Philippe Charles d'Arenberg
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Philippe Charles François, 3rd Duke of Arenberg(1663 - 3rd Duke of Arenberg 1681, aged 18 - Battle of Slankamen
Battle of Slankamen
The Battle of Slankamen was fought near Slankamen in the Ottoman Sanjak of Syrmia on August 19, 1691 between the Ottoman Empire, and the forces of Austria and states of the Holy Roman Empire as part of the Great Turkish War.The Ottomans had suffered partial military collapse against the Austrians...

, 1691, aged 28 ) was also the 9th Duke of Aarschot
Aarschot
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. He married in 1684 Marie-Henriette d'Alcaretto, marquise of Grana
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  and Savona
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, Italy
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He was promoted to be a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
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 in 1685. As his father, the 2nd Duke
Charles Eugene, 2nd Duke of Arenberg
Charles Eugene, 2nd Duke of Arenberg , a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece since 1678, became 2nd Duke of Arenberg in 1674 on the death of his step brother Philippe François, 1st Duke of Arenberg...

, he was Grand-Bailli and Capitaine-Général of Hainaut
County of Hainaut
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. The youngest general in the imperial army at the battle of Slankamen
Battle of Slankamen
The Battle of Slankamen was fought near Slankamen in the Ottoman Sanjak of Syrmia on August 19, 1691 between the Ottoman Empire, and the forces of Austria and states of the Holy Roman Empire as part of the Great Turkish War.The Ottomans had suffered partial military collapse against the Austrians...

, (in modern-day Vojvodina
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, Serbia
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), he died from his wounds on August 19, 1691.

He was succeeded by his son, Leopold Philippe d'Arenberg
Leopold Philippe d'Arenberg
Leopold Philippe of Arenberg was the 4th Duke of Arenberg, 10th Duke of Aarschot and an Austrian Field Marshal.-Biography:...

, as the 4th Duke of Arenberg.

His daughter Marie Anne married François Egon de La Tour d'Auvergne, nephew of Turenne. Marie Anne's daughter Marie Anne Henriette Leopoldine de la Tour d'Auvergne married Count Palatine John Christian of Sulzbach
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, the son of Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach
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 and his wife Eleonore of Hesse-Rothenburg
Landgravine Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg
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Further reading

  • http://www.arenbergfoundation.eu The Arenberg archives, a family with very strong Flemish roots, quite important in Imperial Spain and later in the Holy Roman Empire, are located for the most part in Arras
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    , Brussels
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    , Cambrai
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    , Coblenz, Douai
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    , Düsseldorf
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    , Enghien
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    , Louvain
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    , Osnabrück
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    , Paris
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    , Salzburg
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     and Vienna
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