Friedrich August Graf von Rutowski
| Frederick Augustus | |
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| Count Rutkowsky | |
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| Born |
19 June 1702 Warsaw/Dresden |
| Died | 16 March 1764 (aged 61) Pillnitz |
| Spouse | Princess Ludovika Amalie Lubomirska |
| Issue | August Joseph, Count Rutowsky |
| House | House of Wettin |
| Father | Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony |
| Mother | Fatima (Maria Anna of Spiegel) |
Frederick Augustus, Count Rutowsky (also written Rutowski) (Warsaw/Dresden [?], 19 June 1702 – Pillnitz, 16 March 1764), was a Saxon Field Marshal who commanded Saxon forces in the Siege of Pirna during the Seven Years' War.
He was an illegitimate son of August the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, by the Turk Fatima (or Fatime), who was captured during the Battle of Buda by Hans Adam von Schöning. After she became the King's mistress, she was christened Maria Anna and moved to the Dresden court.
The child got the name of his father, but shortly after the birth Fatima was married at the instigation of Augustus to his chamberman Johann Georg of Spiegel. Frederick Augustus moved to the estates of the Spiegel Family, but his father cared about his education, which led him among other things to go to Paris, where he found his half-sister Anna Karolina (the later countess Orzelska) and bring her to Dresden.
Fatima, despite her marriage, remained a mistress of Augustus. In 1706, she gave birth to the King's second child, a daughter, called Maria Anna Katharina. However, soon Frederick Augustus and his sister became orphans: Johann Georg of Spiegel died in 1715 and their mother Fatima five years later.
Augustus the Strong took the guardianship of the children, but he only recognized and legitimized them both in 1724. Shortly after, he raised both, as his right of King of Poland, with the Polish title of Count Rutowski and Countess Rutowska. The coat of arms awarded to them shows a Saxon rhombus wreath as well as a Polish White Eagle.
On 8 October 1724 Frederick August, now Count Rutowski, obtained of his father the highest decoration of the Wettin lands, the Order of the White Eagle, which gave him the rank of an Oberst of the Saxon Army.
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