commander of the Austrian forces at the combat of Remüs: 30.04.1799 (+)
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle of Cassina Grossa (San Giuliano): 20.06.1799 (–)
Commander of the Austrian forces during the siege of Alessandria: 26.06.-22.07.1799 (+)
Commander of the Army of Italy: 05.09.1800 – 03.1801
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle at the Mincio (Pozzolo, Valeggio, Monzambano): 25./26.12.1800 (–)
Commander of the 1st Army Corps: 02.-07.1809
Commander of the Army of Italy: 03.11.(16.12.)1813 – 03.(10.?)1815
Commander of the Austrian forces at the battle at the Mincio (Roverbella, Valeggio, Monzambano): 08.02.1814 (–)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of the Golden Fleece: 07.12.1817
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 25.05.1794 / CC: 06.11.1805
Order of St. Stephen – GC: 10.05.1832
Order of Leopold – GC: 07.01.1809
Order of the Iron Crown 1st cl.: 12.02.1816
Golden Civil Honor Cross 1813/14: 26.05.1815
Military Honor Cross 1813/14 (Army Cross): ~ 1814
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Chevauxleger Regiment N°1 / (since 1798:) Dragoon Regiment N°1 / (since 1802:) Chevauxleger Regiment N°1: 20.01.1797 – 22.07.1845
I.R. Privy Councillor: 03.12.1806
I.R. Chamberlain: 1790

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Bavaria:
Order of St. Hubert: 1824
Military Order of Maximilian Joseph – GC
Naples-Sicily:
Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit – GC: 1818
Parma:
Constantinian Order of St. George – GC: 1826
Poland (Russia):
Order of the White Eagle
Russia:
Order of St. Andrew: 1821
Order of St. Alexander Nevskij
Order of St. Anne 1st cl.
Sardinia-Piedmont:
Order of the Annunziata

Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Graf Bellegarde's father (Johann Franz) was a Saxon general and later Minister for War. His son joined the Saxon army in 1766 initially, but transferred to Austrian service in 1772. In 1785 he became Colonel-Commander of the Dragoon Regiment N°26 Erzherzog Joseph Anton which unit he led during the wars against the Turks in 1787-92.
In April 1792 Bellegarde served in the Army of the Upper Rhine under FZM Fürst von Hohenlohe-Kirchberg. At the end of that year Emperor Francis II. promoted him to Generalmajor. In spring 1793, Bellegarde was transferred to the staff of FM Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld's main army in the Netherlands where he fought in the sieges of Valenciennes and Maubeuge. In 1794 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order (MMTO). In 1796, Bellegarde was promoted to FML and appointed ad latus to Archduke Charles. He thus fought in all the major engagements: Wetzlar (15 June), Malsch (9 July), Neresheim (11 August) and Würzburg on 3 September.
In 1797, he accompanied Archduke Charles to northern Italy; on 7 April he and GM Graf von Merveldt negotiated the armistice of Judenburg and later the treaties of Leoben and Campo Formio.
In 1798, he was a member of the Army Reform Committee, which, among other things, examined the possibility of introducing the French army corps system into the Austrian army. The proposal was rejected by the reactionary majority in the Hofkriegsrat.
In 1799 he commanded the army in the Tyrol and saw action in Switzerland and Italy. On 4 April he defeated GdB Jean-Joseph-Paul-Auguste Dessole at Tauffers and Münsters. At the end of that month, he drove GdD Claude-Jacques Lecourbe out of the Engadin, after defeating him at Remüs on 30 April. On 15 May 1799, he was ordered to take 15,000 men to go over the Alps into Piedmont, to operate with the Russians under FM Alexander Vassil'evič Suvorov. He marched via Wallenstedt, Chur and the Splügen Pass, to reach Chiavenna on 21 May. From here, he went to Como, where his men were embarked on ships, taken over Lake Como to Milan and on to Pavia, where he joined the Russians. FML Bellegarde was ordered to take the citadels of Tortona then Alessandria. On 20 June, he was defeated by GdD Jean-Victor Moreau at Cassina Grossa; forced to abandon the siege of Tortona and to retire behind the River Bormida. On 22 June, he opened the siege of Alessandria, which capitulated on 22 July. On 15 August, he commanded a division on the right wing in the battle of Novi under FZM Kray. The French, under GdD Barthélemy-Catherine Joubert, were defeated; Joubert was killed. Next month, Bellegarde was called to Vienna, to act as an advisor to the devious intriguing Foreign Minister, Johann Baron Thugut.
In 1800 he took over command of the Austrian army from GdK Baron Melas after their defeat at Marengo on 14 June; the campaign effectively ended here. He failed to exploit his chances to stop the French crossing the Mincio River (25-26 December 1800) and was forced to withdraw eastwards over the River Etsch. This led to the armistice of Treviso, signed by the belligerents on 16 January 1801.
On 5 September 1800, he was promoted to General der Kavallerie.
In 1805 Bellegarde was sent to Italy where he commanded the Austrian centre at Caldiero against Massena; he was distinguished and awarded the Commander's Cross of the MMTO.
In the 1809 campaign GdK Graf Bellegarde commanded the I and II Corps, initially in Bohemia, then in the Danube valley. At Aspern (21-22 April) he commanded the 2nd Column (I Corps) which was involved in the hard, hand-to-hand fighting in Aspern on the first day of the battle. Bellegarde also commanded the I Corps at Wagram (the village of Deutsch Wagram itself) on 5-6 July and at Znaim (10-11 July). On 12 September 1809 he was promoted to Feldmarschall. The next year Bellegarde was appointed president of the Hofkriegsrat (Aulic War Council) and was responsible for organizing the rapid mobilisation of the nation in 1813. After his resignation as Hofkriegsrats-Präsident he commanded the army of Inner-Austria in northern Italy in 1814 and concluded the armistice with Prince Eugene in mid-April of that year. His army was defeated at the attempted crossing of the Mincio River on 8 February. He died in Vienna on 22 July 1845.

