Eugene Jean, Count of Soissons

In the same year 1729, the King of Sardinia Victor Amadeus II granted him the title of knight of the Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation, the highest Savoy distinction.

[1] In 1731, at the instigation of his grand-uncle, Prince Eugene of Savoy, a famous general and eminent personality in the imperial court, he was made, like his father before him, knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece by the Emperor Charles VI.

Matrimonial agreements were signed in Vienna, where the prince resided, on 2 May 1732, and, in the month of October, the eighteen-year-old betrothed visited Massa to pay homage to his little fiancée and future mother-in-law.

The marriage, however, could not take place due to the young count's premature death in Mannheim, where he was serving the emperor in the military, on 23 November 1734.

[5] In 1772, upon the death of Eugene Jean's mother, the duchy of Troppau returned to the possession of the princes of Liechtenstein, in the person of Franz Joseph I.