Friedrich Wilhelm Quirin von Forcade de Biaix
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His Excellency Lieutenant General, Sir Friedrich Wilhelm Quirin von Forcade de Biaix |
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circa 1758
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Quirin Frideric de Forcade 11 January 1699 Berlin, Brandenburg |
| Died |
23 March 1765 Berlin, Brandenburg |
| Cause of death | Stroke |
| Burial place |
Family vault in the crypts under the , Berlin (before 1949) Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf (after 1949) |
| Title | Domherr of Havelberg Drost in Neuenrade Amtshauptmann of Zinna President of the Ober-Collegium Sanitatis Lieutenant governor of Breslau |
| Spouse(s) | Marie de Montolieu, Baroness de Saint-Hippolyte (1727) |
| Children | 23, of which 4 stillborn, most notably: Friedrich Wilhelm von Forcade de Biaix Charlotte Sophie Therese Marthe von Forcade Georg Friedrich Wilhelm von Forcade de Biaix Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand Leopold von Forcade de Biaix |
| Parent(s) | His Excellency, Lieutenant General Sir Jean de Forcade de Biaix and Juliane Freiin von Hoenstedt |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |
 Prussia
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| Service/ |
Prussian Army |
| Rank | Lieutenant General |
| Unit | 1st White Fusilier Guards, under the 1st Prussian Infantry Regiment (1713-1721) 23rd Prussian Infantry Regiment (1721-1757) |
| Commands held | 23rd Prussian Infantry Regiment (14 July 1748) Commandant of Berlin (14 July 1748) Adjutant General to King Frederick the Great (24 December 1756) Prussian Infantry at the Battle of Breslau (16 February 1757) |
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Knight of the Order of Pour le Mérite Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle |
| Memorials | Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great, north facing commemorative plaque |
Friedrich Wilhelm Quirin von Forcade de Biaix, baptized Quirin Frideric de Forcade, aka Friedrich Quirin von Forcade, aka Frédéric Quérin de Forcade (* 11 January 1699,Berlin; † 23 March 1765, Berlin) was a Royal Prussian Lieutenant General, the second son of a Royal Prussian Lieutenant General, an early Huguenot immigrant to Brandenburg-Prussia and a descendent of the noble family of Forcade. He was one of King Frederick the Great's most active and most treasured officers. Three times wounded and once left for dead on the battlefield, he bathed the Forcade de Biaix name in glory. Together with his wife, he fathered 23 children.
He was Regimentschef of the 23rd Prussian Infantry Regiment, recipient of the Kingdom of Prussia's highest military order of merit for heroism, Knight of the Order of Pour le Mérite,Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle,Canon (German: Domherr) of Havelberg,Castellan (German: Drost) in Neuenrade in the County of Mark,Lord Seneschal (German: Amtshauptmann) of Zinna, President of the Ober-Collegium Sanitatis in Berlin and Lieutenant governor of Breslau.
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