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Isaac Quirin von Forcade de Biaix

1704 – 1775

Prussian colonel

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Lived 1704 – 1775 (aged 70–71). Isaac Quirin von Forcade de Biaix was a military personnel.

title = Hofmarschall aka Isaac von Forcade, aka Peter Isaac von Forcade, aka Isaak von Forcade (c. 1703, As with his uncle and first cousin, there is no evidence that he was ever a Marquis. Biaix was never, at any time in its history, a marquisate, but instead a noble manor in Pau (see also Manorialism).

Military career Historical sources related to the research of noble families in France erroneously state that he was a major general, for a niece, Elizabeth-Christine de Casamajor, at Saint-Martin's church in Pau, France. In reality, his first cousin, Friedrich Wilhelm Quirin von Forcade de Biaix was the Prussian major general in 1748.

Early Military Career in Prussia 1722, since 10 November 1742, is renamed as The Prince of Prussia Regiment.

He fought with his unit at the Siege of Prague (2–18 September 1744), Beraun (6 September 1744), Selmitz (19 November 1744), Prague (25 November 1744), and the Battle of Hohenfriedberg (4 June 1745).

28 August 1745, promoted to major and :de:Obristwachtmeister, in the 18th Prussian Infantry Regiment, since 10 November 1742 under the command of Prince Augustus William of Prussia.

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.

Parents

Isaac de Forcade, Seigneur de Biaix, (* September 1659, Biaix in Pau, Béarn; bap. 13 September 1659, Morlaàs, Béarn;

Kurt von Priesdorff, in his ten volume work :de:Soldatisches Führertum, of the Order of Saint John from the von Borck family in 1731 for 28,000 Reichsthaler by King Frederick William I of Prussia with them. Gollin was a farming village, a dependency of Barskewitz The 1 January 1862 directory of the Pomeranian Knighthood shows that the property was jointly owned by the Countess von Itzenplitz in Berlin and her husband, a von Meding, the retired Oberpräsident of the Geheimrat to the King of Prussia.

Children An entry in the evangelical parish register for St. Jacob's church in Stettin, dated only as between Advent 1760 (30 November 1760) and Advent 1761 (29 November 1761), states that an "…unmarried noble daughter of Colonel Forcade, age 27 years…" was buried.

His marriage with Anna Elisabeth Cantenius is said to have been childless, thus extinguishing his branch of the family. Skanderborg, Denmark; † 10 July 1821), married a Canon in Havelberg Friedrich von Itzenplitz, Erbherr auf Gross- und Klein-Behnitz, Jerchel (1740-1772).

Other Family Uncle: Jean de Forcade de Biaix (1663-1729), was a Royal Prussian Lieutenant General. (1698-1765), was a Royal Prussian Lieutenant General and one of King Frederick the Great's most active and most treasured officers. He was Regimentschef of the 23rd Prussian Infantry Regiment, recipient of the Kingdom of Prussia's highest military order of merit, the Pour le Mérite, Canon of Havelberg, Castellan of Neuenrade in the County of Mark, Lord Seneschal of Zinna, President of the prestigious Ober-Collegium Sanitatis in Berlin and Lieutenant Governor of Breslau.

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1704, Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
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Who was Isaac Quirin von Forcade de Biaix?

Prussian colonel

When was Isaac Quirin von Forcade de Biaix born?

Isaac Quirin von Forcade de Biaix was born in 1704 in Béarn, France, Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

When did Isaac Quirin von Forcade de Biaix die?

Isaac Quirin von Forcade de Biaix died on 21 January 1775 in Brandenburg, Potsdam.

What was Isaac Quirin von Forcade de Biaix's occupation?

Isaac Quirin von Forcade de Biaix was a military personnel.

Sources & further reading

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· Wikidata: Q19282372

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