Anna Sylvia Caretto

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Anna Sylvia Katharina Caretto di Millesimo , also Anna Sylvia Katharina Carretto von Millesimo (* 1605 or 1606 in Prague , † February 26, 1664 in Regensburg ) was a Bohemian noblewoman. She was by birthright Margravine of Savona and Countess of Millesimo . Anna Sylvia Caretto was married to Hermann Czernin von Chudenitz . A few years after his death, she married the Reich Field Marshal Leopold Wilhelm von Baden .

Life

Anna Sylvia Caretto was the daughter of Stefano (Štěpán) (I.) Count Caretto di Millesimo and Magdalena Kostomlatská z Vřesovic († 1639 in Dresden ). Her first marriage was on April 18, 1633 with Hermann Czernin von Chudenitz († March 7, 1651). She married Margrave Leopold Wilhelm von Baden, who was 20 years younger than her and the step-nephew of her friend Margaretha Anna von Oettingen-Baldern, in 1659. She thus became Margravine of Baden and Hochberg . The marriage remained childless.

Sylvia Caretto is considered to be an important Bohemian nobleman of her time. Together with Margaretha Anna von Oettingen-Baldern (the stepmother of Prince Archbishop Guidobald von Thun ) she went on a pilgrimage to Rome. Caretto was one of the ladies with whom Empress Eleonora II regularly played cards. From 1662 she was a member of the order of women " Slaves of Virtue " founded by the Empress widow . In Prague she belonged to the closer circle of friends of Cardinal Ernst Adalbert von Harrach , who mentions her many times in his diaries.

Caretto acquired the Kuttomir estate in 1648 , Dubkowitz with Augezd in 1650 ( Dobkovičky with Újezd , today districts of Velemín ), and in 1651 Kamaik . In 1654 she confirmed the urban privileges of the place Flöhau, which belonged to her rule . On May 18, 1655 she acquired the Knöschitz estate (today: Kněžice , district of Podbořany ) from Maximilian von Martinitz . Finally in 1655 she bought the Lobositz estate with the Sulowitz estate ( Sulejovice ) from Karl Ferdinand von Waldstein . In 1661 she was able to acquire the Gradlitz dominion from Piccolomini's widow Maria Benigna , which she had to sell in order to pay off her husband's debts. In the administration of her property she was considered an “active, assertive and administratively gifted woman” who “actively took care of the completely neglected and decrepit dominion” in Lobositz, including agricultural details right up to the procurement of the ox herds from Hungary, which had been decimated by the Thirty Years War intervention.

"It is remarkable, not only that she found the courage to acquire such devastated land, but that she asserted herself so successfully even in these sad times and so surely knew how to take the first steps out of the general débacle."

- Wilhelm von Medinger : Economic history of the domain Lobositz. 1903

At the time of her death, she was mistress of Lobositz, Kost , Kamik , Augest, Wrschowitz , Sedschitz ( Sedčice ) and Gradlitz, as the inscription on her tombstone says. According to the will, her goods went to Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden-Baden ("Türkenlouis", nephew of her second husband). The margraviate of Baden then held the property in Bohemia for more than 100 years. In her will, Anna Sylvia Caretto bequeathed one hundred thousand Rhenish guilders to her brother Carl Leopold di Millesimo as entails .

She died in Regensburg in 1664 while traveling from Bohemia to Baden. She was buried in the Sigismund Chapel of St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague next to her first husband. Your correspondence with Hermann Czernin von Chudenitz has been published.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Karl Wißgrill : scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility from the lords 'and knights' ranks from the 11th century up to the present day. , Volume 2, Vienna, 1795, p. 176
  2. ↑ a b Imprint of her grave inscription in: Jaroslaus Schaller : Description of the royal capital and residence city of Prague together with all the interesting sights contained therein. First volume. The city of Hradschin, or the IVth main district of Prague. Prague, 1794, p. 206, no.67
  3. ↑ a b c Roswitha Juffinger: Catalog for the exhibition Prince Archbishop Guidobald Graf von Thun 1654 - 1668 - A client for the future: November 15, 2008 - February 8, 2009. , Salzburger Residenzgalerie, 2008, p. 76
  4. ↑ Katrin Keller and Alessandro Catalano (eds.): The diaries and diaries of Cardinal Ernst Adalbert von Harrach (1598 - 1667): Diarium 1629 - 1646 , Volume 1, Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2010, p. 137 and entry in the register , p. 301 , ISBN 978-3-205-78461-6
  5. ↑ a b The Kingdom of Bohemia: Bd. Leitmeritzer Kreis. . JG Calve, 1833, p. 92
  6. ^ Wenzel Rott: The political district Podersam, judicial districts Podersam and Jechnitz . District teachers' association Podersam, 1902, p. 290
  7. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer: The Kingdom of Bohemia: Bd. Saazer Kreis. JG Calve, 1846, p. 247
  8. ^ Arnold Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Weyhe: Octavio Piccolomini as Duke of Amalfi: Knight of the Golden Fleece Steinhauser & Korb, 1871, p. 39
  9. ↑ Werner Berg: The division of the management: Origins of industrial management in the agricultural estates of Europe. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht. 1999, p. 60
  10. ^ A b Wilhelm von Medinger: Economic history of the domain Lobositz. Vienna, CW Stern. 1903, p. 41
  11. ^ Wilhelm von Medinger: Economic history of the domain Lobositz. Vienna, CW Stern. 1903, p. 107
  12. ^ Mathias Kunz: Between Vienna, Versailles and Berlin: Scope for action and structures of Baden diplomacy in the Ancien Régime. Dissertation. University of Heidelberg, 2009. p. 82, note 149.
  13. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kmeschke: New General German nobility lexicon . 1865, p. 296
  14. ↑ Jan Florián Hammerschmid: Sacra Metropolitana Ecclesia di Viti. Handwriting. around 1732, quoted in part in: Anton Podlaha: Vnitřek chrámu sv. Vita v Praze ve druhé polovici století XVII. a ve století X III. , Památky archaeologické Volume XXII, Česká akademie věd a umění, 1908, p. 82
personal data
SURNAME Caretto, Anna Sylvia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caretto, Anna Sylvia Katharina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of Margrave Leopold Wilhelm von Baden-Hochberg
DATE OF BIRTH 1605 or 1606
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1664
Place of death regensburg