Ferdinand-Gobert Count of Aspremont-Lynden (

Oud-Rekem Oud-Rekem is a village in the Lanaken municipality of the Limburg (Belgium), Limburg province of Belgium. The village is considered one of the most authentic villages of Belgium. Since 1994, it is protected as a monument. History Oud-Rekem was fir ...

, around 1645 – 1 February 1708) was an Austrian military from the

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who fought in the service of the Habsburg Emperor Leopold I.

Biography

Lynden was born in the noble family

Aspremont-Lynden The House of Aspremont-Lynden is the name of an important Belgian noble family, probably originated from the House of Lynden, which was part of the Dutch nobility. History The proven line starts with Thierry van Lynden (married 1520, died 1566), ...

as the son of Count Ferdinand of Aspremont-Lynden (1611-1665) and his wife,

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Elisabeth zu

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(1621-1662). He grew up at the

Aspremont-Lynden Castle Aspremont-Lynden Castle ( nl, Kasteel d'Aspremont-Lynden) is a castle in Oud-Rekem in the municipality of Lanaken, province of Limburg, Belgium. The present castle, on the site of a mediaeval predecessor, was constructed by the noble family of d ...

, in the county of Rekem (Reckheim), a small County in present-day Belgium, belonging to the Holy Roman Empire. Lynden became an officer in the service of the Holy Roman Empire and its Habsburg emperor in Vienna. He fought in the

Great Turkish War The Great Turkish War (german: Großer Türkenkrieg), also called the Wars of the Holy League ( tr, Kutsal İttifak Savaşları), was a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League consisting of the Holy Roman Empire, Pola ...

and helped defend the capital Vienna during the

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. After the victory, Lynden fought in Hungary, which the Austrians captured from the Ottomans. In 1690, he was responsible of the defense of Belgrade, which had been conquered from the Ottomans in 1688. Taking advantage of the weakness on the eastern border of the Holy Roman Empire, because of the French invasion on the Rhine during the

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, the Ottomans returned to besiege Belgrade in 1690. The Ottomans were led by Grand Vizier

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and succeeded in detonating the citadel's powder magazine. The Ottomans took Belgrade, but several hundred soldiers escaped by swimming across the Danube, including Lynden and Duke

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, another nobleman of the Southern Netherlands. Back in Vienna, Lynden was put under house arrest because of the debacle at Belgrade.
Nevertheless, after the final victory in the Great Turkish War, Emperor Leopold I granted Lynden the rank of General, and later Feldmarschall-leutnant of the Holy Roman Empire for his services in the Great Turkish War. He died in 1708 at the castle in Oud-Rekem, where he was born.

Marriage and children

In 1680, Ferdinand Gobert was firstly married Princess Charlotte von

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(1643-1686), daughter of

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After her death, in 1691 in

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he remarried. The bride was Princess Juliana Barbara

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(1669-1717), daughter of

Francis I Rákóczi Francis I Rákóczi (February 24, 1645, Gyulafehérvár, Transylvania – July 8, 1676, Zboró, Royal Hungary) was a Hungarian aristocrat, elected prince of Transylvania and father of Hungarian national hero Francis Rákóczi II. Francis R� ...

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They had 7 children including : * Count Joseph Gobert von Aspremont-Lynden (1694-1720) * Count Karl Gobert Franz von Aspremont-Lynden (1703-1749), had issue.geneanet
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References

Sources

Biographie Nationale de Belgique, Tome 1er (Wikisource)
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