Johann Caspar von Ampringen

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Johann Caspar von Ampringen, contemporary oil portrait
Front of a thaler from 1673 with the portrait of Johann Caspar von Ampringens

Johann Caspar von Ampringen (born January 19, 1619 , † September 9, 1684 in Breslau ) was Grand Master of the Teutonic Order . From 1682 until his death he was governor of Silesia and at the same time Duke of Freudenthal .

Life

Johann Caspar von Ampringen came from a noble family from Breisgau . His parents were Johann Christoph von Ampringen and Susanne von Landsberg. Little is known about his youth and education. After his education with the Jesuits , he is said to have been in the imperial service. In 1646 he entered the Teutonic Order, where in 1650 he was promoted to Commander of Mergentheim and in 1654 to become Commander of Würzburg . Subsequently, he obtained the positions of a councilor of the Deutschordensballei Franconia and a grand master and secret councilor.

As land commander of the Austrian Ballei , he campaigned from 1660 to secure the windy-Croatian border to protect against the Turkish wars and to establish religious settlements in this area. As a representative of his order at the imperial court in Vienna, from 1662 he was a member of the order's directorate for Archduke Karl Joseph , who was not yet of legal age and who held the office of Grand Master. In 1663 Amringen was appointed governor of the Silesian rule of Freudenthal and the Moravian rule of Eulenberg , both of which came into the possession of the Teutonic Order after the battle of the White Mountain . After the death of Archduke Karl Joseph in 1664, Ampringen was elected as his successor as Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. In 1672 he granted the rule extensive privileges. In 1673 he was given the office of governor for Hungary, which he gave up in 1679 because he was not very successful with the task at hand.

Because of his services, he was appointed governor of Silesia by the emperor on November 4, 1682. Since, according to the great state privilege of the Bohemian King Vladislav II of 1498, this office was always to be held by a Silesian prince, the minority Freudenthal was elevated to a duchy for Ambringen's lifetime and he himself was elevated to the Bohemian prince and on November 10, 1682 to the imperial prince . As Grand Master, he initiated the renovation of the spacious palace complex in Freudenthal.

Ampringen died in 1684 as the last of his family in Breslau and was buried in the religious order church in Freudenthal. He was succeeded by the Worms Bishop Ludwig Anton von der Pfalz in the office of Grand Master .

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SURNAME Ampringen, Johann Caspar von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Duke of Freudenthal, Governor of Silesia
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1619
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1684
Place of death Wroclaw