With the consent of Emperor Maximilian II, the Promnitz dynasty and their Schaffgotsch successors ruled the Duchy of Bielsko as a Bohemian state country ; acquired by the Austrian chancellor Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Haugwitz in 1752, the ducal status was finally confirmed by Empress Maria Theresa in 1754.

Christian August Heinrich Kurt Graf von Haugwitz ( 11 June 1752 – 1832 ) was a German statesman, best known for serving as Foreign Minister of Prussia during the Napoleonic Wars.

Haugwitz was born at Peucke near Oels, a member of the Silesian ( Protestant ) branch of the ancient family of Haugwitz, of which the Catholic branch was established in Moravia.

Haugwitz, who had attended the young Emperor Francis II at his coronation and been present at the conferences held at Mainz to consider the attitude of the German powers towards the French Revolution, was opposed to the attitude of the French émigrés and to any interference in the internal affairs of France.

It was in these circumstances that Haugwitz entered on the negotiations that resulted in the subsidy treaty between Great Britain and Prussia, and Great Britain and the Netherlands, signed at the Hague on 19 April 1794.

Haugwitz, however, was not the man to direct a strong and aggressive policy ; the failure of Prussia to make any effective use of the money supplied broke the patience of Pitt, and in October the denunciation by Great Britain of the Hague treaty broke the last tie that bound Prussia to the Coalition.

The Peace of Basel on 5 April 1795, was mainly due to the influence of Haugwitz.

In his retirement Haugwitz was still consulted, and he used all his influence against Hardenberg's policy of a rapprochement with France.

Haugwitz was now once more appointed foreign minister, as Hardenberg's colleague, and it was he who was charged to carry to Napoleon the Prussian ultimatum which was the outcome of the visit of the Tsar Alexander I to Berlin in November.

Haugwitz remained head of the Prussian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but the course of Prussian policy was beyond his power to control.

John George III, the late Elector had tried to separate the lovers, perhaps because he was aware of a close blood relationship between them — for Magdalena Sybilla may have been his own illegitimate daughter by Ursula Margarethe of Haugwitz, and therefore John George IV's half-sister.

Maria Theresa promulgated financial and educational reforms, with the assistance of Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Haugwitz and Gottfried van Swieten, promoted commerce and the development of agriculture, and reorganised Austria's ramshackle military, all of which strengthened Austria's international standing.

In 1793 Hardenberg had struck up a friendship with Count Haugwitz, the influential minister for foreign affairs, and when in 1803 the latter went away on leave ( August – October ) he appointed Hardenberg his locum tenens.

Napoleon had just occupied Hanover, and Haugwitz had urged upon the king the necessity for strong measures and the expediency of a Russian alliance ; During his absence, however, the king's irresolution continued ; he clung to the policy of neutrality which had so far seemed to have served Prussia so well ; and Hardenberg contented himself with adapting himself to the royal will.

He watched with interest the Prussian military preparations, and, at the invitation of Count Haugwitz, he went at the outset of the campaign to the Prussian headquarters at Erfurt, where he drafted the king's proclamation and his letter to Napoleon.

By the time Haugwitz returned, the unyielding attitude of Napoleon had caused the king to make advances to Russia ; but the mutual declarations of the 3rd and 25th of May 1804 only pledged the two powers to take up arms in the event of a French attack upon Prussia or of further aggressions in North Germany.

No guarantee of their maintenance had been inserted in the Basel treaty ; but Haugwitz and the king hoped to preserve them by establishing the armed neutrality of northern Germany and securing its recognition by the French Republic.

Haugwitz, who had continued to enjoy the confidence of the new king, Frederick William III, recognized this fact, and urged his master to join the new Second Coalition in 1798.

* Christian August Heinrich Kurt Graf von Haugwitz ( 1752, Silesia-1832 ), Prussian statesman

Finally, Haugwitz, unable to persuade the cabinet to a more vigorous policy, resigned, and on April 14, 1804, Hardenberg succeeded him as foreign minister.

