Ottone Enrico del Caretto or Del Carretto, Marquis of Grana (

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5 April 1639 – Mariemont, Hainaut 15 June 1685) was an Imperial Army commander and political figure.

Early life

Descendant from the old Italian noble Del Carretto family, he was the son of Don Francesco del Carretto,

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of Grana,

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of Millesimo (1590-1652) and his second wife, Anna Eusebia Teufel von Guntersdorf (1613–1644). The first marriage of his father to Margarethe Fugger zu Nordendorff und Wörth (1592-1652) had been annulled in 1629, Francesco remarried in 1632 to Anna Eusebia. Otto′s father Francesco served as Imperial general under

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and became Imperial ambassador in Madrid in 1641. When his father and his oldest brother Ferdinand both died in 1651, Otto became titular

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, Marquis of Grana, Count of

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, etc.

Biography

He became instantly famous on 11 August 1675 in the Battle of Konzer Brucke, he engaged the right flank on exactly the right moment against the French under

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, inflicting a severe defeat. On the battlefield a ''Grana-memorial'' was erected in 1892. He became a

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in 1678, Field Marshal of the Empire, Imperial ambassador in Madrid and General Captain and

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in April 1682.

Marriage and issue

On 31 July 1667 he married Countess Maria Theresia von

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(

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1641 –

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1682), widow of Count Franz Adam von

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(1631-1666). Together, they had two daughters: * Maria Enrichetta (

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1671 –

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1744), Margravine of Savona and Marquesses of Grana, Countess of Millesimo, etc., married Philippe Charles d'Arenberg, 3rd

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and

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(1663–1691) in Brussels on 12 February 1684, who was killed in the

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. * Maria Gabriella, (

1675 –

before 1700), married Charles François de la Barre, Comte d’Erquelinnes et de Olloy, Baron de Hierges in 1690. After the death of his first wife Ottone Enrico married, on 10 June 1683, Princess Maria Theresa von Arenberg (1666–1716), sister of his son-in-law.

Sources

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Arenberg family

References

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