During the War of the Austrian Succession in 1743, he was Commandander-in-Chief of the Imperial and Piedmontese armies in Italy.
Born Stefan Ihnat, he was raised on a farm in Lynden, Ontario.
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The bride was Marie Louise d'Aspremont (1652–1692), the eighteen-year-old daughter of Charles d'Aspremont-Lynden, Count of Rekem, and Marie Françoise de Mailly.
Baroness Van Lynden-Leijten was Dutch ambassador to Bulgaria from 2001 to 2005 and ambassador to the Vatican from 2009 to 2010.
Member of an ancient Dutch noble family, Lynden van Sandenburg was a baron throughout his life, but styled Graaf in 1882, with the right of succession to this title for al his descendents.