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

Habsburgs
.

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

Esterhazy von Galantha (1697–1746), daughter of Prince Michael Esterhazy von Galantha (1671-1721) and his wife, Donna Anna Margherita Tizzone Biandrata
(1673-1755).

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

War of Spanish Succession as lieutenant between 1708 and 1714. During this war, he met Prince Eugene of Savoy
, and entered in his service in the Imperial Army in 1722.

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 1746.

In 1754, he became Field Marshal, and was also member of the

War Council
.
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

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