Printed Sources
ADB 2, p.305 (wrong: d. 1846) | Amon, DR9, pp.160f., 176, 389, 387 | Bodart, p.332, 338, 359, 471 | BU 3, p.561ff. | Criste 1, p.191 | Forstner, Edith: Das Leben des Feldmarschalls Heinrich Graf Bellegarde (1756-1845), Ph.D. thesis, Vienna 1989 | Hirtenfeld 2, p.756 | HKR-Präs, N°27 (p.44ff.) | Hollins, p.6ff. | Kneschke 1, p.288 | Lombroso, p.427ff. | MD 1, p.73 | MilSchem | NDB 2, p.29 | ÖBL 1, p.66 | ÖMKL 1, p.352f. | Pickl, p.216 (wrong: d. 1848) | Rath, p.4 | Regele, p.29 (wrong: d. 1746) | Smola, Karl v.: Das Leben des Feldmarschall Heinrich Grafen von Bellegarde, Wien 1847 | Vlies-Orden, p.187, N°825 | Wengen, DR13, p.508f. | Wrede 3, p.339 | Wrede (6), pp.20, 31, 32 | Wurzbach 1, p.243f. | WZ, 09.03.1808, 11.01.1809, 06.06.1814, 28.05.1815, 20.02.1816, 16.03.1816 | Zivkovic, Generalität, pp.13, 37 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.4, 54, 59, 60, 63, 128, 130

Internet Sources
Ebert (http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/bellegarde.html)
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Szentváry-Lukács

Notes
¹) Forster disproves that Chambéry (Savoy) was the place of birth as well as any different dates of birth other than the 28.08.1756.
²) Wengen, DR13, p.509: 24.04.1784 (?)
³) Amon, DR9, p.176: 24.11.1792 (?) / Forstner: 25.11.1792 (?)
⁴) Forstner: 14.03.1796 (?)
⁵) Forstner: Governor-General (?)
⁶) 11.04.1810 (?)

