Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei whitianga - I whakaipoipo a Charles ki a Marie Jeanne o Savoy engari i muri i te whakaoranga o tana matua keke hei Duke o Lorraine i te tau 1661, ka whakarere ia i tenei marena ka hoki ki te kooti Imperial i Vienna. I tīmata tana mahi i roto i te ope Imperial i te tau 1663, ko tana mahi nui tuatahi ko Saint Gotthard
I te tau 1664, i mahi ai ia i raro i te rangatira o Imperial, Raimondo Montecuccoli.