OVAL SEAL OF THE COLONEL BARON CORNEBIZE, WITH... Lot 23

OVAL SEAL OF THE COLONEL BARON CORNEBIZE, WITH ARMS. In silver. Blackened turned wood handle. Height : 74mm. B.E. 1st Empire period.coat of arms : Azure the lion rampant with fox tail, holding in its front paws a laurel scroll, all Or, supported by a champagne of the third of the shield Gules sign of knights Louis Jean Baptiste CORNEBIZE (or CORNEBISE) (1767-1846) He entered the service on September 8, 1792 in the 6th Battalion of Yonne Volunteers where he was elected captain on the 11th of the same month. He fought in the campaigns of 1792 in the Ardennes army, 1793 in the army of the North, and from year II to year V in the army of Sambre-et-Meuse, where he distinguished himself at Wurtzbourg on 17 fructidor year IV (3 September 1796). He then took part in the campaigns from Year VI to Year VIII in the Rhine army and the Gallo-Batavian army, where he distinguished himself and was wounded at Alkmaar on 24 Fructidor Year VII (10 September 1799) and in front of Nuremberg on 27 Frimaire Year IX (18 December 1800). He was transferred with his half-brigade to the 24th Regiment of Line Infantry at the reorganization of the year XII, and was on the sea during the campaigns from this year to the year XIV, on board the Alexandre and the Impérial. Made a member of the Legion of Honour on the 25th of Prairial, Year XII (14th June 1804), he took part in the 1806 and 1807 campaigns in Prussia and Poland with the Grande Armée, where he was wounded at Eylau on the 8th February 1807. His bravery earned him a promotion to chief of battalion on 3 March 1807. He was promoted to the 47th Regiment of Line Infantry on the 10th November 1807, and the following year he left for Spain, where he served until 1811 with the armies of Spain and Portugal, and where he was promoted to the rank of Knight of the Empire on the 2nd September 1810. Promoted to major of the 116th Regiment of Line Infantry on the 20th July 1811 and made an officer of the Legion of Honour on the 26th August 1811, he was appointed colonel of the 16th Regiment of Line Infantry on the 16th July 1813 and served with his regiment in the campaigns of 1813 in Saxony and 1814 in France, where he was made a commander of the Legion of Honour on the 12th March 1814. He retired with the rank of honorary field marshal on 14 December 1825. He died on 18 June 1846 in Paris.