B30	Belloute de Chrachay, Johann Belloute de Chrachay et Watters, Johann Ritter

Personal Information
Born: Haid (Bor) / Bohemia, 30.03.1764
Died: Vienna, 08.05.1810

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 1801
Oberst: 01.09.1805
Generalmajor: 02.09.1809

Elevation of Social Status
Ritter (by elevation of B31): 30.09.1779 (with predicate: "von Watters")

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
Amon, DR9, pp.231ff., 236, 387 (wrong: "Bellonte") | Leitner 2, p.122 | MilSchem | Svoboda 1, col.123 | WZ, 25.11.1809, 15.08.1810

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B31	Belloute de Chrachay, Karl Belloute de Chrachay et Watters, Karl Ritter

Personal Information
Born: Lüttich (Liège) / Austrian Netherlands, 1729
Died: Bohemia, 24.07.1801¹

Promotions
Major: 1771
Oberstleutnant: 1773
Oberst: 05.1784
Generalmajor: 16.01.1790 (w.r.f. 17.11.1789)

Elevation of Social Status
Ritter: 30.09.1779 (with predicate: "von Watters")

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
Frank 1, p.69 | Kneschke 1, p.293 | MilSchem | ÖMKL 1, p.357f. (wrong: "Freiherr") | Wurzbach 1, p.247f.

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) Schmidt-Brentano: 24.06.1801 (?)

B32	Bencsur, Joseph von

Personal Information
Born: Käsmark (Késmárk) / Com. Zips (Szepes) / Hungary, 1759
Died: Vienna, 26.04.1846

Name Variants
also: Benczur

Promotions
Major: 1800
Oberstleutnant: 1804
Oberst: E.1807
Generalmajor: 29.11.1812
Feldmarschalleutnant: 08.02.1823
Retired: 1833

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°34: 28.10.1827 – 10.10.1841
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°34: 10.10.1841 – 26.04.1846

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Bavaria:
Civil Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown – CC: 1827
Sardinia-Piedmont:
Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus – GC: 1820

Printed Sources
Blasek/Rieger 1/I, p.396 (wrong: FML in 1822) | Gatti, IngAk, p.304 | Kreipner, IR34, pp.530f., 550 | MilSchem | Wrede 1, p.360 | WZ, 23.01.1808, 29.12.1812

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B33	Bender, (Johann) Blasius Columban von Bender, (Johann) Blasius Columban Freiherr von

Personal Information
Born: Gengenbach (free imperial city), 11.(14.?)11.1713
Died: Prague (Praha) / Bohemia, 20.11.1798

Family Status
Uncle of B34
Married (1): Anna Freiin von Kollin
Married (2): Johanna Katharina Michaela von Gutenthal
Married (3): 1774 Luise Gräfin von Isenburg-Budingen (1731-1813)

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: vor 25.11.1756¹
Oberst: 1758
Generalmajor: 22.05.1769 (w.r.f. 04.06.1759)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 25.04.1775 (w.r.f. 08.07.1767)
Feldzeugmeister: 15.02.1786 (w.r.f. 25.01.1785)
Feldmarschall: 03.06.(03.09.?)1790

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Fortress Commandant of Philippsburg: 1769
Fortress Commandant of Olmütz: 1775
Provisional Governor and Fortress Commandant of Luxemburg: 09.(19.?)09.1785 – 07.06.1795
Commanding General in the Austrian Netherlands: 01.1790 – 05.01.1795
Commanding General in Bohemia: 07.1795 – 20.11.1798

Field Service (1791-1815)
Commander of the (autonomous) Corps in the Austrian Netherlands: 12.1789 – 05.1791
Commander of the Austrian defence forces of the fortress of Luxemburg: 09.08.1794 – 07.06.1795 (–)

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 01.01.1782

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – GC: 19.12.1790
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°41: 21.10.1778 – 20.11.1798

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Blasius Columban von Bender was born in 1713. He entered Austrian military service in 1733 and distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession and in the Seven Years War which brought him promotions to Generalmajor (1769) and Feldmarschalleutnant (1775). In 1778 he was appointed Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°41.
Shortly before his promotion to Feldzeugmeister (1786) Bender was sent as Provisional Governor to Luxemburg where he conducted a short and successful campaign against the rebels. For this he was promoted Feldmarschall (1790) and awarded the Grand Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order (MMTO). Additionally Bender was appointed Commanding General of the Austrian Netherlands. In 1794 he conducted a stout defence of Luxemberg fortress and was eventually starved into surrender. Four years later he died in Prague as Commanding General in Bohemia.

