Ferdinand Gobert von Aspremont-Lynden

Lynden became an officer in the service of the Holy Roman Empire and its Habsburg emperor in Vienna.

Taking advantage of the weakness on the eastern border of the Holy Roman Empire, because of the French invasion on the Rhine during the Nine Years' War, the Ottomans returned to besiege Belgrade in 1690.

The Ottomans were led by Grand Vizier Köprülüzade Fazıl Mustafa Pasha and succeeded in detonating the citadel's powder magazine.

The Ottomans took Belgrade, but several hundred soldiers escaped by swimming across the Danube, including Lynden and Duke Charles Eugène de Croÿ, another nobleman of the Southern Netherlands.

Nevertheless, after the final victory in the Great Turkish War, Emperor Leopold I granted Lynden the rank of General, and later Feldmarschall-leutnant of the Holy Roman Empire for his services in the Great Turkish War.