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Charles Eugène de Croÿ (pronunciado /ʃaʁl øʒɛn də kʁwi/; en alemán: Herzog Carl Eugen de Croÿ; en ruso: Карл Евгений де Круа, Karl Evgenij de Krua; 1651 - 30 de enero de 1702) fue un Mariscal de Campo alemán y ruso y un noble de la francesa Casa de Croÿ.
Charles Eugène de Croÿ (pronounced [ʃaʁl øʒɛn də kʁwi]; German: Herzog Carl Eugen de Croÿ; Russian: Карл Евгений де Круа, tr. Karl Evgenij de Krua; 1651 – 30 January [O.S. 20] 1702) was a German and Russian Field Marshal and nobleman from the French noble House of Croÿ.
- The Croÿs of Burgundy
- The Line of Croÿ-Aerschot
- The Line of Croÿ-Havré
- The Line of Croÿ-Roeulx
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Jean I de Croÿ was responsible for the ascendancy of his family to a position of supreme power in medieval Burgundy. He served Philip the Bold and his son John the Fearless in the capacity of councillor and chamberlain. In 1384 he married a wealthy heiress, Marie de Craon, successfully suing her first husband's family upon her death. In 1397, Jean ...
Antoine was succeeded as count of Porcéan by his eldest son, Philippe I de Croÿ, governor of Luxembourg and Ligny. Philippe I de Croÿ was raised together with Charles the Bold, who arranged Philippe's marriage to Jacqueline of Luxembourg in 1455. The bride's father was extremely against the alliance and attempted to win his daughter back by force, ...
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Charles Philippe de Croÿ (1549–1613) was the eldest son of Philippe II by his second wife, Anne of Lorraine. A successful imperial general, he was created Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1594. It was the first time when a simple baronwas admitted among Princes of the Empire. Charles Alexandre de Croÿ, Marquis d'Havré (1581–1624) was the son of the preceding. He inherited the title of Prince of Croÿ from his father, that of Count of Fontenoy from his mother, Diane de Dompmartin, and that of...
Second line
Marie Claire de Croÿ (1605–1664) was Charles Alexandre's only daughter by marriage to Princess Yolande de Ligne. She married two of her distant cousins, Charles Philippe de Croÿ, Marquis of Renty (in 1627) and then his brother Philippe Francois de Croÿ, Count of Solre (in 1643), in order to preclude the family estates from passing to another family. At the time of her first marriage, Philip III of Spainraised her marqusate of Havré to a dukedom, with her as the first duchess. By her first mar...
The line of Counts of Rœulx descends from Jean III de Croÿ (1436–1505), the second son of Antoine le Grand and younger brother of Philippe I. Jean III's grandson, Adrien de Croÿ, 1st Count of Rœulx, served as governor of Flanders and Artois before his death in combat in 1553. His granddaughter is remembered as La Belle Franchine, the beautiful mist...
Origins
The only line of the House of Croÿ existing today, that of Croÿ-Solre, descends from Antoine le Grand's younger brother, Jean II de Croÿ (1395–1473), who governed Hainaut and Namur in the name of the Dukes of Burgundy. His dominions were centred on the town of Chimay, of which he became the first count. In 1430, he was made one of the first Knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Jean II's grandson, Count Charles de Croÿ-Chimay (1455–1527), made a name for himself in the Battle of Guinegat...
Modern times
Towards the end of the 18th century, as other branches of the family were coming to an end, the line of Croÿ-Solre accumulated a number of their titles and possessions. During the French Revolution, Anne Emmanuel de Croÿ, 8th Duke of Croÿ (1743–1803), moved his seat from Le Rœulx to the Westphalian town of Dülmen, formerly a possession of his wife, a princess of Salm-Kyrburg. Among his sons, Prince Gustave of Croÿ (1773–1844) rose to become a cardinal and archbishop of Rouen. Another son, Aug...
Original armsJean I de CroÿPhilippe de CroÿJean II de CroÿGeorges Martin. Histoire et Généalogie Maison de Croÿ. HGMC, 2002. Werner Paravicini. Montée, crise, réorientation. Pour unse histoire de la famille de Croy au XVe siècle, in: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire 98 (2020), 2, pp. 149-355.
Charles Eugène de Croÿ (1651–1702) was the son of Jacques Philippe de Croÿ-Roeulx and Johanna Catharina van Bronckhorst. He served as a German and Russian Field Marshal and was an aristocrat from the French noble House of Croy. He married Wilhelmina Juliana van den Bergh, who was 13 years his...
Charles Eugene de Croy es un descendiente lejano de Antoine I er Grand Croÿ. Nació en la nobleza de Ponthieu en Picardía en la familia Croÿ . Es hijo de Jacques Philippe de Croÿ, príncipe de Croÿ (1614-1685), señor de Rœulx, y de la condesa Johanna van Bronckhorst-Batenburg (nacida en 1627), hija de Johann Jakob von Bronckhorst ...
Charles de Cro Prince of Chimay ( Dutch: Karel van Croij; 1506 – 11 December 1564) was a bishop of the See of Tournai in present-day Belgium from 1524 until 1564. Charles was born in 1506 as a member of the House of Cro.
Charles Eugène de Croÿ, Duc de Croÿ (* 1651 in Roeulx, Hainaut, Belgien; † 30. Januar 1702 in Reval, Schwedisch-Estland) war ein Feldmarschall im Dienste des römisch-deutschen Kaisers und des russischen Zaren.
