List of Belgians - Military Figures

Military Figures

  • Ambiorix – Gaulish warlord
  • Baldwin I of Jerusalem – Crusader, King of Jerusalem
  • Baldwin I of Constantinople – Crusader, first Latin Emperor
  • Jean-Pierre de Beaulieu – Belgian-born Austrian General
  • Adrian Carton de Wiart – Belgian-born British Lieutenant General
  • Charlemagne, founder of the Frankish Empire
  • Charles Martel, Duke of the Franks, stopped the Muslim expansion at Poitiers
  • Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Clovis I, King of the Franks
  • Lieutenant Colonel (ret'd) Count Henry Robert Visart de Bury et de Bocarmé C.B.E.
  • Godfrey of Bouillon – Crusader and first King of Jerusalem
  • Pepin of Herstal, Duke of the Franks
  • Pepin the Short, first Carolingian King of the Franks
  • Edgard Potier – Pilot during the World War II
  • Jean Schramme, mercenary.
  • Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly – Field Marshal

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