Frederick Augustus Rutowsky
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Frederick Augustus, Count Rutowsky (also writted Rutowski) (b. Warsaw/Dresden [?], 19 June 1702 - d. Pillnitz, 16 March 1764), was a Saxon Field Marshal.
He was an illegitimate son of August the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, by the turk Fatima (later renamed as Maria Anna of Spiegel), who was a maid of the Countess Maria Aurora of Königsmarck, August's former official mistress.
[edit] Life
Frederick Augustus was recognized by his father in 1724. He got his education in Paris and at the Sardinian court. On 26 May 1727 he stepped as a Major-General in the Saxonian Army and shortly after he served under the Prussian services; however, in 1729 he returned again to the Saxonian Army. During the following years he participated in the campaigns in Poland and on the Rhine, became in Lieutenant-General on 1 January 1736 and Commander of the Garde du Corps. As such he stood in 1737 as the leader of the Saxon Contingent in the war against the turks in Hungary.
On 21 April 1738 he became General of the Cavalry, on 9 August 1740 Governor of Dresden and Commander of the Grenadier Guard, in the Colonel's House (Obristhaus) on 10 August and Country Stuff Master (Landzeugmeister). On 10 January 1742 took place his appointment as Chief of a Dragoon's Regiment.
On 4 January 1739 Frederick Augustus married with the Princess Ludovika Amalie Lubomirska. They had only one son, August Joseph, Count Rutowsky (b. 1741 - d. 1755).
During the First Silesian War he commanded the Saxon troops in Bohemia and participated with the same on the 26 November 1742 in the storming of Prague. Frederick Augustus commanded the troops stayed behind in Saxony, then this combined near Leipzig with the biggest part of the Saxonian Army come back from Bohemia in the battle of Kesselsdorf (15 December 1745), where they suffered the crucial defeat in the Second Silesian War against the Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau.
On 6 January 1746 he was ranked General en Chef, and on 11 January 1749, at last, he was appointed Field Marshal carried, he did not succeed in spite of multiple efforts, which to turn away during the next peace years of the prime minister Brühl about the Army to the covered reductions which put their nimbleness infrage. He had to hand over on the contrary with the Seven Years' War suddenly breaking out with Prussia the quickly pulled together and in the warehouse near Pirna strong Saxonian Army combined with only 18,100 men on 16 October 1756 make the King Frederick II of Prussia as prisoner of war.
During the years of war Rutowsky stayed in Saxony and renounced directly to all its military dignities after the Treaty of Hubertusburg on 8 March 1763. He died one year later, aged sixty-two.
