Count Charles Bucquoy
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Charles Bonaventure de Longueval Count of Bucquoy |
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Portrait by Peter Paul Rubens.
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 Spain Holy Roman Empire
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| Rank | Colonel (1597) General (1614) |
| Commands held | General of the Artillery of the Army of Flanders Commander-in-chief of the Imperial army |
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| Awards | Order of the Golden Fleece (1613) |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Maddalena Biglia |
| Relations | Charles Albert (son) |
Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy (Czech Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, Spanish Carlos Buenaventura de Longueval, Conde de Bucquoy, full name in French Charles Bonaventure de Longueval comte de Bucquoy, German: Karl Bonaventura Graf von Buquoy) (Arras, 9 January 1571 – Nové Zámky, 10 July 1621) was a military commander who fought for the Spanish Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War and for the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
Bucquoy was born in Arras on 9 January 1571. He began serving in Spanish forces in the Low Countries as a teenager, and was a colonel at the age of 26. He fought in the Battle of Nieuwpoort (1600), the Siege of Ostend (1601–1604) and distinguished himself as General of the Artillery in the Frisian campaigns of Ambrosio Spinola. In 1606 he married Maria Maddalena Biglia, daughter of a Milanese nobleman in the entourage of the Archduke Albert and in 1607 they had a son named Charles Albert.
In 1610 he was ambassador extraordinary to France, to convey the condolences of Archdukes Albert and Isabella on the murder of Henry IV of France.
In 1613 he became a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece. As a mark of special favour the commandery in the Order of Calatrava that he had to renounce upon entering the Golden Fleece, was transferred to his son. That year also saw his appointment as Grand Bailiff (or governor) of the County of Hainaut.
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