!!!Mercy, Claudius Florimund Graf

b. Longwy (France), 1666, 
d. near Parma (Italy), June 29, 1734, killed in action, Field 
Marshal; adoptive father of Count Florimund  Mercy d´Argenteau. 
From 1682 in Austrian service, distinguished himself in the War of the 
Spanish Succession, in the War of the Polish Succession and in the 
Turkish war. From 1720 Governor of Temesvár, which he 
successfully colonised on behalf of Prince  Eugène.

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