Anton IV of Montfort

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Count Anton IV of Montfort (oil painting by Andreas Brugger )

Count Anton IV of Montfort (born November 16, 1723 in Tettnang ; † December 3, 1787 in Tettnang) was the last representative in the male line of the noble family Montfort (the Monforts descended from the Count Palatine of Tübingen ). Although he never ruled himself for lack of his own rule, he is nevertheless commonly included in the dynastic census of the Montforts as Anton IV.

Life

From 1733 to 1737 Anton attended high school in Konstanz with his older brother Franz Xaver, from 1737 to 1740 he studied in Salzburg and then embarked on a military career. It led him through stations in Ulm, Rottweil and Kehl up to the rank of Lieutenant General Field Marshal who worked for the Swabian District .

In 1733 he inherited the Oberhof in Tettnang, and in 1746 the Montforterhof in Salzburg. After his brother Franz Xaver, the ruling count, ceded the rule to the Habsburgs due to excessive indebtedness in 1780 and died that same year, Anton retired as a private citizen in Tettnang in what is now the Krone inn near the gate lock . He raised the money needed to buy and remodel the house according to his needs by selling the Oberhof. Most recently, he received a pension of 6,000 guilders per year from the Habsburgs, which was added to his military pension and the rent of the Montforterhof. With this income he could afford a valet, servant and several carriages. With his death in 1787 the family died out for good. In his honor, on December 6, 1787, a great funeral procession was held for the school youth, the council and the garrison, with a rider in armor holding a sword in one hand and the fallen coat of arms of the Montforts in the other as a symbol of the last offspring of the family wore. The procession ended at St. Gallus Church, on whose wall Anton IV was buried.

Afterlife

Monument in the St. Gallus Church in Tettnang

Anton IV bequeathed his property to the poor of the Tettnang, Langenargen and Schomburg rulers . However, since the debt far exceeded the proceeds of an auction of his property, this plan remained wishful thinking at first. However, the Tettnang Poor Institute took over an inheritance claim Anton for a property in Kißlegg based on the will , which was actually fought for in court in 1794. After deducting the debts, the “Montfortische Foundation” was established with 14,000 guilders.

In the following year, a memorial for Anton IV was erected in the parish church of St. Gallus in Tettnang, which was created by the sculptor Johann Georg Wieland from Mimmenhausen . It is adorned with the fallen coat of arms of the Monforts. The inscription reads:

Monument of love and gratitude from the poor of the Tettnang, Argen and Schomburg rulers for their founder and benefactor, once the high-bored Mr. Anton des Heil. Rom. Reich Count of Montfort, the most highly praised. Hover. District General Field Marshal Lieutenant, des churpfälz. St. Georgii order knight and last descendant of this count. House, is born. Nov. 16, 1723 and died Dec. 3. 1787, raised in 1795. RIP

In 1916 the foundation's capital was 29,000 marks. The foundation capital only perished as a result of the post-war inflation after the First World War . With a symbolic capital, however, it still exists (as of 1997). Count Anton von Montfortische Armenstiftung (1819–1920) is kept in the Langenargen municipal archive.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Vögele, see literature.
  2. ^ Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger: Description of the Oberamt Tettnang. Stuttgart and Tübingen: JG Cotta, 1838, p. 114.
  3. ^ Alois Niederstätter: Montfort, Counts of, in: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns.
  4. ↑ The Counts of Montfort. History and culture . Gessler, Friedrichshafen 1982, ISBN 3-922137-16-4 .
  5. ^ Karl Heinz Burmeister: History of the City of Tettnang , Konstanz 1997, ISBN 3-87940-595-6 .
  6. ↑ cf. Complete repertory ( pdf ).

literature

  • Konrad Vögele: Count Anton IV., 1723–1787. Last offspring of the Counts of Montfort . In: Counts and Countesses of Montfort in the 17th and 18th centuries. Your relationship to Salzburg . Senn, Tettnang 2010, ISBN 978-3-88812-225-5 , pp. 146-152.

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personal data
SURNAME Anton IV of Montfort
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German noblemen and military, last representative of the House of Montfort
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Tettnang
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1787
Place of death Tettnang