Count Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg (27 May 1684 – 26 May 1774) was an Austria

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n general.

Born in Schwaigern

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, he descended from an ancient comital

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 family from Swabia

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, his father Count Eberhard Friedrich von Neipperg (1655–1725) having been an Imperial

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 field marshal

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. He spent his boyhood in Vienna and in 1702 joined the Imperial service. He was a Obristlieutnant in his father's regiment in 1709, and by 1715 was a colonel. He distinguished himself at Temesvar in 1716 and at Belgrade

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 in 1717.

After fighting against the Turks, he renounced his military career in order to attend to the education of Prince Francis of Lorraine

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, the future Holy Roman Emperor

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. Neipperg was with Fieldmarshal Wallis

George Olivier, count of Wallis

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, at the Battle of Grocka

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 and negotiated the Peace of Belgrade (1739). Two years later, during the War of Austrian Succession, he commanded the Austrian Army which was defeated at the Battle of Mollwitz

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 by Frederick II of Prussia

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His daughter, Maria Wilhelmina von Neipperg

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, became mistress of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor

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. His grandson Adam Albert von Neipperg

Adam Albert von Neipperg

Adam Albert, Count von Neipperg was an Austrian general and statesman. The son of a diplomat, famous for inventing a letter-copying machine, and a French mother, he was the grandson of Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg....

 married Napoleon's widow Marie Louise

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He died at Vienna

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in 1774.