About Jean de Beck
Lived 1588 – 1648 (aged 59–60). Jean de Beck was a military officer.
Baron Jean de Beck (1588 – 30 August 1648) was a military man and governor of the Duchy of Luxembourg and of the County of Chiny.
Biography He was born "Jean Beck", the son of Paul Beck and his wife Catherine Ronck (or Ronckart), in house no. 5 (demolished in 1958) of the rue de Trèves in the Grund of Luxembourg City.
In 1619, he joined the Austrian-Habsburg army.
He fought for many years under Philip III and Philip IV as a soldier, ensign and finally as captain. Under the Spanish flag he served at Ostende, then after an interruption of ten years, from 1620 served in the Palatinate under Spinola.
Beck had only one spouse. From 1610 he was married to Katharina von Capell, who survived him by some years and likely died in the late 1650s.
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Luxembourgish soldier
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Jean de Beck was born in 1588 in Luxembourg.
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Jean de Beck died on 20 August 1648 in Arras.
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