WRED2, KARL PIixLIrr, Prince of, a Bavarian field-marshal, was born at Heidel berg, April 29, 1767. Belonging to a noble family, he early obtained official employ ment, and in 1792 was assessor to the high court of Heidelberg; in 1703, was elected " civil commissary" in the palatinate, and in this latter capacity accompanied for five years the armies of Wurmser, duke Albert, and the archduke Charles, in Italy and Ger many; and frequently took a direct share in military operations. In 1799 his military career may be said to have commenced by his leading a body of Bavarian volunteers to join the archduke Charles, and for his distinguished conduct in that campaign he obtained, May 15, 1800, the grade of maj.gen. After the peace of 1800. he de. Noted much time and labor to the organization of the Bavarian army; and, when war was renewed, found himself at the head of the Bavarian contingent, well disciplined and thoroughly equipped, •fighting side by side with his former foci the French, an took a prominent part in most of the campaigns against the Aus• mans, Prussians, and Russians till 1813. But after the retreat from Russia, offended at -some real or fancied insults which had been offered to him, he returned to Munich, joined the anti-French party, which was headed by the queen and crown-prince'; and, though his intrigues were put a stop to by the victories of LUtzen and Bautzen, he soon after succeeded in bringing about the treaty of Oct. 8, 1813, by which ,Bavaria joined
the coalition against France, and, before the end of the same tronth, 'was at the head of 70,000 men. Attacked by Napoleon with an inferior force, he was, after a bloody and protracted contest, defeated at Hamm He was chosen soon after to command the fourth corps of Schwarzenberg's army, and though unsuccessful in most of his petty conflicts, contributed considerably to the successful advance on Paris. His services were rewarded by the dignities of field-marshal (March 7) and prince (June 9, 1814), and by the gift of the domain of Ellingen. On the brief renewal of the contest during the "hundred days," 1N rede was preparing to invade Lorraine, when the battle of Waterloo put an end to the strife. After this period, Wrede was employed on many important missions, and was charged with the pacification of Rhenish Bavaria during the revolution of 1830. He died at Ellingen, Dec. 12, 1838.