Eugène-Hyacinthe de Lannoy, 5th Count of la Motterie

Eugéne-Hyacinthe-Marie-Joseph-Ignace de Lannoy, 5th Count of la Motterie, baron of Aix and Sombreffe (1684, Brussels – 10 September 1755) was a functionary in the Austrian Netherlands.

Family

He was the son of François-Hyacinthe de Lannoy, 4th Count of la Motterie and Baron of Sombreffe, and Anne-Françoise of Gavre. Claude de Lannoy, 1st Count of la Motterie was his great-grandfather. He was the brother in law of Dominik von Königsegg-Rothenfels, imperial ambassador. He married Lambertine du Faign, Countess of Hasselt, lady of the Starry Cross. He was succeeded by his son Chrétien de Lannoy, 6th Count of La Motterie.

Functions

• Governor of Dendermonde.[1]
• Governor of Brussels in 1737.
• Imperial lord chamberlain
• 1751–1756: Grand Marshall of the Imperial Court of Brussels.[2]
• Member of the Council of State.
• Field-Marshall, general of the Artillery of the Imperial army
• Member of the States of Brabant, as Baron of Sombreffe.[3]

Honours

• Knight of the Golden Fleece in 1744.

References

1. Comptoir-almanach ofte den almanach van het hof van ... Maria Elisabeth, aerts-hertoginne van Oostenryk, &c. voor't jaer 1730 ...
2. Placcaerten, ordonnantien, edicten, ... in dese Nederlanden uytgegeven t' sedert den jaere MDCCXXXIX ... Interpretatien, declaratien ...: Het achtste /negenste, thienste/ deel. Met Alphabetiecke tafel der materien, Volume 10
3. Relation de l'inauguration solemnelle de sa Majeste Marie Therese Reine de Hongrie et de Boheme, en qualité de Duchesse de Lothier, de Brabant, de Limbourg, et de Marquise du St. Empire. Romain ...

Belgian nobility
Preceded by François-Hyacinthe de Lannoy	5th Count of La Motterie	Succeeded by Chrétien de Lannoy