* Prince György Festetics de Tolna ( 4 September 1882, Baden-Baden – 4 August 1941, Keszthely ); who married to Countess Marie Franziska von Haugwitz.

Christian Graf von Haugwitz.

However, the king clung to the illusion of neutrality, and Haugwitz allowed himself to be made the instrument of a policy of which he increasingly disapproved.

On the 15th of December, instead of delivering an ultimatum, Haugwitz signed the Treaty of Schönbrunn which gave Hanover to Prussia in return for Ansbach, Cleves and Neuenburg.

In February 1806 Haugwitz went to Paris to ratify the Treaty of Schönbrunn and to attempt to secure some modifications in favour of Prussia.

Alexios gathered the money by plundering imperial tombs at the church of the Holy Apostles, though Henry's death in September 1197 meant the gold was never despatched.

On 5 August, Leander was despatched to Cadiz with messages for Earl St. Vincent carried by Captain Edward Berry.

Efficient electrical transmission meant in turn that electricity could be generated at centralised power stations, where it benefited from economies of scale, and then be despatched relatively long distances to where it was needed.

He was sent from Italy to England by Pope Gregory the Great, on a mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism, probably arriving with the second group of missionaries despatched in 601.

These decrees were communicated to Calixtus II, who despatched the legate Lambert to assist at the synod that had been convoked at Worms, where, on 23 September 1122, the agreement known as the Concordat of Worms was concluded.

In 1758 Maskelyne was admitted to the Royal Society, which in 1761 despatched him to the island of St. Helena to observe the transit of Venus.

Nevertheless, as a result of the gossip, he was temporarily dismissed from court and despatched to Tangier.

According to the account in the Liber Pontificalis, Symmachus bestowed the See on Laurentius " guided by sympathy ", but the " Laurentian Fragment " states that Laurentius " was severely threatened and cajoled, and forcibly despatched " to Nuceria.

Bertha of Sulzbach, Conrad's sister-in-law, was chosen and despatched to Byzantium.

The severed head of Coligny was apparently despatched to Pope Gregory XIII, though it got no further than Lyons, and Pope Gregory XIII sent the king a Golden Rose.

To illustrate the rapidity with which the whole case was despatched ; and the absolute indifference " whether there was justice done or not ," P. A.

Herbert brother had already set up as a planter in Natal, South Africa, so Cecil was despatched on a sailing vessel to join Herbert in Natal.

Neoclassical fashion for men was far more problemmatic, and never really took off other than for hair, where it played an important role in the shorter styles that finally despatched the use of wigs, and then white hair-powder, for younger men.

Due to disrupted supplies at Christchurch Airport an RNZAF fuel tanker was also despatched from Ohakea Air Base to supply these aircraft.

Jellicoe despatched a message advising Tyrwhitt that he should expect reinforcements, but this was delayed at Harwich and never received.

He voted for the death of King Louis XVI, and as a member of the Committees of National Defence and of Public Safety he was despatched in October 1793 to Brittany, where he established the local version of the Reign of Terror.

The declaration, however ( actually several letters, addressed to Monck, the Houses of Parliament, and the City of London ), was despatched as soon as Charles had crossed the Dutch border, and was dated 4 April ( OS )/ 14 April ( NS ).

The military government, which was now named the Committee of Safety, despatched a force hoping that pro army members would open the gates.

This advice was rejected because of fear of another revolution in Paris, and a delegation to organize resistance in the provinces was despatched to Tours, but when this was seen to be ineffective, Gambetta himself ( 7 October ) left Paris in a hot air balloon – the " Armand-Barbès " – and upon arriving at Tours took control as minister of the interior and of war.

All three armies would soon be reinforced: the British Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, the Duke of Newcastle, promised Raglan that the 3rd, 62nd, and 90th Regiments, would be despatched to the Crimea with a third battery train ; Canrobert, meanwhile, was promised an additional three divisions of infantry from France.