Karl II Prince of Schwarzenberg (Karl Philipp Borromäus Prince of Schwarzenberg) (

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, 21 January 1802 -

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, 15 June 1858) was an Imperial Austrian noble and

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, who fought in the

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. He was

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between 1851 and 1858.

Biography

Karl was a son of the famous Field Marshal

Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg Karl Philipp, Fürst zu Schwarzenberg (or Charles Philip, Prince of Schwarzenberg; 18/19 April 1771 – 15 October 1820) was an Austrian Generalissimo. He fought in the Battle of Wagram (1809) but the Austrians lost decisively against Napoleo ...

(1771–1822) and Countess Maria Anna von Hohenfeld (1768–1848).
His 2 brothers were Friedrich Karl (1800–1870) and

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zu Schwarzenberg (1803–1873), who also became a Field Marshal . In mid-February 1821 he joined the Habsburg Army. In 1834 he became Colonel and in 1840 he was promoted to Major General and took over a brigade in

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. At the beginning of January 1848, he was entrusted with the divisional command that had become vacant in

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, and on 7 February 1848 he was appointed Field Marshal Lieutenant (FML). At the beginning of the

, there were uprisings against the Austrian rule in Brescia on 18 March 1848. On 22 March, Schwarzenberg and his troops left Brescia to join the Army of Field Marshal Count Radetzky, who was retreating from Milan. Schwarzenberg reached

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on 24 March, where he united with the imperial main army and retreated further to

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. Prince Schwarzenberg was then given command of a division of the I. Corps under FML Wratislaw von Mitrowitz. On 6 May, he was lightly wounded by a Sardinian bullet at the

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. He distinguished himself again in the following campaign of 1849 as a division general with the I. Reserve Corps under FML Gustav von Wocher in the Battle of Novara. After the Armistice of Vignale on 24 March 1849, he took command of an observation corps in

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on 20 June, and after the Peace of Milan on 6 August 1849, he became acting Governor and military governor of Lombardy in Milan on 16 October. The following year, he was given command of the IV Corps on 18 December 1850, until he was appointed civil and military

on 29 April 1851. In recognition of his services, he was awarded the

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on 16 December 1852, and on 24 April 1854, he was promoted to

. The prince stayed in Transylvania until 1858, which he had to leave on 6 April due to a serious illness. A recovery cure in Karlsbad was already in vain, he died when he returned to Vienna at the end of June 1858.

Marriage and offspring

The prince had married on 26 July 1823 with Josephine Countess Wratislaw-Mitrowitz (16 April 1802 - 17 April 1881), they had one son : * Karl (III.) Joseph Adolph Prince of Schwarzenberg (5 July 1824 - 29 March 1904), Order of the Golden Fleece, great-grandfather of Czech politician

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Sources

BLKÖ:Schwarzenberg, Karl Borromäus Philipp FürstÖBL:Schwarzenberg, Karl II. Fürst zuGeni.com
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