Adam Matthias von Trauttmansdorff

Adam Matthias von Trauttmansdorff (* 1617 in Bischofteinitz ; † November 2, 1684 ibid) was land marshal and royal governor in Bohemia.

Life

Adam Matthias, Imperial Count von and zu Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg, was the eldest son of Count Maximilian von Trauttmansdorff (1584–1650), first minister of Emperor Ferdinand III. , from his marriage to Sophie Countess Pálffy (1596–1668).

He received a proper upbringing and went on a cavalier tour to Italy, Spain and England, from which he returned in 1639. During this period he stayed in Rome in 1637, where he made a lifelong friendship with Cardinal Ernst Adalbert von Harrach from Prague, who was there on a diplomatic mission . Count Trauttmansdorff shared Swedish captivity in Prague with Cardinal Harrach in 1648. In 1663 the Cardinal married Trauttmansdorff's daughters.

After returning to Bohemia, Trauttmansdorff was appointed treasurer by Emperor Ferdinand (June 8, 1639) and in 1645 royal governor and (not hereditary) Oberstlandmarschall in Bohemia, in 1665 also a privy councilor . However, unlike his father, he did not succeed in a court career. After his father's death, he mostly lived on his estate in Bischofteinitz, in Prague and in Vienna. In February 1658 he hosted Emperor Leopold I for a week at Schloss Bischofteinitz on his way to the imperial coronation in Frankfurt , where he played an important ceremonial role as Marshal of the Bohemian Kingdom. His lifelong ambitions to receive the prestigious Order of the Golden Fleece also remained unfulfilled.

Count Trauttmansdorff was one of the richest landowners in Bohemia. From his father he inherited the Bischofteinitz estate, a house in Pilsen and two city palaces in Prague, but was still able to own the property through his own acquisitions and an advantageous marriage (1642 in Litomyšl) with Eva Johanna von , who was wealthy in South Bohemia ( Lnáře , Protivin ) Sternberg (1628–1674) expand significantly. In accordance with the last will of his father, Adam Matthias founded a Capuchin monastery in Bischofteinitz in 1650, which also became the burial place of the Trauttmansdorff family. Cardinal Harrach consecrated the monastery church in 1654.

After the death of his first wife, Count Trauttmansdorff married the much younger Maria Isabel Lobkowicz (1649–1719). From both marriages he had a total of 15 children. The eldest son Rudolf Wilhelm (1646–1689) inherited Bischofteinitz and also took over the marshal's office, which passed to Count Hermann Jacob Czernin zu Chudenitz after his death . The princely line of the family descends from him. His brother Sigismund Ludwig (1651–1707) acquired goods in Austria and founded the imperial line, which was extinguished in the 19th century.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Trauttmannsdorff, Adam Matthias . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 47th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1883, p. 66 ( digitized version ).
• Petr Mašek: Šlechtické rody v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku ; Prague, 2010
• Katrin Keller, Alessandro Catalano (ed.): The diaries and diaries of Cardinal Ernst Adalbert von Harrach (1598–1667) : Commentary & Register. Böhlau, Vienna 2010, pp. 222–223

Web links

• Trauttmansdorff, Adam Matthias (1618–1684) , in: Kaiser und Höfe. Personal database of courtiers of the Austrian Habsburgs, ed. by Mark Hengerer and Gerhard Schön