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Isaac von Forcade de Biaix, aka Isaac Quirin von Forcade, Marquis de Biaix, aka Isaac von Forcade (* ca. 1702, Berlin; † 21 January 1775, Potsdam), was a Royal Prussian Lieutenant Colonel and Hofmarschall with the 18th Prussian Infantry Regiment, recipient of Prussia's highest military order of merit for heroism, Knight of the Order of Pour le Merite, the son of a Royal Prussian Lieutenant General, who was an early Huguenot immigrant to Brandenburg-Prussia and a descendent of the noble family of Forcade.
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Military career
Historical sources related to the research of noble families in France incorrectly state that he was a Major General, as does the 25 July 1748 Catholic baptismal record for a niece, Elizabeth-Christine de Casamajor, at Saint-Martin's church in Pau.
Little is known about his military career. What is known from historical sources is:
In all, he served the Royal house for 52 years, during which time he fought with honor in the First Silesian War, the Second Silesian War and the Seven Years' War.
Coat of Arms
The family motto of the Prussian branch is "In Virtute Pertinax".
Coat of Arms: An escutcheon with the field divided into four parts. Left half: argent tincture, a gules lion holding a sinople eradicated oak tree between its paws; azure tincture charged with three or mullets; Right half: a gules castle with three towers on an argent tincture; sinople tincture charged with three argent roses below it. A Grafenkrone (Count's coronet) as helmut on top of the escutcheon, crested with a or fleur-de-lis. Two or lions supporting the escutcheon. Motto: "In Virtute Pertinax".
Heraldic Symbolism: The lion symbolizes courage; the eradicated oak tree symbolizes strength and endurance; the towers are symbols of defense and of individual fortitude; the mullets (5-star) symbolizes divine quality bestowed by god; the rose is a symbol of hope and joy; the fleur-de-lis is the floral emblem of France; the coronet is a symbol of victory, sovereignty and empire. A Count's coronet to demonstrate rank and because the family originally served the counts of Foix and Bearn during the English Wars in the Middle Ages.
Parents
Jean de Forcade de Biaix (1663-1729), was a Royal Prussian Lieutenant General. He was the Regimentschef of the 23rd Prussian Infantry Regiment, Commandant of the Royal Residence in Berlin, Gouverneur militaire of Berlin and Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle.
He married the Baroness Juliane von Honstedt, from the noble house of Erdeborn, on 15 April 1697. She was the daughter of Major General Quirin, Erbherr (Allod) von Honstedt (see also Hohnstedt), Herr of Sulzau, Weikenburg and Erdeborn, and his wife Maria Magdalena Streiff von Lowenstein, of Falkenau, Diedenhosten and Bacour.
Marriages
Isaac Quirin von Forcade de Biaix married before 1731 with Anna Elisabeth Cantenius. A court in Sonnenburg ruled on 24 January 1765, that as her heir, the Lordship of her property in Gollin (present day Golina), a farming village that was a dependency of Barskewitz Manor (present day Barzkowice), both suburbs of present day Gmina Stargard Szczecinski in Stargard County, passed to him.
He later remarried with Katharina von Eickstedt, who survived him. His testament dated 7 April 1772 did not name any natural male children as heirs.
Children
From his first marriage, there appears to have been one daughter, who married a Friedrich von Itzenplitz.