Ferdinand Charles, comte d'Aspremont-Lynden
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Ferdinand Charles Gobert, Graf von Aspremont-Lynden-Reckheim (1689–1772), was a soldier, who served in the
Early life and ancestry
Count Ferdinand Charles Gobert of Aspremont-Lynden-Reckheim was born in Froidcourt Castle, as the youngest son of Count Ferdinand Gobert of Aspremont-Lynden-Reckheim and his second wife, Princess Julianna Barbara Rákóczi, daughter of Francis II Rákóczi, Prince of Transylvania.
Marriages
on 2 January 1730 in
After his first wife died, on 2 December 1750 he married for the second time. This time the bride was Countess Maria Johanna Barbara von Nostitz-Rokitnitz (1723–1779), widow of Count Karl Joseph Leopold von Lichnowsky-Woschütz (1702-1739), daughter of Count Johann Karl Martin Christoph von Nostitz-Rokitnitz (1673-1740) and his wife, Countess Maria Maximiliane von Sinzendorf (1675-1718).
He had no issue from both marriages.
Career
He served the
He fought the French on the Rhine and Moselle between 1733 and 1734, and the Turks between 1737 and 1738. In 1741, he became Feldmarschalleutnant.
During the
In 1754, he became Field Marshal, and was also member of the
In 1763, he was made a Knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece.
See also
- Castle of Aspremont-Lynden
Sources
- Charles-Alexandre de Lorraine. L'homme, le maréchal, le grand maître, notice by Georges Englebert, ed. Luc Derloo, Brussels, Générale de Banque, 1987, pp. 174–175