Frederic Augustus Alexander, Duke of Beaufort-Spontin

Frederic, 1st Duke of Beaufort-Spontin

Frederic Augustus Alexander of Beaufort-Spontin, Duke of Beaufort^{[lower-alpha 1]} (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.^[1]

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.^[2]

Beaufort was Governor-General of the Austrian Netherlands^[3] 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.^[2]

Notes

1. French: Frédéric Auguste Alexandre duc de Beaufort-Spontin

1. Poplimont 1863, pp. 445–453.
2. Poplimont 1863, p. 445.
3. Mabille, Xavier (2011). Nouvelle histoire politique de la Belgique. CRISP (Centre de recherche et d'information socio-politique). p. 62. ISBN 978-2-87075-113-8.

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Poplimont, Ch (1863), La Belgique héraldique: recueil historique, chronologique, généalogique et biographique complet de toutes les maisons nobles reconnues de la Belgique (in French) 1, Brussels, pp. 445-453