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Austrian Generals

1792-1815

B

Part 1

Baader to Bicking

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 Commander 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

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" ?)

Personal Information
Born: Castle Latour 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 (?)

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. | 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

Personal Information
Born: Castle Latour 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)
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 permission to quit: 21.10.1810 (Beran, IR55, p.88)

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 (?)

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 Commander 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 Bal(l)abio

Promotions
Italy:
General of Brigade: ?
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

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 quited: 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

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 (?)

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: 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

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

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 (?)

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 (?)

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 (?)

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)   

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)
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Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
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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.

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: 19.03.1751
Died: Wiener Neustadt / Lower Austria, 09.11.1801

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

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Austria)
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Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
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Printed Sources
Leitner 2, p.95 | MilSchem

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

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)
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Printed Sources
MilSchem

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

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

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

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 general (quartermaster) staff of the Army of the Netherlands: 08.1794 – 04.1795
Chief of the general (quartermaster) staff of the Army of the Rhine: 04.-08.1795
Chief of the general (quartermaster) staff of the Army of the Lower Rhine: 08.-12.1795
Chief of the general (quartermaster) 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 (–)

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

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 Commander of Brod: 10.1812 – 28.12.1813

Elevation of Social Status
Freiherr: 02.05.1761 or 02.10.1779

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

Orders, Awards, Honorary Appointments (Foreign Countries)
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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. | 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 (?)

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)
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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

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)
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Printed Sources
MilSchem

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

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)
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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

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   

Personal Information
Born: 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

Internet Sources
Schmidt-Brentano, Generale

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 Commander 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)
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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