Philippe Charles François, 3rd Duke of Arenberg (10 May 1663 — 25 August 1691) was also the 9th Duke of
Aarschot.
He became a knight of the
Order of the Golden Fleece
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in 1685. Like his father,
Charles Eugene, 2nd Duke of Arenberg, he was
Grand-Bailiff and
Captain-General of
Hainaut. The youngest general in the imperial army at the
Battle of Slankamen (in modern-day
Vojvodina, Serbia), he died from his wounds on 19 August 1691.
[''Journal de l'armée belge'', Vol.8, (Bruxelles, 1855), 19.]
He married Maria Enrichetta del Carretto,
Marchesa de
Grana e
Savona in Italy, in 1684. He was succeeded by their son,
Leopold Philippe d'Arenberg, as the 4th Duke of Arenberg, whose descendants include the current line of the
Prince-Dukes d'Arenberg, as well as
Empress Elisabeth of Austria and
Albert I, King of the Belgians.
His daughter Marie Anne (1689-1736) married François Egon de La Tour, Count d'Auvergne and Margrave of
Berg-op-Zoom, a French ''
prince étranger'' and nephew of the Marshal of France
Turenne. Marie Anne's daughter
Marie Henriette de La Tour d'Auvergne, Margravine of Berg-op-Zoom married
John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, and was the mother of
Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria.
See also
*
List of knights of the Golden Fleece
Notes
Further reading
*http://www.arenbergfoundation.eu The Arenberg archives, a family with very strong Flemish roots, quite important in Imperial Spain and later in the Holy Roman Empire, are located for the most part in
Arras,
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Enghien,
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Osnabrück,
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House of Ligne
Arenberg family
Dukes of Arenberg
Dukes of Aarschot
1663 births
1691 deaths
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