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| Charles-Joseph | |||||
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| Prince de Ligne | |||||
| Reign | 7 April 1766 – 13 December 1814 | ||||
| Predecessor | Claude Lamoral | ||||
| Successor | Eugène | ||||
| Born | 23 May 1735 Brussels | ||||
| Died | 13 December 1814 (aged 79) Vienna, Austrian Empire | ||||
| Spouse | Princess Franziska of Liechtenstein | ||||
| Issue | Marie-Christine, Princess von Clary und Aldringen Prince Charles-Joseph Antoine Prince François Léopold Prince Louis-Eugène Prince Adalbert Xavier Euphémie Christine, Countess Pálffy ab Erdöd Flore, Baroness Spiegel | ||||
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| House | House of Ligne | ||||
| Father | Claude Lamoral, 6th Prince de Ligne | ||||
| Mother | Princess Elisabeth Alexandrine zu Salm | ||||
Charles-Joseph Lamoral, 7th Prince de Ligne in French; in German Karl-Joseph Lamoral 7. Fürst von Ligne[1] (also known as Karl Fürst von Ligne or Fürst de Ligne[2]): (23 May 1735 – 13 December 1814) was a field marshal, inhaber of an infantry regiment, prolific writer, intellectual, member of the princely family of Ligne. He fought as a field officer during several famous battles during the Seven Years' War and briefly returned to military duty in the War of the Bavarian Succession. He performed an important diplomatic mission to Catherine the Great in 1787 and led troops against the Turks at Belgrade in 1789. Beginning in the 1770s, he authored an impressive volume of work. After his estates in the Austrian Netherlands were lost to France during the War of the First Coalition, he lived in Vienna. All three of his sons died before him, but his wife and four daughters all outlived him. His grandson, the 8th Prince, became a Belgian statesman.
- ^ Der Fürst von Ligne und die Hohenzollern by Otto Tschirch, page 9 (in German)
- ^ Karl Fürst von Ligne, at bezirksmuseum.at