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Louis William of Baden-Baden

Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden, nicknamed Turkish Louis or the Shield of the Empire was the victorious imperial general of the Turkish Wars. The Turks called him the "Red King" because of his red uniform jacket which could be seen far across the battlefields.

Louis William was born on 8 April 1655, seven years after the end of the Thirty Years' War, in the Hôtel de Soissons in Paris and died on 4 January 1707 in his unfinished palace in Rastatt. His name was chosen after his grandfather, Margrave William, and his godfather, Louis XIV, the King of France. He was the son of the heir to the throne, Ferdinand Maximilian of Baden and Louise of Savoy-Carignan, whose brother, Eugene Maurice of Savoy-(Soissons)-Carignan, was the father of the famous Prince Eugene.

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