Printed Sources
ADB 2, p.320 | Amon, IR20, p.154 | Beck, F.W.: Zur Lebensgeschichte Feldmarschalls Joh. Blasius Columbanus von Bender. In: Die Ortenau. Veröffentlichungen des Historischen Vereins für Mittelbaden, year 1931, Offenburg 1931, p.184f. | Bodart, p.302 | BU 3, p.625 | Doerr, p.261 | Engelhardt, Luxemburg, p.181 | Frank 1, p.70 | Hirtenfeld 1, p.290f. | Kempf, Johann Karl: Feldmarschall Johannes Blasius Columbanus von Bender. In: Die Ortenau. Veröffentlichungen des Historischen Vereins für Mittelbaden, year 1927, Offenburg 1927, p.1ff. | Kneschke 1, p.299 | MD 1, p.76 | Megerle, p.276ff. | MilSchem | NDB 2, p.38 (wrong: d. 20.09.1798) | ÖMKL 1, p.358f. | Roschach, Julius: Die Genealogie der Patrizierfamilie Bender in Gengenbach. In: Die Ortenau. Veröffentlichungen des Historischen Vereins für Mittelbaden, year 1992, Offenburg 1992, p.171ff. (printer's error: year of birth "1731" instead of "1713") | Wrede 1, p.408 | Wurzbach 1, p.263f. | Zivkovic, Generalität, pp.13, 35 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, pp.51, 127

Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) According to the oldest personnel record (Standesliste) of the Infantry Regiment N°22 (Amon, IR20, p.154)

B34	Bender, (Johann Evangelist) Joachim von Bender, (Johann Evangelist) Joachim Freiherr von

Personal Information
Born: Freiburg im Breisgau / Anterior Austria, 01.02.1741¹
Died: Bad Griesbach / Baden or Bavaria, 26.02.1818²

Family Status
Nephew of B33
Unmarried

Promotions
Major: 1789
Oberstleutnant: 1790
Oberst: 03.05.1794
Generalmajor: 01.03.1797 (w.r.f. 25.02.1797)
Feldmarschalleutnant (title): 12.1802 (w.r.f. 09.12.1802)
Retired: 12.1802

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr (by elevation of B33): 01.01.1782

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Printed Sources
Amon, IR20, pp.248, 278 | Doerr, p.261 | Frank 1, p.70 | Kempf, Johann Karl: Feldmarschall Johannes Blasius Columbanus von Bender. In: Die Ortenau. Veröffentlichungen des Historischen Vereins für Mittelbaden, year 1927, Offenburg 1927, p.2 | Kneschke 1, p.299 | MD 1, p.76 | MilSchem | ÖMKL 1, p.359 | Roschach, Julius: Die Genealogie der Patrizierfamilie Bender in Gengenbach. In: Die Ortenau. Veröffentlichungen des Historischen Vereins für Mittelbaden, year 1992, Offenburg 1992, p.174f. | Wurzbach 1, p.263

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) Date according to the epitaph (cited in: Roschach). On the other hand Wurzbach, Kempf and Schmidt-Brentano: 12.02.1741 (?)
²) Date according to the epitaph (cited in: Roschach). On the other hand MilSchem (d. Gengenbach), Schmidt-Brentano, Wurzbach (d. Gengenbach) and Kempf (d. Bad Griesbach): 26.07.1818 (?)

