Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Ernst Heinrich von Forcade de Biaix

Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Ernst Heinrich von Forcade de Biaix,[2] aka Ferdinand von Forcade[1] (* 7 October 1787,[2] Brieg,[2] Silesia; † 14 November 1835,[1] Rawicz,[1] Posen), Royal Prussian Major and Knight of the Iron Cross 2nd Class.[1]

Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Ernst Heinrich von Forcade de Biaix
Born(1787-10-07)7 October 1787
Died(1835-11-14)14 November 1835[1]
Burial placeRawitsch, Posen, Prussia[1]
Spouse(s)Josephine Caroline von Neumann (1827)
Parent(s)Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand Leopold von Forcade de Biaix
Johanna Christine Wilhelmine von Koschembahr und Skorkau from the house of Ossen
Military career
Allegiance Prussia
Service/branchPrussian Army
Years of service1802-1835[1]
RankMajor[1]
Unit32nd Prussian Infantry Regiment (1802-1807)
18th Prussian Infantry Regiment (1807-1835)
Commands held10th Division's Garrison Company, 18th Prussian Infantry Regiment[1] (1833)
Battles/wars
AwardsKnight of the Iron Cross 2nd Class (1814),[1]
Distinguished Service Cross,[1]
Kriegsdenkmünze für 1813/15[1]

He was a grandson 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, a Huguenot descendant of the noble family of Forcade and one of a third generation of decorated Prussian Army officers in the Forcade de Biaix dynasty. His last command was as commanding officer of the 10th Prussian Division's Garrison Company. He served the Prussian Army with 32¾ years of service.

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".[3]

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,[4][5] Silesia Branch, date unknown, pre-1900

Parents

His father was Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand Leopold von Forcade de Biaix[6] (1747-1808), a Royal Prussian lieutenant colonel, recipient of Kingdom of Prussia's highest military order of merit for heroism, Knight of the Order of Pour le Mérite[6] and Castellan (Drost) of Neuenrade in the County of Mark.[6] He married in 1782[6] at Ossen Manor in Oels, Silesia, to Wilhelmine von Koshembahr und Skorkau[6] (1762-?), from the house of Ossen.[7] 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 von Wutgenau.

Marriage

Ferdinand von Forcade de Biaix married on 15 February 1827 in Fraustadt, Posen with Josephine Caroline von Neumann (1795-1882), from Warsaw, the daughter of Johann August von Neumann and Franziska von Pawlowicz. Their marriage was childless. Although she was only 40 years old at the time of his death, she never remarried.

Other Family

Notes

  1. Rawitsch Evangelical Military Parish, Marriages and Deaths Vol. 1834-1871 p. 3, Nr. 4 (in German manuscript) (subscription required)
  2. Schlesische Provinzialblätter, Nov. 1787, Page 476 (Viewer Page 92) (in German)
  3. Champeaux, Page 105 (in French)
  4. Blažek, Part 3, Page 132 (in German)
  5. Blažek, Part 3, Page 267, Table 85 (in German)
  6. Zedlitz-Neukirch, Band 4, Page 391 (in German)
  7. Zedlitz-Neukirch, Band 4, Page 390 (in German)
  8. VIFA - Ausländer im vorrevolutionären Russland, Institut für Ost- und Südeuropaforschung, Erik-Amburger-Datenbank, Datensatz: 86859 (in German)

References

  • Blažek, Konrad: J. Siebmacher's grosses und allgemeines Wappenbuch in einer neuen, vollständig geordneten und reich vermehrten Auflage mit heraldischen und historisch- genealogischen Erläuterungen; Sechsten Bandes Achte Abtheilung. Der abgestorbene Adel der Preussischen Provinz Schlesien. Dritter Theil, Nürnberg 1894, Page 131 & Page 267 Table 85. (in German)
  • Champeaux, Joseph de: Devises, cris de guerre, légendes, dictons, Dijon 1890, Page 105. (in French)
  • Schlesische Provinzialblätter, November 1787, Page 476 (Viewer Page 92) (in German)
  • Zedlitz-Neukirch, Leopold von: Neues preußisches Adelslexicon oder genealogische und diplomatische Nachrichten von den in der preussischen Monarchie ansässigen oder zu derselben in Beziehung stehenden fürstlichen, gräflichen, freiherrlichen und adeligen Häusern mit der Angabe ihrer Abstammung, ihres Besitzthums, ihres Wappens und der aus ihnen hervorgegangenen Civil- und Militärpersonen, Helden, Gelehrten und Künstler: E - H, Band 2, 1836, Pages 179-180. (in German)
  • Zedlitz-Neukirch, Leopold von: Neues preußisches Adelslexicon oder genealogische und diplomatische Nachrichten von den in der preussischen Monarchie ansässigen oder zu derselben in Beziehung stehenden fürstlichen, gräflichen, freiherrlichen und adeligen Häusern mit der Angabe ihrer Abstammung, ihres Besitzthums, ihres Wappens und der aus ihnen hervorgegangenen Civil- und Militärpersonen, Helden, Gelehrten und Künstler: P - Z, Band 4, 1837, Pages 390-392. (in German)

Literature

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  • Danty, Pierre: Revue de Pau et du Béarn, Une famille béarnaise au service de la Prusse : les Forcade-Biaix, La Société des Sciences Lettres et Arts de Pau et du Béarn, 1978, Nr. 6, Pages 269-272. (in French)
  • Ebers, Johann, The New And Complete Dictionary Of The German And English Languages: composed chiefly after the German Dictionaries of Mr. Adelung and of Mr. Schwan / 1: ... Containing the Letters A - G of the German Alphabet explained in English, Leipzig 1796 (in German and English)
  • Ebers, Johann, The New And Complete Dictionary Of The German And English Languages: composed chiefly after the German Dictionaries of Mr. Adelung and of Mr. Schwan / 2: ... Containing the Letters H - R of the German Alphabet explained in English, Leipzig 1796 (in German and English)
  • Ebers, Johann, The New And Complete Dictionary Of The German And English Languages: composed chiefly after the German Dictionaries of Mr. Adelung and of Mr. Schwan / 3: ... Containing the Letters S - Z of the German Alphabet explained in English, Leipzig 1796 (in German and English)
  • Gieraths, Günther: Die Kampfhandlungen der brandenburgisch-preussischen Armee, 1626-1807, Band 8, Berlin 1964, Pages 79 & 111. (in German)
  • Kneschke, Ernst Heinrich: Neues allgemeines Deutsches Adels-Lexicon, Band 3, Leipzig 1861, Pages 293-294. (in German)
  • König, Anton Balthasar: Biographisches Lexikon aller Helden und Militairpersonen, welche sich in Preußischen Diensten berühmt gemacht haben: A - F, Band 1, Pages 429-432. (in German)
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  • Ledebur, Leopold von: Allgemeines Archiv für die Geschichtskunde des Preußischen Staates, Band 17, Berlin 1835, Page 43. (in German)
  • Priesdorff, Kurt von: Soldatisches Führertum, Band 1, Hamburg 1937, Pages 354-356, Nr. 371. (in German)
  • Schöning, Kurd Wolfgang von: Die Generale der chur-brandenburgischen und königlich preussischen Armee von 1640-1840. (Chronologische Uebersicht der Brandenb. Preuss. Generalität seit 1640.) Eine historische Uebersicht, sammt vielen eingewebten urkundlichen Notizen als Jubelschrift dem vaterländischen Kriegesheere geweiht, Page 71, Nr. 364. (in German)
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