Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg

Count Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg (27 May 1684 – 26 May 1774) was an Austrian general.

Born in Schwaigern, he descended from an ancient comital family from Swabia, his father Count Eberhard Friedrich von Neipperg (1655–1725) having been an Imperial field marshal. He spent his boyhood in Vienna and in 1702 joined the Imperial service. He was a Obristlieutnant in his father's regiment in 1709, and by 1715 was a colonel. He distinguished himself at Temesvar in 1716 and at Belgrade in 1717.

After fighting against the Turks, he renounced his military career in order to attend to the education of Prince Francis of Lorraine, the future Holy Roman Emperor. Neipperg was with Fieldmarshal Wallis, at the Battle of Grocka^[1] and negotiated the Peace of Belgrade (1739).^[2] Two years later, during the War of Austrian Succession, he commanded the Austrian Army which was defeated at the Battle of Mollwitz by Frederick II of Prussia.^[3]

His daughter, Maria Wilhelmina von Neipperg, became mistress of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. His grandson Adam Albert von Neipperg married Napoleon's widow Marie Louise.

He died at Vienna in 1774.

Notes

^ Wheatcroft, Andrew, The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe, (Bodley Head Random House, 2008), 240.
^ Ingrao, Charles W., The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815, (Cambridge University Press, 1994), 147.
^ Jones, Archer, The art of war in the Western world, (University of Illinois Press, 1987), 295.

References

Ingrao, Charles W., The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Jones, Archer, The art of war in the Western world, University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Wheatcroft, Andrew, The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe, Bodley Head Random House, 2008.

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Name	Neipperg, Wilhelm Reinhard
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Date of birth	27 May 1684
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