B35	Benjowsky von Benjow und Urbanow, Johann Andreas

Personal Information
Born: Szerdahely / Com. Preßburg (Pozsony, Bratislava) / Hungary, 1740
Died: Preßburg (Pozsony, Bratislava) / Hungary, 01.09.1822

Name Variants
also: Benjovszky von Benjóv und Urbanóv

Promotions
Major: 1769
Oberstleutnant: 08.08.1773
Oberst: 16.11.1777
Generalmajor: 15.02.1786 (w.r.f. 14.02.1786)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 27.02.1793 (w.r.f. 18.02.1793)
Retired: 13.03.1795

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°31: 25.04.1794 – 25.07.1817
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°31: 25.07.1817 – 01.09.1822

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Printed Sources
Blažekovič, IR31, I, pp.108, 112, 168, 353, 356 | MilSchem | Wrede 1, p.338

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B36	Bentheim-Steinfurth, (Friedrich) Wilhelm Graf von Bentheim-Steinfurth, (Friedrich) Wilhelm Fürst von

Personal Information
Born: Castle Burgsteinfurt / Steinfurt, 17.04.1782
Died: Villafranca (n.l.) / Italy, 12.10.1839

Promotions
Major: 09.1804¹
Oberstleutnant: 02.1809
Oberst: 27.05.1809
Generalmajor: 08.10.1813²
Feldmarschalleutnant: 20.08.1829

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Upper and Lower Austria and Salzburg: 08.1839 – 12.10.1839

Elevation of Social Status
Fürst: 1818

Order of Chivalry
Knight of the (Prussian) Order of St. John: end 18th cent.
Commander of the Commandery Burgsteinfurt: before 1811

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 08.03.1810
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°9: 1825 – 12.10.1839
Military Honor Cross 1813/14 (Army Cross 1813/14): ~ 1814
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1836
I.R. Chamberlain: 1810

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
Hannover:
Guelphic Order – CC: ~ 1815 / GC: 1829
Papal State:
Order of St. Gregor – GC II.Kl.: 1831
Parma:
Constantinian Order of St. George – GC: 1835

Printed Sources
Amon, IR47, pp.465, 490 | Dauber, p.205ff. | Hirtenfeld 2, p.1023ff. | MilSchem | ÖBL 1, p.70 | ÖMKL 1, p.362ff. | ÖMZ 1840, vol.3, p.130ff.: Nekrolog des Feldmarschall-Lieutenants Fürsten zu Bentheim-Steinfurt | Pickl, p.220 (wrong: d. 1840) | Wrede 1, p.174 | Wurzbach 1, p.282f. | WZ 02.12.1809

Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/bentheim/bentheim2.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) Dauber, p.205: 09.1801 (?)
²) Dauber, p.206 & ÖMZ: 04.10.1813 (?) / Amon, IR47, p.490: 07.10.1813 (?)

B37	Berchtold, Joseph Emmerich Graf von

Personal Information
Born: 19.01.1734
Died: Tyrnau (Nagy-Szombat) / Com. Preßburg (Pozsony) / Hungary, 21.03.1799

Family Status
Married (1): Anna Maria Poluska
Married (2): 1798 Barbara Freiin Weiss von Horstenstein

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.12.1779 (w.r.f. 29.11.1779)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
MilSchem

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B38	Berniakovics von Ollovetz, Alois Freiherr

Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: (Vienna ?), 06.06.1818

Name Variants
also: Benjakovich

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor (title): 05.04.1812
Retired: 05.04.1812

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 03.06.1812

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B39	Bersina von Siegenthal, Heinrich Bersina von Siegenthal, Heinrich Freiherr

Personal Information
Born: Holleschau (Holešov) / Mähren, 18.02.1762
Died: Vienna, 21.12.1831¹

Family Status
Married: 1801 Augusta Gräfin von Hennin (1769-?)

Promotions
Major: 19.03.1798
Oberstleutnant: 06.02.1799
Oberst: 17.11.1799
Generalmajor: 01.09.1805² (w.r.f. 08.02.1804)
Feldmarschalleutnant: 27.05.1809
General der Kavallerie: 02.11.1827

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Comanding General ad interim in Slavonia and Syrmia: 07.1813 – 1816
Comanding General in Slavonia and Syrmia: 1816 – 10.1831
Vice-President of the Aulic War Council: 10.1831 – 21.12.1831

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 20.08.1810

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Military Maria Theresian Order – KC: 28.04.1809³
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Cuirassier Regiment N°1: 12.1812 – 21.12.1831
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1816

