The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I / Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts.

by Freiherr von Karl Ludwig Pöllnitz

[119] He died at Ludwigsbourg the 23d of Nov. 1731.

[120] He was Velt-Marshal of the Emperor's Forces, and Governor of Servia and Belgrade. He is one of the famous Generals of our Age, on whom Prince Eugene set a great Value. When he came to the Succession he obtain'd of the Diet of the Empire the Post of Velt-Marshal-General jointly with the Duke of Brunswic-Bevern and the Prince of Anhalt. He married Mary-Augusta of Tour Taxis, by whom he has Children. He has two Brothers in the Emperor's Service, viz. Prince Frederic, and Prince Lewis, who distinguish'd themselves in the last War upon the Rhine.

[121] M. de Pollnitz left the Court in 1732, and is since retir'd to his lands in Saxony.

[122] This Prince died the Beginning of the Year 1732, and left one Son.

[123] He his since marry'd a Princess of Brandenburg-Bareith, who has embrac'd the Catholic Religion.

[124] He was advanc'd to the Office of Secretary at War in the room of M. le Blanc, and was succeeded as Intendant of Alsace by M. de Harlay, formerly Intendant of Metz; and when the latter was made Intendant of Paris he was succeeded by M. de Brou.

[125] The Wife of Lewis the Dauphin who was Lewis XIVth's only Son.

[126] The Duchess of Orleans who is of the Baden Family, and the Duchess of Bourbon.

[127] The famous Cardinal William Egon de Furstemberg Bishop of Strasbourg died the 10th of April 1704, and was immediately succeeded by the Abbot de Rohan, who was chose Co-adjutor Jan. 31, 1701.

[128] Strasbourg was an Episcopal See before the Year 376, for one Arnaud Bishop of Strasbourg was then present at the Council of Cologne. The Chapter is composed of 24 Members, viz. 12 Capitulars, and 12 Domicilairs, who must be all Princes or Counts. From 1592 the Canons were Lutherans, and Catholics till 1681, when Lewis XIV. having taken Strasbourg, established a Bishop there whose See was at Molsheim, and caused the Cathedral to be restored to the Catholic Canons; and notwithstanding the contrary Dispositions of the Treaty of Westphalia, in 1687, he turn'd the Lutheran Canons out of Brudersdorff, and the Prebends which they retain'd in the Chapter: Nevertheless the Lutheran Religion is tolerated in this City.