Annibale Gonzaga

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Annibale Gonzaga

Annibale Gonzaga (* 1602 ; † August 2, 1668 in Vienna ) was a scion of the Italian princely family Gonzaga . He entered the imperial service, was in command of the city of Vienna and rose to become field marshal and president of the court war council .

family

He came from the Sabioneta and Bozzolo line of the Gonzaga family. He was married to Hedwig Marie von Sachsen-Lauenburg since 1636. After her death in 1644 he married Countess Maria Barbara von Czaky in 1646. In his first marriage he married a woman from a royal family and in his second marriage he married into the Hungarian nobility. The marriages resulted in four sons and a few daughters. The sons died before the father.

Life

He entered the imperial military service. In 1634 he was colonel of a regiment. He owed his further rise partly to his own achievements, partly to his origins. Gonzaga took part in the Battle of Nördlingen as one of the commanders and, after the victory, brought the news of it to Vienna. In 1640 he became the commander of the city of Vienna . Two bastions of the Vienna city walls , which he had built, were named after him. Three years later he also became a colonel in the City Guardia. In addition, he was also active outside of Vienna. Gonzaga negotiated in Goslar in 1641 with representatives of the Lower Saxon Empire to end the war. In 1642, together with Count Bruay, he commanded the right wing of the imperial army at the Battle of Breitenfeld . A year later he commanded an imperial army in Hungary. In 1644 Gonzaga was appointed general field, land and house master. He was a colonel in various regiments.

Gonzaga also held important positions at the imperial court. In 1655 he was the chief equerry. He commanded troops that the Emperor had sent to Hungary in 1658. In 1660 he was General of the Artillery, Field Marshal and Privy Councilor. He belonged to an embassy that negotiated with the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm in Berlin . This contributed to the Oliva contract . From 1666 he was president of the court war council and chief steward of the widowed Empress Eleonore , with whom he was related. He had already held the position of chief steward under Empress Eleonore the Elder . clothed.

He was buried in the Franciscan Church in Vienna . In 1861 the Gonzagagasse in Vienna's Innere Stadt (1st district) was named after him.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Schnettger: History of a Decadence? The Italian Dynasties in Early Modern Europe. In: Yearbook for European History Vol. 8/2007 p. 63
  2. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Barthold: History of the great German war from the death of Gustav Adolf. Vol. 1, Berlin, 1851 p. 185.
  3. ↑ Wilhelm Görges: Patriotic stories and memorabilia of the past. 2nd year Braunschweig, 1844 p. 144
  4. ↑ Hans Eggert Willibald von der Lühe: Military Conversation Lexicon. Vol. 1 Leipzig, 1833 p. 697 at Munich digitization center
  5. ^ List on the Wiener Hof project
  6. ↑ An attempt at a historical description of the (...) royal seat of Berlin. Part 2, Berlin, 1793 p. 96

literature

predecessor Office successor
Wenceslaus Eusebius of Lobkowicz President of the Court War Council
1665 - 1668 		Raimondo Montecuccoli
personal data
SURNAME Gonzaga, Annibale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Imperial Field Marshal and President of the Court War Council
DATE OF BIRTH 1602
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1668
Place of death Vienna