Imperial troop leader, born in 1511 in Aur an der Etsch, 1584 as mayor of Vienna. The son of a landsknecht and growing up without any schooling, F. chose a career as a soldier, was enlisted in the imperial occupation troops in Italy in 1530 and subsequently took part in the war against Francis 1 of France. Sent to the army in Hungary in 1540, he was wounded in a bloody but unsuccessful attack on Ofen and was taken prisoner by the Turks in a later battle. After he had freed himself again by paying a ransom, he came to this again in the Milanese war
Size 18 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2069

Son of Count Peter von Lacy and his second wife, Margareta Filippina von Funcken-Lösern (1685–1759), widowed Countess Frölich. His father was a Russian Field Marshal who belonged to the Irish branch of the de Lacy family and had followed James II into exile. Franz Moritz was born in St Petersburg, and was educated in Germany for a military career, and entered the Austrian service. He served in Italy, Bohemia, Silesia and the Netherlands during the War of the Austrian Succession, was twice wounded, and by the end of the war was a lieutenant-colonel. At the age of twenty-five he became full colonel and chief of an infantry regiment.
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:238

Born on the Georgenberg in Weissenfels  February 5, 1725, died in Prague on June 18, 1814. Brother of the Weissenfels chronicler Georg Ernst Otto and Dr. med. Adolf Traugott Otto, who died in an accident on December 31, 1800. Was in Weissenfels several times with his Free Corps during the Seven Years’ War.”
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Date:1779
Size 16.3 x 24 cms
Price £28.00

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