Frédéric Auguste Alexandre de Beaufort-Spontin

Belgian noble
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroBelgian noble
PlacesBelgium
wasChamberlain
Work fieldReligion
Gender
Male
Birth14 September 1751, Namur, Belgium
Death22 April 1817Brussels, Belgium (aged 65 years)
Star signVirgo
Family
Children:Comtesse Francoise de Beaufort-Spontin Friedrich Ludwig Ladislaus Herzog von Beaufort-Spontin Valerie Georgine Gräfin von Beaufort-Spontin Merie Hermenegilde von Beaufort-Spontin Karl Alfred Herzog von Beaufort-Spontin
The details

Biography

Frederic, 1st Duke of Beaufort-Spontin

Frederic Augustus Alexander of Beaufort-Spontin, Duke of Beaufort (Namur, 14 September 1751 – Brussels, April 1817), was a member of the House of Beaufort-Spontin, a Belgian noble family that opposed Napoleon I of France.

Biography

Beaufort was, by letters patent of the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, dated 2 December 1782, count of the Holy Roman Empire, Marquis of Florennes, etc. and a privy councillor and chamberlain of Archduke Charles of Austria in Brussels.

Beaufort was Governor-General of the Austrian Netherlands on behalf of the Sixth Coalition Powers in 1814, and President of the Privy Council, chamberlain, and grand marshal of the court of King William I of the Netherlands. He was also a member of the First Chamber of the States General and Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.

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