Guido, Graf von Starhemberg

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Guido Wald Rüdiger, count of Starhemberg; (Graz, 1657 – Vienna, 7 March 1737) was an Austrian military officer.

He was a cousin of Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638-1701), the famous commander of Vienna during the Turkish siege of 1683, and acted as his ADC during the siege. Guido followed his cousin, and later Prince Eugene of Savoy, in battles against the Turks.

In the War of the Spanish Succession Starhemberg fought in Italy and Spain. Between 1706 and 1708 he was the commander-in-chief of the imperial army in Hungary, since this time he led the operations against the insurgents of Francis II Rákóczi. In 1708 he was appointed Supreme commander of the Austrians in Spain.

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Together with James Stanhope he succeeded in conquering Madrid in 1710, after the victories of Almenar and Saragossa.

But in December he was forced to leave the city by the lack of support by the people of Madrid for the Habsburg pretender. After the defeats at the Battle of Brihuega and the Battle of Villaviciosa (1710), he had to pull back to Catalonia, where he was made viceroy, when Archduke Charles returned to Austria.

After the Peace of Utrecht (1713), archduke Charles, now Emperor Charles VI, ordered him to abandon Catalonia. He pulled back with his troops to Genoa on English ships.

When he died in 1737, he was Governor of Slavonia.

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Guido Rüdiger von Starhemberg (Guido Wald Rüdiger, conde von Starhemberg; Graz, 1657-Viena, 1737) Militar austríaco. Mariscal jefe de los ejércitos imperiales en suelo español durante la guerra de Sucesión (1708), consiguió, junto con Stanhope, que Carlos de Austria entrara en Madrid. Tras las derrotas de Brihuega y Villaviciosa (1710), tuvo que replegarse a Cataluña, de la que fue nombrado virrey al marchar el pretendiente. Después de la Paz de Utrecht (1713), el nuevo emperador de Alemania Carlos VI, el antiguo pretendiente al trono español, le ordenó abandonar Cataluña; se trasladó a Génova con sus fuerzas.

texto por P.L. Baldo