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Biographical Essay (by Digby Smith)
Heinrich Bersina von Siegenthal (later: Freiherr), born on 18 February 1762, entered Austrian military service in 1783 as a cadet in the Chevauxleger Regiment "Kinsky" N°7. He fought with distinction in the wars against the Turks and developed into an accomplished light cavalry and outpost commander. By 1792 he was appointed to Erzherzog Carl's staff; in 1799 he transferred to Cuirassier Regiment N°4 and fought in Italy.
In the November of the year Siegenthal was promoted Oberst. In January 1801 he raised the Uhlan Regiment N°3 in Krakau and took command of it. In 1802 Erzherzog Carl became Colonel-Proprietor of the regiment.
In September 1805, Siegenthal was promoted Generalmajor. He commanded a cavalry brigade in Löwenberg's division in northern Italy and earned great respect with his defence of Pontebba and the Flitcher Klause, in the mountains north of Udine, in the valley of the River Fella, on 19 November. By this latter delaying action, he allowed the armies of Erzherzog Carl and his brother Johann to unite.
In the 1809 campaign he fought in the Danube valley where his successful cavalry charge at Eggmühl on 22 April earned him the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresian Order. At Aspern GM Siegenthal commanded a cavalry brigade and was promoted Feldmarschalleutnant after that battle. At Wagram he commanded a division in Hohenzollern-Hechingen's II Corps; his corps was also present at Znaim on 11 July but not engaged.
In 1810 Siegenthal was created Baron due to the reglement of the MMTO. FML (Bersina von) Siegenthal commanded the 3rd Division of the Austrian Corps in Russia in 1812 and was appointed 2nd Proprietor of Cuirassier Regiment N°1 at the end of that year.
In 1813 he handed Warsaw over to the Russians and was then appointed Commanding General in Slovenia and Syrmia. In 1827 he was promoted General der Kavallerie and later Vice President of the Aulic War Council. He died in Vienna in 1831.

Printed Sources
Doerr, p.282 | Frank 1, p.81 | Frank-Döfering, 454 | Hirtenfeld 2, p.925ff. | Kneschke 1, p.374 | MD 1, p.84 | Leitner 2, p.123f. | MilSchem | ÖBL 1, p.77 | Riedl, UR3, pp.21, 244, 334 | Svoboda 1, col.177ff. (wrong: Mjr in 1796 / Obstlt in 1796 / awarded the Order of Leopold ?) | Wrede 3, p.128 | Wurzbach 1, p.335 | WZ, 25.11.1809, 02.02.1813, 09.06.1816 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.40 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.68

Internet Sources
Jewison/Steiner
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Notes
¹) ÖBL / Riedl, UR3, p.334: 31.12.1831 (?)
²) Riedl, UR3, p.334: 31.08.1805 (?)
³) Riedl, UR3, p.334: 22.04.1809 (?)

B40	Bertoletti, Anton Bertoletti, Anton Freiherr von

Personal Information
Born: Mailand (Milano) / Lombardy, 28.08.1775
Died: Vienna, 06.05.1846

Name Variants
(Italian) Antonio Barone Bertoletti

Family Status
Married: 1835 [N.] Baronessa Lazari de Chiaravalle

Promotions
Italy:
General of Brigade: 1811
Into Austrian service: 02.07.1814
Generalmajor: 02.07.1814
Feldmarschalleutnant: 20.09.1830
Feldzeugmeister: 23.12.1845

Posts and Offices (Army, Politics, Court)
Adlatus of the Commanding General in Upper and Lower Austria and Salzburg: 1835-1839
Captain of the Lombardo-Venetian Noble Guard: 26.08.1839 – 06.05.1846

Elevation of Social Status (Austria)
Freiherr: 05.06.1838

Elevation of Social Status (Foreign Countries)
France:
Baron: 15.08.1809

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
Order of the Iron Crown 2nd cl.: 1832
2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°15: 1827-1835
Colonel-Proprietor of the Infantry Regiment N°15: 1835 – 06.05.1846
I.R. Privy Councillor: 1835

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
France:
Order of the Légion d'Honneur – OC: 1805
Italy (France):
Order of the Iron Crown – KC: 01.05.1806 / CC: ~ 1812
Russia:
Order of St. Anne 1st cl.: 1832

