Charles Eugène de Croÿ was a German and Russian Field Marshal and nobleman from the French noble House of Croÿ.
19th-century drawing of de Croÿ's mummy at St. Nicholas Church, Tallinn.
The House of Croÿ is a family of European mediatized nobility, which held a seat in the Imperial Diet from 1486, and was elevated to the rank of Princes of the Holy Roman Empire in 1594. In 1533 they became Dukes of Arschot and in 1598 Dukes of Croy in France. In 1913, the family had branches in Belgium, France, Austria and Prussia.
Chimay Castle.
Antoine I le Grand, as represented on a miniature (ca. 1390)
Arms of Philippe I de Croÿ, detail of Rogier's diptych (ca. 1460)
Portrait of Philippe I de Croÿ, by Rogier van der Weyden