Count Károly József Batthyány of Németújvár ( hu, németújvári gróf Batthyány Károly József, Károly József Batthyány, german: Karl Josef Graf Batthyány, hr, Karlo Josip grof Baćan; 28 April 1697,

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– 15 April 1772,

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) was a Hungarian general and field marshal. He served as

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) of

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from 1743 to 1756. Károly József Batthyány was born in 1697, the son of Hungarian count Adam II. Batthyány and German countess Eleonore Strattmann. He served in the Austrian army under

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in the war against the Turks, and participated in the battles in

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, Temeswar and Belgrade. He commanded in 1734, as a general Imperial troops at the Rhine against France, and in 1737 against the Turks. From 1739 to 1740, he was the envoy at the Berlin Court, but returned, however, after the outbreak of the

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with Prussia. In the

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(1744), he served again as a corps commander. He faced the French under General Ségur in the Battle of Pfaffenhofen on 15 April 1745. In spite of numerical inferiority, he won a huge victory. Batthyány then united forces with Field Marshal

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, defeated the French again and forced them back over the Rhine. In 1746, he served under the command of Charles of Lorraine in Belgium and took part in the

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, in 1747. Serving under the command of the

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, he executed an exemplary withdrawal in Lauffeldt. After the war, Empress

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elevated him to the rank of prince (imperial title) on 3 January 1764., he later served as an advisor to the crown prince and later Emperor Joseph II of Austria. Batthyány was married three times, to Maria Anna Barbara von Waldstein, then to Maria Theresa Countess von Strattmann, and finally to Maria Antonia Nemetujvari Countess Batthyány, daughter of his brother

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. He spent his old age in Vienna, where he died in 1772.

References

Sources

* Wilhelm Edler von Janko: ''Batthyány, Karl Josef.'' In: '' Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Bd. 2'', S. 133–134. *

External links

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