Friedrich Moritz, Graf Nostitz-Rieneck, also called Frederick Morris, was a field marshal in imperial service to the House of Habsburg. His son, Johann Nepomuk, Count Nostitz-Rieneck, was a field marshal in Habsburg service during the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to...

. Friedrich Moritz was born in 1728, and died in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

, Austria

Austria

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, on 19 November 1796.

Career

He joined the service, probably during the Austria's wars with Prussia in the 1740s, and was promoted to Colonel in 1759, during the Seven Years War. On 19 February 1766, he was promoted again, to Major General, and on 19 January 1771, he was promoted to Lieutenant Field Marshal, effective 25 February 1767. On 28 March 1785, he was promoted to General of the Cavalry, and on 15 May 1796, to Field Marshal. He was Captain of the Trabanten Life Guard and the Hofburg Watch, both honorary positions from April 1785 until May 1796. He was also president of the Aulic Council

Aulic Council

The Aulic Council was originally an executive-judicial council for the Holy Roman Empire....

, the Imperial cabinet advising the Holy Roman Emperor on military matters. He held this position from May 1796 until his death later that year. He was also a Privy Councilor and an Imperial and Royal Chamberlain. In 1790, he received the Order of the Golden Fleece

Order of the Golden Fleece

The Order of the Golden Fleece is an order of chivalry founded in Bruges by Philip III, Duke of Burgundy in 1430, to celebrate his marriage to the Portuguese princess Infanta Isabella of Portugal, daughter of King John I of Portugal. It evolved as one of the most prestigious orders in Europe...

. He and several of his brothers and uncles served the Austrian monarchs as diplomatic and military advisers.