Caspar Zdenko from Capliers

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Caspar Zdenko Count von Capliers (1611–1686)

Caspar Zdenko Count von Capliers (* 1611 ; † October 6, 1686 in Vienna ) was Baron von Sulewitz, kk field marshal , defender of Vienna and vice-president of the Court War Council .

Life

Capliers was the son of the Appellationsrat Albrecht Ritter von Capliers († 1614) and Magdalena von Udritsch (Majdalena z Údrče). After the early death of his father, his grandfather Caspar Ritter von Capliers took over the upbringing. As a participant in the Bohemian Uprising of 1618, he was captured and beheaded on June 21, 1621, and his property was confiscated. The mother then fled to relatives and Caspar Zdenko became an imperial officer. In 1632 he inherited the dominion of Upper Koblitz (Horní Chobolice) from a cousin . In 1642 he was promoted to the rank of sergeant major, in 1646 lieutenant colonel and a year later he was promoted to commandant of eight companies of cuirassiers. In 1649 he received the patent for a regiment of cavalry. With the regiment he moved for the Spaniards against the French in the Milan area .

In 1654 Emperor Ferdinand III raised him . in the baron class. In June 1656 he was promoted to field sergeant general and in 1661 to field marshal lieutenant. In 1663 he was appointed to the Court War Council in Vienna. In 1671 he worked as a court assessor in the trial against the Hungarian conspirators Nádasdy , Zriny and Frangepan . His great knowledge of guns made him first on July 7th, 1673 the post of General Feldzeugmeister, before he held the important post of General War Commissioner from 1674 to 1678. At this time he was raised to the hereditary Bohemian count . The rank was extended to the Roman Empire of the German nation on February 5, 1676.

During the Dutch War , the French occupied Freiburg im Breisgau and threatened Tyrol . Capliers was given command of the troops in Innsbruck . After the Peace of Nijmegen he was called to Prague. The court stayed there because the plague raged in Vienna. There he took part in the deliberations of the court about the peasant unrest that had broken out in Bohemia. Capliers belonged to the party of those who recommended accommodation. On March 7, 1681, he was appointed Vice President of the Court War Council.

At the coronation of Emperor Leopold I's third wife Eleonore Magdalena in Sopron , he was invited to the important negotiations on the Gravamina of the Hungarian estates alongside Prince Schwarzenberg, Court Chancellor Johann Paul Hocher and Count Nostitz . On December 12th, he acted with Count Palffy as imperial commissioner for the solemn deposit, blocking and sealing of the Hungarian crown insignia .

During the Turkish siege in 1683 , the Emperor appointed him chairman of the secret college of deputies that ran the business of government in besieged Vienna during the emperor's absence. In the letter from the emperor of July 9, 1683, he received unrestricted powers. He was busy with the administration, which meant the procurement and distribution of provisions and funds, the handling of the health police, the provision of workers, the drawing up of capable men for armed service, etc. He stayed out of military matters until the time when he was a count Starhemberg was wounded and his representative Count Daun was sick with a fever. Capliers now also took command of the defenders, which included setting up new batteries at the Mölker and Löwen Bastion . In December 1683 he was appointed General Field Marshal by the Emperor for his achievements and the citizens of Vienna honored him with a gift of 1,500 guilders in gold. But his strength soon ran out. When the Polish King Sobieski moved into the city after successfully relieving Vienna, he was sick in bed. He had to stay away from the big banquet in honor of the king on December 13th. Subsequently, the king visited the count at the bedside, in recognition of his services during the siege.

Capliers was considered an educated man. He spoke German, Bohemian, Latin, French and Italian. At his Mileschau Palace near Lobositz he not only had a large library, but also a collection of mathematical instruments, a well-equipped armory and a picture gallery with works by Perugino , Rubens , Tizian , Guido Reni and Carlo Dolci . He died on October 6, 1686 in Vienna and was buried in the St. Antonius Chapel in Mileschau, which he had built. The last count of his family died with him. In his will he decreed that on September 12th (day of relief from Vienna) every year a high mass would be held in Mileschau and that 62 guilders would be distributed to the local poor in memory of the 62-day siege. This was still done in the 19th century.

family

He was married several times. In 1644 he married Anna von Bukovan († 1645), daughter of Wenzel Bukovansky von Bukovan and Helena Cernin von Chudenic and widow of Georg Kaplirz de Sulewicz († 1644). After the death of his first wife, he married Anna Katharina von Hoyos (* 1624 - January 20, 1665), daughter of Count Johann Balthasar von Hoyos and Dorothea Teyfe von Gnadt in 1646 . His third wife was Anna Theresia Zucker von Tamfeld (* 1638; † October 16, 1712), daughter of Jaroslav Franz Zucker von Tamfeld and Anna Sibilla Zdarcky von Zdar . All marriages were childless.

His last wife was the widow of Karl Kaspar Caplif von Sulevic on Nedvedic. After the death of her second husband, she married Count Philipp Emerich Metternich von Winneburg and Beilstein (* 1625; † 1698).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann F. von Schönfeld: Materials for the diplomatic genealogy of the nobility. Volume 1, p. 365, digitized
  2. ↑ Description of the previously known Bohemian private coins and medals. P. 221 digital copy
  3. ↑ Family tree
personal data
SURNAME Capliers, Caspar Zdenko from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Capellier, Caspar Zdenko von; Cappleri de Sulewicz, Caspar Zdenko von; Capliers, Caspar Zdenko Count von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baron von Sulewitz, kk field marshal, vice-president of the court war council, defender of Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH 1611
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1686
Place of death Vienna