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Thomas-Emmanuel de Savoie
4th Comte de Soissons
(1687–1729)

Other names: Thomas-Emmanuel-Amedée

Biographical

4th Comte de Soissons 1702–29†
3rd Duc de Carignan 1702 –1729†
Adel, Lower Austria 1718
Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece 1712 [Austria]

Governor of Antwerp
Colonel in the Cuirassiers Regiment
Lieutenant maréchal de camp in the Imperial army

Thomas' wife, Princess Maria Theresa of Liechtenstein, brought with her, as part of her dowry, the duchy of Troppau. Thomas followed Prince Eugen to Italy who had been sent by Austria to assist Savoy in the war of succession with Spain, and was wounded at Turin in 1706, but continued in combat until the end of the war. In 1718, he was admitted into the Austrian nobility. He died from smallpox at the age of forty-three.

Place of marriage: Vienna
Place of death: Vienna

Son of Louis-Thomas de Savoie-Soissons and Uranie de la Cropte de Beauvais. He married Princess Maria Theresa von Liechtenstein in 1713, and had issue.

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