page_title: Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne
section_title: Marriage and issue
hierarchical_section_title: Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne / Marriage and issue
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Eugène Prince de Ligne (1804-1880) as president of the Belgian SenateFrançais&#160;: Portrait d'Eugène Prince de Ligne (1804-1880) en tant que président du Sénat belge, Bruxelles, Palais de la Nation
context_page_description: Charles-Joseph Lamoral, 7th Prince de Ligne in French; in German Karl-Joseph Lamoral 7. Fürst von Ligne: was a Field Marshal, inhaber of an infantry regiment, prolific writer, intellectual, member of the princely family of Ligne. He fought as a field officer during several famous battles during the Seven Years' War and briefly returned to military duty in the War of the Bavarian Succession. He performed an important diplomatic mission to Catherine the Great in 1787 and led troops against the Ottoman Empire at Belgrade in 1789. Beginning in the 1770s, he authored an impressive volume of work. After his estates in the Austrian Netherlands were lost to France during the War of the First Coalition, he lived in Vienna. All three of his sons died before him, but his wife and four daughters all outlived him. His grandson, the 8th Prince, became a Belgian statesman.
context_section_description: On 6 August 1755, in Valtice or Feldsberg, Charles-Joseph married Princess Franziska Xaveria Maria of Liechtenstein (Vienna, 27 November 1739 – Vienna, 17 May 1821), sister of Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein. The couple had seven children.
  Princess Marie Christine Leopoldine  (25 May 1757 Brussels – 13 September 1830 Teplice)
  Prince Charles Antoine Joseph Emanuel (25 September 1759 Brussels – 14 September 1792)
  Prince Francois Leopold (3 November 1764 – 6 January 1771)
  Prince Louis Eugene Marie Lamoral (7 May 1766 Brussels – 10 May 1813 Brussels)
  Prince Adalbert Xavier (26 August 1767 – 23 May 1771)
  Princess Euphemie Christine Philippine  (18 July 1773 Brussels – 30 March 1834 Vienna)
  Princess Flore Adelaide Caroline (8 November 1775 Brussels – 9 December 1851 Vienna)
  He also had two illegitimate daughters: "Adèle" (1809–1810) by Adelaide Fleury;  and another one (?) (1770–1770) by Angélique d'Hannetaire (1749–1822).
  Charles-Joseph legitimated in 1810 the illegitimate beloved daughter of his son Charles, called "Fanny-Christine" (4 January 1788 – 19 May 1867). She is called "Titine" in the diaries and letters of the family; she married Maurice O'Donnell von Tyrconnell (1780–1843).
  His grandson, Eugène, 8th Prince de Ligne (1804–1880), was a distinguished Belgian statesman, and another grandson, Count Maximilian O'Donnell von Tyrconnell (1812–1895), helped save the life of Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria in Vienna in 1853.
caption: Eugene, 8th Prince of Ligne, grandson
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