Antonio Carafa (general)

Antonio von Caraffa (1646 – 6 March 1693) was a General Commissary (Generalkriegskommissär) of the Imperial-Habsburg Army—the highest rank in the Austrian military hierarchy at the time.

During the Siege of Vienna (1683), he was sent by Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor to Warsaw, to urge Polish King John III Sobieski to come to the help of the city.

In this way, he was appointed royal commissioner of Transylvania, and managed to persuade Mihály Teleki and an important part of the nobility to switch to the Austrian side.

[3] He played a very important role in the conquest of Belgrade in 1688,[citation needed] and was for this rewarded with the Order of the Golden Fleece and lands in Voćin, Slavonia.

His deeds were chronicled by Giambattista Vico in De rebus gestis Antonj Caraphaei, first published in 1716 at the commission of Adriano Antonio Carafa (1696–1765).