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François-Eugène, Prince of Savoy-Carignan, known as Prinz Eugen in German ( October 16, 1663- April 24, 1736) was a noted general.Born in Paris, and a prince of the House of Savoy, Eugene was the son of the Comte de Soissons, a French nobleman. It was rumoured that he was the illegitimate son of Louis XIV, however, and Louis strove mightily to keep down his supposed by-blow. Eugene was rebuffed from a commission in the French army and, frustrated, joined the Austrian army as an officer in 1683. He would spend the rest of his life opposing Louis XIV and French ambition in Europe.
For the first part of his career he faced the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield, first coming to prominence during the last major Turkish offensive against the Austrian capital of Vienna in 1688. By the closing years of the 17th century, he was already famous for securing Hungary from the Turks, and soon rose to the role of principal Austrian commander during the War of the Spanish Succession.
In the opening shots of that war, he defeated French armies in northern Italy. As the area of French offensive action moved north (and as the war spread to include other nations such as England), he joined forces for the first time with his English counterpart, the Duke of Marlborough. Together they defeated the French in BavariaWith an area of 70,553 km² and 11. 6 million inhabitants, the Free State of Bavaria ( German Bayern or Freistaat Bayern forms the southernmost of the 16 Bundeslander of Germany. Its capital is Munich. Geography Bavaria shares international borders with Au at the Battle of BlenheimThe Battle of Blenheim was a major battle in the War of the Spanish Succession, August 13, 1704. A French and Bavarian army, under Count Camille de Tallard and Maximilian II Emanuel, elector of Bavaria, were advancing on the Austrian capital of Vienna.. For the next three years he was engaged in inconclusive fighting in northern ItalyThe Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Italia is a country in the south of Europe, consisting mainly of a boot-shaped peninsula together with two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. To the north, where it borders France, Switzer and ProvenceProvence is a former province and is now a region of southeastern France, located on the Mediterranean Sea adjacent to France's border with Italy. It is now part of the administrative region of Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur. The traditional region of Provenc.
He then moved north to Flanders, where he joined up with Marlborough again to win the battles of OudenardeBattle of Oudenarde Conflict War of the Spanish Succession Date July 11, 1708 PlaceNear Oudenarde ResultDecisive Allied victory Combatants Allied Countries France Commanders Duke of Marlborough Duke of Burgundy, Duke of Vendome Strength 105,000 troops100, and MalplaquetThe Battle of Malplaquet was a battle of the War of the Spanish Succession that took place on September 11, 1709 between France and a British- Austrian alliance (known as the Allies). The British and Austrians were led by the Duke of Marlborough and Princ. Unfortunately, the follow-up invasion of France that would have ended the war was blunted by the marginal victory of Malplaquet, and the retirement of Britain from the war. After one more year of fighting, Austria signed a favourable peace with France in 1714. In the same year he began construction the BelvedereThe Belvedere is a baroque palace complex built by Prince Eugene of Savoy in the 3rd district of Vienna, south-eastern from the city's center. After buying the plot of land in 1697, Savoy had a large park created. In 1714 work began to erect what is now c, a baroquePeter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint The Baroque was a style in art that used exaggerated motion and abundant detail to prod palace in the 3rd district of Vienna. Construction of various parts of the palace complex continued until 1723.
One of the new Austrian possessions after this war were the former Spanish, now Austrian Netherlands. Eugene was made governor of this area, then later became vicar of the Austrian lands in Italy. Just two years after the end of the war against France, he led the Austrian armies during the Austro-Turkish War of 1716-18 . He achieved a series of decisive victories, including the Battle of Belgrade that led to the Treaty of Passarowitz. This temporarily added northern Serbia and Bosnia to the Austrian crown, and ended the Turkish threats to Vienna once and for all. Late in his life he engaged in one last war, the War of the Polish Succession. He died in Vienna in 1736, and is buried in a chapel of honor in the Cathedral of Saint Stephan there.
The World War II German warship DKM Prinz Eugen was named after Eugene of Savoy.
