Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne

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Field Marshal Charles Joseph Lamoral, Prince of Ligne was born on 23 May 1735 in Brussels, Belgium, son of Claude Lamoral II, sixth Prince of Ligne, and Princess Elisabeth of Salm-Salm. He had as a godfather and godmother the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and his wife. He was an aristocrat, a military man, a writer, a garden fancier, a moralist and a memoirist. He died on 13 December 1814 in Vienna, Austria. He was Prince of Ligne and of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Amblise and of Épinoy, Grandee of Spain, Marquis of Roubaix, Count of Fauquemberg and of Nichin, Viscount of Leyden, Baron of Werchin, of Beloeil, of Antoing, of Cisoing, of Villiers and of Jeumont, Sovereign of Fagneules, Lord of Baudour, of Ponthoir, of Montreuil, of Hauterange, of Pommereul and of Ollignies, First Lord of Flandres, of Par and of Seneshal and Marshal of Hainaut.

As ensign he took actively engaged in the Seven Year war, the young officer takes part in the battles of Kollin, Schweinitz, Breslau, Leuthen; Olmütz, Hochkirch and Thiennendorf. As Colonel he takes part in the Battle of Künersdorf. After the Austrian victory in the battle of Maxen, he was sent to Versailles to officially announce this success to the court de France. He received the collar of the Golden Fleece in 1772.

On 20 May 1791 is named Grand-Baillif and Captain-General of Hainaut. He manages this province with civil and the soldier in the name of the emperor Léopold II. After the Austrian defeat of Fleurus the prince leaves Beloeil and the Netherlands. He will never return there. He fixes his residence in Vienna on Mölkerbastei.

[edit] Marriage and children

He married with Princess Francoise Marie Xavière of Liechtenstein (1739–1821) in Vienna on 6 August 1755.

Charles Antoine Lamoral Ghislain de Ligne (1759-1792), married with Princess Apolline Hélène Potocka Massalska
Louis Eugène de Ligne (1766-1813)
Christine de Ligne, married a prince of Clary-Aldringen