Jacques-Louis Comte de Noyelles

Jacques-Louis, Comte de Noyelles (c. 1655 – Barcelona,11 April 1708) was a Walloon military officer in the service of the Dutch Republic between 1672 and 1708.

[3][c] Jacques-Louis received the county of Fallais, his grandmother's fief, from his father in 1686, despite the fact that by that time it had been auctioned off for debts on the orders of the feudal court of the Duchy of Brabant in the Spanish Netherlands.

But at the urging of the governor-general in Brussels the States General of the Netherlands decided on 16 January 1692 to invalidate the order of the feudal court in The Hague, and give the county back to the person who had bought it at auction in 1686.

[8] At the beginning of the War of the Grand Alliance his regiment was first part of the army led by Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck in the Spring of 1689.

Later that year his regiment was placed at the disposal of the Army of Flanders under Francisco Antonio de Agurto, 1st Marquess of Gastañaga.

[15] At the start of the War of Spanish Succession he captured Stevensweert, after having taken part in the Siege of Venlo (1702), and the next year Huy.

[19] On the eve of the Battle of Elixheim, 17 July 1705, Dutch troops, consisting of 22 battalions and 30 squadrons, under Noyelles attacked the castle of Wangen that protected a bridge across the Gete river and a part of the Lines of Brabant.

The attack on the castle itself was to be carried out by the left column, at a stone bridge over the Geete, close to the village of Nederhespen.

[22] In 1706 he was sent to Catalonia to command the Dutch troops in Spain during the War of Spanish Succession as the replacement of general Fagel.

[j] After the disappointing events of 1707, especially the devastating losses during the Battle of Almansa[25] he asked for his recall, but that didn't arrive in time.