Early Life
His father, Count Peter von Lacy, was a Russian Field Marshal, who belonged to an Irish family, and had followed the fortunes of the exiled James II. Franz Moritz was born in St Petersburg and was educated in Germany for a military career, and entered the Austrian service. He served in Italy, Bohemia, Silesia and the Netherlands during the War of the Austrian Succession, was twice wounded, and by the end of the war was a lieutenant-colonel. At the age of twenty-five he became full colonel and chief of an infantry regiment.
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