Christoph Simon von Thun
Christoph Simon von Thun (from 1604 baron, from 1629 count; * September 12, 1582 ; † March 27, 1635 ) was prior of the Order of St. John or Maltese in Hungary and chief steward of Ferdinand III.
biography
He came from the Tyrolean noble family Thun and was the youngest son of Sigmund Thun zu Castel Brughier and Anna Christine (née von Fürstenstein). He studied in Italy . He was enrolled in 1599 in Siena and in 1602 in the law school of Padua .
He served in troops of the House of Habsburg during various campaigns, such as the long Turkish war . He was raised to the baron status in 1604. In 1615 he was accepted into the Bohemian Priory of the Order of Malta. In 1629 he was raised to the rank of imperial count. He had the future emperor Ferdinand III. Taught in arms craft and contemporary military affairs. Even afterwards he remained a close confidante of the emperor. He was a secret imperial councilor, Chief Steward Ferdinand III, Grand Prior of the Order of Malta in Hungary and Commander in Kleinöls , Eger and Losen.
Especially because of him, the focus of the family shifted to Bohemia. After the suppression of the Bohemian uprising , he acquired numerous goods and possessions confiscated from supporters of the movement. After the religious edicts were issued and the Protestant nobility left, other goods were added. The possessions included the lordship of Tetschen ( Děčín ) and Blankenheim, the Klášterec nad Ohří castle in Klösterle an der Eger, and numerous other goods. This made his family one of the most important landowners in the Egertal . In 1628, for 60,000 guilders, he also acquired the rather extensive County of Hohenstein , which was once part of the empire but then came under the sovereignty of the Electorate of Saxony. Since then, the line of the family has also been called Thun-Hohenstein. The Hohenstein property itself was lost again in the course of the Thirty Years' War . In order to be able to bequeath his possessions to his brothers as a member of the order, he had obtained a dispensation from Pope Urban VIII . He ceded part of his possessions to his brother Johann Cyprian during his lifetime.
After the battle of Nördlingen he had to undergo an operation and suffered from the consequences. He then intended to join the Jesuit order. Before he could implement this intention against the express wish of the emperor, he died. He was buried in the Jesuit professorship in Vienna. He remained childless.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Thun-Hohenstein, Christoph Simon Reichsgraf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 45th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1882, p. 19 f. ( Digitized version ).
- P. Franz Focke: From the oldest historical area of German Bohemia. Warnsdorf, 1879 p. 286 f.
Web links
- Biography Notes (in Thirty Years' War in Testimonials, Chronicles and Reports)
- Datasheet project Wiener Hof
Individual evidence
- ^ Ingrid Matschinegg: Austrians as university visitors in Italy (1500–1630). Diss. Graz, 1999 p. 294
- ↑ Brigitte Vacha (ed.): The Habsburgs. A European family story. Vienna, 1992 p. 221
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thun, Christoph Simon from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prior of the Order of Malta in Hungary and Chief Chamberlain |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1582 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1635 |