Printed Sources
Frank, N°601 | MD 1, p.86 | MilSchem | ÖMKL 1, p.380ff. | ÖMZ 1847, vol.2, p.3ff.: Leben des k.k. Feldzeugmeisters Anton Freiherrn von Bertoletti | Wrede 1, p.218 | Wrede (6), p.80 | Wurzbach 1, p.337f. | WZ, 07.08.1814 | Zivkovic, Generalität, p.42 | Zivkovic, Heerführer, p.46

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
Wikipedia [= http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_dei_generali_italiani_(1800-1815) ].- Download: 19.08.2008

B41	Bertolini, Julian (Julius ?) Graf

Personal Information
Born: around 1727
Died: Vienna, 04.02.1800

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 24.04.1784 (w.r.f. 19.04.1784)
Quit: 12.1796

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
MilSchem

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B42	Bésán de Dunaszekcsö, Emerich

Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Pest / Hungary, 06.12.1840

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst: 02./03.1808
Generalmajor (a.h.): 16.09.1812

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 09.03.1808, 20.10.1812

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B43	Béthisy de Mézières, Eugen Eustachius Graf

Personal Information
Born: Montiers / France, 05.01.1739
Died: Paris / France, 14.06.1823

Name Variants
(French) Eugène-Eustache Marquis de Béthisy de Mézières

Family Status
Married: 1767 [N.] du Deffand

Promotions
France:
Marechal-de-Camp: 05.12.1781
Quit: 1791
Army of Condé: 1791
Into Austrian service: 1797
Generalmajor: 27.10.1797 (w.r.f. 24.10.1797)
Quit and into French service: 1814
Lieutenant General: 1814 (w.r.f. 01.01.1801)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
France:
Military Order of St. Louis – KC: 1760 / CC: 08.1787 / GC: 1793
Hohenlohe:
Order of the Phoenix – GC: 1817

Printed Sources
BU 4, p.222f. | Courcelles 2, p.240ff. (w/o date of death) / 3, p.482 / 6, p.487f. | Mazas/Anne 1, p.523f. / 2, p.82f. | MilSchem

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B44	Bethlen (de Bethlen), Paul Graf

Personal Information
Born: Bethlen (Beclean) / Transylvania, 1735
Died: Bethlen (Beclean) / Transylvania, 14.10.1795

Family Status
Married: 1771 Christina Freiin Kemény de Magyargyerömonostor (1743-1811)

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 10.04.1783 (w.r.f. 24.03.1783)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
– (?)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)

Printed Sources
MilSchem

Internet Sources
Marek (http://genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/bethlen5.html)
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B45	Betzmann, (Johann) Gottlieb von

Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: Szarhegy / Com. Csik / Transylvania, 24.02.1819

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant: 04./05.1808 or 08./09.1808
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 27.02.1814

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
–

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–

Printed Sources
MilSchem | WZ, 04.05.1808 or WZ, 05.10.1808

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B46	Beust, Ernst von

Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: 29.10.1815

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 01.03.1797 (w.r.f. 13.02.1797)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
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Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
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Printed Sources
MilSchem

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B47	Bey, Karl Graf von

Personal Information
Born: 17??
Died: near Neumarkt (Maros-Vásárhely) / Com. Maros-Torda / Transylvania, 23.10.1819

Promotions
Major: 30.05.1788
Oberstleutnant: 18.07.1789
Oberst: 26.08.1793
Generalmajor: 14.03.1797 (w.r.f. 26.04.1797)
Feldmarschalleutnant (a.h.): 27.04.1801 (w.r.f. 21.04.1801)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
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Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
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Printed Sources
MilSchem | Wengen, DR13, pp.517, 537, 567, 569f.

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

B48	Beyer von Bu(e)chholz und Rothweil, Joseph

Personal Information
Born: around 1749
Died: Vienna, 16.07.1806

Promotions
Major:
Oberstleutnant:
Oberst:
Generalmajor: 07.05.1800 (w.r.f. 04.06.1800)

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
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Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
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Printed Sources
MilSchem

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

Placed on the Napoleon Series: March 2008, updated October 2008

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