Alexandre Charles Joseph Ghislain Count d'Aubremé (also Alexander Carel Joseph Gislain) (Brussels, baptised 17 June 1773 – Aachen, 13 February 1835) was a Southern Netherlands general in the service consecutively of the First French Republic, the Batavian Republic, the Kingdom of Holland, the First French Empire, the Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands, and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
[1] D'Aubremé entered the service of the First French Republic as a second lieutenant in the 2nd regiment of Belgians, which was part of the Armée du Nord.
[2] After the annexation of that Kingdom by the First French Empire in 1810 he served in Napoleon's Grande Armée where he became colonel commanding the 136th regiment of the line.
Napoleon gave him 42 knight's crosses of the Légion d'Honneur to distribute as he saw fit among his men which he did, without keeping one for himself.
He was made Commissioner-General (Minister) of the War Department on 5 February 1819, which office he held until 15 June 1826, when he was succeeded by Prince Frederick of the Netherlands.
During the Belgian Revolution in 1830 d'Aubremé lived in Brussels where he served in the general staff of the army.
In the first days of the revolution he was asked to lead mixed military and civilian patrols to keep order as he was seen as of a neutral disposition.