August Joseph Maria von Schaesberg

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August Joseph Maria Graf von Schaesberg (born October 24, 1730 in Düsseldorf ; † February 9, 1801 there ) was the head of the Lower Rhine noble family von Schaesberg .

Life

Bergfried Rittergut Schöller (2005) - Refuge for his wife Isabella after the French invaded in 1794

He married Isabella Maria von Cortenbach in 1770. Her marriage to Isabella had five children. Friedrich, Karl Theodor Maria, Eduard, Richard Martin Maria and Heinrich Edmund Maria. His work was shaped by the dispute over the territorial claims of the aristocratic house in the Duchy of Brabant and the reproach of the Imperial Court Council in Vienna that his father Johann Wilhelm von Schaesberg did not try to reassign his county in 1764 after the accession of Emperor Joseph II would have. The Duchy of Brabant did not contest the ownership rights of House Schaesberg to its territories in Brabant. However, the sovereignty granted at that time over the Brabant territories by Emperor Charles VI. without the consent of the Brabant stands.

In the dispute with the Reichshofrat in 1786, due to an intervention by Kaunitz , Schaesberg succeeded in confirming his rule over the county of Kerpen and Lommersum . He renounced the postmaster's office in the Electoral Palatinate and was appointed to the Imperial Privy Council instead. On October 5th, 1794, French troops occupied the county of Kerpen-Lommersum. August fled to his brother canon Karl Graf von Schaesberg in Münster . His wife Isabella found refuge in the Bergisch manor Schöller . He refused to pay the French war dues of 22,000 livres . In 1799 he was entered on the French emigrant list and from then on was subject to the emigrant law.

He died in Düsseldorf in 1801.

literature

  • Leo Peters : History of the sex from Schaesberg to mediatization. A contribution to the exploration of the inter-territorial ties of the Rhine-Maasland nobility . Ed .: Johannes Erbgraf von Schaesberg. Verlag der Buchhandlung Matussek, Nettetal 1990, ISBN 3-920743-19-9 , p. 308 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peters, p. 232
  2. ↑ Peters, p. 236
predecessor Office successor
Johann Wilhelm von Schaesberg Head of the Schaesberg family Richard Martin Maria von Schaesberg
personal data
SURNAME Schaesberg, August Joseph Maria von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1801
Place of death Dusseldorf