Louis Aloysius, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein
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Louis Aloy Prince de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein (German: Ludwig Aloysius Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein; (August 18, 1765 – May 30, 1829) was a German prince and Marshal of France.
Hohenlohe was born at Bartenstein in Hohenlohe-Bartenstein. In 1784 he entered the service of the Palatinate, which he quitted in 1792 to take command as a colonel of a French army regiment raised by his father for the service of the emigré princes of France. He greatly distinguished himself under Condé in the campaigns of 1792–93, especially at the storming of the lines of Wissembourg.
Subsequently he entered the service of the Netherlands, and, when almost surrounded by the army of General Pichegru, conducted a masterly retreat from the island of Bommelerwaard to the Waal. After the Dutch surrendered to the French armies, Hohenlohe joined the Austrian army with whom he fought in the campaigns of 1794 to 1798. The following year he was named major-general by the Archduke Charles of Austria. Hohenlohe was promoted to the rank of Feldmarshallleutnant in 1806 and the next year saw him being appointed governor of Galicia.
Napoleon offered to restore to Hohenlohe his principality of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein on condition that he adhered to the Confederation of the Rhine, but as he refused, it was united to Württemberg. Hohenlohe entered French service with the rank of lieutenant general after the fall of Napoleon and the restoration of the House of Bourbon in 1814. The following year he held the command of a regiment raised by himself, with which he took part in the Spanish campaign of 1823. The same year he was naturalized a French citizen, upon which he was made a Peer. In 1827 was given the distinction of Marshal of France. He died at Lunéville in 1829.
