Karl II, Graf von Mansfeld

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Karl von Mansfeld

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Mechelen, Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium
Death: August 14, 1596 (50-51)
Komárom, Komárom-Esztergom County, Hungary
Immediate Family:

Son of Peter Ernst I, Graf von Mansfeld and Margaretha van Brederode
Husband of Diane de Cossé Brissac and Marie-Chrétienne d’Egmont
Brother of Friedrich von Mansfeld and Polyxena von Mansfeld
Half brother of Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld; Philipp Oktavian von Mansfeld and Dorothea von Mansfeld-Friedeburg

Managed by: George J. Homs
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About Karl II, Graf von Mansfeld

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_von_Mansfeld

Karl von Mansfeld (1543 – 24 August 1595) was a German general during the Cologne War and the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.

Von Mansfeld was the son of Count Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, born in present day Luxembourg, and was educated in France. He entered the military of Philip II of Spain, and was appointed a general and an admiral in the navy of the Spanish Netherlands. He was sent to Hungary, where along with Count Mátyás Cseszneky he participated in the siege of Esztergom in 1595 during the Long War. He died shortly thereafter, probably of his wounds, in Komárom.

Family

He married twice, first to Diane de Cossé and, second, to Marie Christine von Egmond, who died 1622.

She had, from her second marriage, a son, Alexandre de Bournonville Duc de Bournonville, Comte de Henin-Lietard (14 September 1585, Brussels, died 21 March 1656), and, probably with Mansfeld, a second son, Antoine III de Lalaing (born between 1588 and 1590 and died 26 September 1613), Count of Hoogstraeten, who married Maria Margaretha de Berlaymont, daughter of Claude Berlaymont, also known as Haultpenne.

Siblings

From his father's first marriage on 1.4.1542 to Margaretha van Brederode (*ca 1520, died 31 may 1554);

Friedrich, *1542, died 1559

Polyxene, +after 17 September 1591; m. Palamedes von Nassau-Chalon (+1600)
Step Siblings:

From his father's second marriage 22.2.1562 Marie de Montmorency (+5.2.1570)

Philipp Oktavian, *1564, +1591

Dorothea; m. Franz Verdugo
Natural Sibling [by Anna von Benzerath]

Peter Ernst II von Mansfeld *1580,  † near Sarajevo 29.11.1626
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Karl II, Graf von Mansfeld's Timeline

1545
1545
Mechelen, Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium
1596
August 14, 1596
Age 51
Komárom, Komárom-Esztergom County, Hungary