[Viscount] Francis Taaffe

Life
1639-1704 [4th Viscount Taaffe and 3rd Earl of Carlingford]; Austrian field-marshal; 2nd son of Theobald, [q.v.]; served with Charles, Duke of Lorraine; relief of Vienna, 1683; received by William III, 1699; governor of Nancy on reinstatement of Leopold Duke of Lorraine, 1697. ODNB

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