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Karl Vasilievich Ludwig von Budberg-Bönninghausen (9 July 1775–8 September 1829) was an

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cavalry general and nobleman who participated in the

Napoleonic Wars The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren ...

Early life

By birth member of the House of Budberg, German Baltic noble family, Ludwig was born in the Governorate of Livonia, as the son of Baron Ludwig Otto von Budberg-Bönninghausen (1729-1797) and his wife, Baroness Elisabeth Sophie von Löwenstern (1748-1811)

Biography

Budberg first joined the military at the age of eleven. He participated in the

Italian and Swiss expedition The Italian and Swiss expedition of 1799 was a military campaign undertaken by a combined Austro-Russian army under overall command of the Russian Marshal Alexander Suvorov against French forces in Piedmont and Lombardy (modern Italy) and the ...

and the

Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland The Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland (or Anglo-Russian expedition to Holland, or Helder Expedition) was a military campaign from 27 August to 19 November 1799 during the War of the Second Coalition, in which an expeditionary force of British and ...

in 1799 and was promoted to lieutenant colonel by 1801. During the

War of the Fourth Coalition The Fourth Coalition fought against Napoleon's French Empire and were defeated in a war spanning 1806–1807. The main coalition partners were Prussia and Russia with Saxony, Sweden, and Great Britain also contributing. Excluding Prussia, s ...

, Budberg fought in the battles of Guttstadt-Deppen, Heilsberg, Friedland, and Eylau, at which he was wounded in the arm. In 1811, he was made chief of His Majesty's Life-Guards Cuirassier Regiment, and maintained this command through the

French invasion of Russia The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign, the Second Polish War, the Army of Twenty nations, and the Patriotic War of 1812 was launched by Napoleon Bonaparte to force the Russian Empire back into the continental block ...

and the subsequent

War of the Sixth Coalition In the War of the Sixth Coalition (March 1813 – May 1814), sometimes known in Germany as the Wars of Liberation, a coalition of Austria, Prussia, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Sweden, and a number of German States defeated F ...

, where he distinguished himself in numerous battles, including Borodino, Kulm, and

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. He was promoted to major general in 1813. In 1816, Budberg was made commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Cuirassier Division and then commander of the 2nd Hussar Division in 1824. In 1826 he was promoted to lieutenant general and then fought in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828, during which he died of a sudden illness.

Personal life

He was married to Caroline Charlotte Jacobine Berens von Rautenfeld (1779-1839), daughter of Johann Georg Berens von Rautenfeld (1741-1805) and his wife, Elisabeth Charlotte von der Wenge genannt Lambsdorff (1749-1782). They had two daughters: * Baroness Eveline Anna Elisabeth von Budberg-Bönninghausen (1803-1878); married to MAtthias Dietrich von der Recke (1791-1869) and had issue * Baroness Henrietta von Budberg-Bönninghausen (d. 1847)

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Early life

Biography

Personal life

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