MILITARY PERSONNEL

Prince Eugene of Savoy

1663 - 1736

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Prince Eugene Francis of Savoy-Carignano (18 October 1663 – 21 April 1736), better known as Prince Eugene, was a distinguished feldmarschall in the Army of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty during the 17th and 18th centuries. Renowned as one of the greatest military commanders of his era, Prince Eugene also rose to the highest offices of state at the Imperial court in Vienna, spending six decades in the service of three emperors. Born in Paris, to the son of a French count and a niece of Cardinal Mazarin, Eugene was raised at the court of King Louis XIV. Initially destined for the priesthood as the youngest son of a noble family, he chose to pursue a military career at 19. Due to his poor physique and possibly a scandal involving his mother, Louis XIV denied him a commission in the French Royal Army and forbade him from enlisting elsewhere. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Prince Eugene of Savoy is the 16th most popular military personnel (up from 54th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from France (up from 212th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Military Personnel.

Prince Eugene of Savoy was a military commander in the Austrian army during the War of Spanish Succession. He is most famous for his victories over the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Zenta and the Battle of Belgrade.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Prince Eugene of Savoy ranks 16 out of 2,058. Before him are Charles XIV John of Sweden, Oda Nobunaga, Erwin Rommel, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Khalid ibn al-Walid, and Charles Martel. After him are Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Spartacus, Vasily Zaitsev, Romulus Augustulus, Flavius Aetius, and Jochi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1663, Prince Eugene of Savoy ranks 1. After him are Thomas Newcomen, Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, Árni Magnússon, Guillaume Amontons, Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Princess Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach, August Hermann Francke, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Luca Carlevarijs, Agafya Grushetskaya, and Ogata Kenzan. Among people deceased in 1736, Prince Eugene of Savoy ranks 1. After him are Ahmed III, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Antonio Caldara, Stephen Gray, Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine, Filippo Juvarra, Louise Diane d'Orléans, Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, Theophan Prokopovich, and Caspar van Wittel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Prince Eugene of Savoy ranks 83 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Chirac (1932), Pope Urban II (1042), Edgar Degas (1834), Henry III of France (1551), Louis IX of France (1214), and Henri Bergson (1859). After him are Tacitus (54), Jacques Cartier (1491), Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757), Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Pope Clement V (1264), and Jacques-Louis David (1748).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Prince Eugene of Savoy ranks 4. Before him are Joan of Arc (1412), Charles de Gaulle (1890), and Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763). After him are Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757), Alfred Dreyfus (1859), Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611), Eugène de Beauharnais (1781), Ferdinand Foch (1851), Theodor Eicke (1892), Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770), and Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1769).

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