Emmanuel von Mensdorff-Pouilly, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Emmanuel von Mensdorff-Pouilly

Count of Mensdorff-Pouilly

Date of Birth: 24-Jan-1777

Place of Birth: Pouilly-sur-Meuse, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 28-Jun-1852

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Emmanuel von Mensdorff-Pouilly

  • Emmanuel, count of Mensdorff-Pouilly (24 January 1777 – 28 June 1852) was an army officer in the Imperial and Royal Army of the Austrian Empire, and vice-governor of Mainz.
  • He was the uncle of Queen Victoria and the Godfather of her husband Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The Mensdorff-Pouilly family originated from the barony of Pouilly in Stenay on the river Meuse in Lorraine.
  • Albert-Louis, Baron de Pouilly et de Chaffour, Comte de Roussy (1731–1795) and his wife Marie Antoinette (1746–1800) emigrated together with their children during the French revolution.
  • Their sons, Albert (1775–1799) and Emmanuel (baptised at Nancy on 24 January 1777), took the name Mensdorff from a community in the county of Roussy, Luxembourg. The brothers entered military service against revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and Albert was killed in battle.
  • At the start of the War of the Fifth Coalition Emmanuel held the rank of major.
  • On 13 April 1809 he was wounded while leading a company of the 8th Jäger in action near Amberg.
  • By 23 April he had recovered enough to partake in the cavalry battles at the start of the Battle of Ratisbon.
  • He was decorated with the Military Order of Maria Theresa for his services in the war.
  • In 1810 he was given command of the Galician regiment of ulans „Erzherzog Carl“ Nr.
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  • Serving as a commander of a cavalry brigade in Bohemia, Mensdorff-Pouilly became commander of the Fortress of Mainz.
  • From 1829 to 1834 Mensdorff-Pouilly also served as vice-governor of Mainz.
  • After again having served in Bohemia, in 1840 Mensdorff-Pouilly became vice-president of the Hofkriegsrat.
  • In 1848 he retired from the army with the rank of feldmarschallleutnant.
  • During the Revolution of 1848 Mensdorff-Pouilly was sent as a commissioner to Prague, where he tried in vain to impress on the Prince of Windisch-Grätz the necessity to avoid bloodshed.

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