
By Leopold
Kudrna, with Biographical Essays by Digby Smith.
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
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
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
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.)
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 (?)
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
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)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
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)
–
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
–
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)
– (?)
Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
– (?)
Printed Sources
MilSchem
Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale
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