Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand Leopold von Forcade de Biaix

Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand Leopold von Forcade de Biaix,[1] aka Heinrich Friedrich Ferdinand Leopold von Forcade de Biaix,[2] aka Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand Leopold Marquis de Forcade de Biaix[3] (* 19 December 1747,[1] Berlin; † 12 October 1808,[1] Schleibitz Manor,[4] Oels, Silesia), was a Royal Prussian Lieutenant Colonel. He participated in the Rhine Campaigns,[1] during which he was awarded the Kingdom of Prussia's highest military order of merit for heroism, Knight of the Order of Pour le Mérite[1][3] and was Castellan (Drost) of Neuenrade in the County of Mark.[1] He was the owner of Schleibitz Manor,[5] near Oels, Silesia, at the time of his death.[4]

He was the third son,[1] of Royal Prussian Lieutenant General Friedrich Wilhelm Quirin von Forcade de Biaix, one of King Frederick the Great's most active and most treasured officers. His baptismal Godfather was none less than His Majesty Frederick the Great. As a gift, the King ordered his father to accept the hereditary title of Drost zu Neuenrade ("Castellan of Neuenrade") in the County of Mark with the royal command that it be transferred to him upon his death.[6]

Military career

He followed the military tradition of his family, and:

Family

Coat of Arms

Forcade-Biaix Coat of Arms, Prussian Branch, circa 1820

The family motto of the Prussian branch is "In Virtute Pertinax".[8]

Coat of Arms: An escutcheon with the field divided into four parts. Left half: argent tincture, a gules lion holding a sinople eradicated oak tree between its paws; azure tincture charged with three or mullets; Right half: a gules castle with three towers on an argent tincture; sinople tincture charged with three argent roses below it. A Grafenkrone (Count's coronet) as helmut on top of the escutcheon, crested with a or fleur-de-lis. Two or lions supporting the escutcheon. Motto: "In Virtute Pertinax".

Heraldic Symbolism: The lion symbolizes courage; the eradicated oak tree symbolizes strength and endurance; the towers are symbols of defense and of individual fortitude; the mullets (5-star) symbolizes divine quality bestowed by god; the rose is a symbol of hope and joy; the fleur-de-lis is the floral emblem of France; the coronet is a symbol of victory, sovereignty and empire. A Count's coronet to demonstrate rank and because the family originally served the counts of Foix and Béarn during the English Wars in the Middle Ages.

Forcade-Biaix Coat of Arms,[5][9] Silesia Branch, date unknown, pre-1900

Parents

His father was Friedrich Wilhelm Quirin von Forcade de Biaix (1698-1729), one of King Frederick the Great's most active and most treasured officers.[6][10] Twice wounded and left for dead on the battlefield, he was Regimentschef of the 23rd Prussian Infantry Regiment,[11][12] recipient of the Kingdom of Prussia's highest military order of merit for heroism, Knight of the Order of Pour le Mérite,[13] Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle,[6][11][13][14] Canon of Havelberg,[6] Castellan of Neuenrade in the County of Mark,[13] Lord Seneschal of Zinna,[6][10][11][13] President of the Ober-Collegium Sanitatis in Berlin and Lieutenant governor of Breslau.[11] He married in 1727 at the French Cathedral in Berlin with Marie de Montolieu, Baronne de St.-Hippolyte[10][15] aka Maria von Montaulieu, Freiin von St.-Hippolyte (1709-1767), daughter of Sardinian and Prussian Major General[15] Louis de Montolieu, Baron de St.-Hippolyte († 1738, Berlin), also a Huguenot exile.

Marriage

Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand Leopold von Forcade de Biaix married in 1782[1] at Ossen Manor in Oels, Silesia, to Wilhelmine von Koshembahr und Skorkau[1] (1762-????), from the house of Ossen.[6] She was the daughter of Christian Leopold von Koschembahr und Skorkau, Herr of Ober- and Nieder-Ossen, Pühlau, Dörndorf and Jacobsdorf, and his 2nd wife Charlotte Wilhelmine Wutge von Wutgenau.

Children

The couple had three sons[1] from their marriage:

Other Family

Titles and Offices

Historical terms, in particular those related to offices, titles and awards, are often outdated in their usage to the point that modern dictionaries no longer contain them. To understand their meaning in the present day context it is necessary to look into dictionaries from the period. Historical terms in German used in the production of this article, and their English definitions, include:

Drost zu Neuenrade

Castellan of Neuenrade

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Zedlitz-Neukirch, Band 4, Page 391 (in German)
  2. ↑ Blažek, Part 3, Page 131 (in German)
  3. 1 2 3 Lehmann, Band 1, Page 209, Nr. 145 (in German)
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Zedlitz-Neukirch, Band 2, Page 180 (in German)
  5. 1 2 Blažek, Part 3, Page 132 (in German)
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Zedlitz-Neukirch, Band 4, Page 390 (in German)
  7. ↑ Gieraths, Band 8, Page 189 (in German)
  8. ↑ Champeaux, Page 105 (in French)
  9. ↑ Blažek, Part 3, Page 267, Table 85 (in German)
  10. 1 2 3 Zedlitz-Neukirch, Band 2, Page 179 (in German)
  11. 1 2 3 4 Heinsius, Issue 52, Page 241, Nr. V (in German)
  12. ↑ Gieraths, Band 8, Page 79 (in German)
  13. 1 2 3 4 König, Band 1, Page 430 (in German)
  14. ↑ Ledebur, Band 17, Page 43 (in German)
  15. 1 2 König, Band 1, Page 431 (in German)
  16. 1 2 3 4 Zedlitz-Neukirch, Band 4, Page 392 (in German)

References

Literature

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