Clary and Aldringen

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Coat of arms of the Prince of Clary and Aldringen

The Bohemian dynasty of Clary and Aldringen came from Northern Italy , a branch came to Tyrol around 1500 and to Bohemia around 1600 .

history

The Clario de Riva from Riva del Garda originally come from Friuli . During the time of Emperor Maximilian I , a member of the family placed himself in the emperor's service, his younger brother took the side of the enemy Republic of Venice . When Venice extended its influence to Friuli during the Turkish Wars, the imperial-minded Clario went to the neighboring county of Tyrol , where his branch acquired property; the descendants of the Friulian brother later died out.

Franz Clary acquired large estates in Bohemia in 1622/23, including the Dobritschan domain near Libeschitz , which remained in the family until 1804. For the goods previously confiscated by rebellious Bohemian Protestants , he paid Emperor Ferdinand II 34,700 thalers (inferior) money, which was in reality only worth 4,130 thalers, as Wallenstein and numerous other profiteers from the expulsion of exiles did. In 1627 he was raised to the Bohemian baron status.

Teplitz Castle (owned by the family from 1634 to 1945)

His son Hieronymus married Anna Maria Aldringen, the sister of the imperial field marshal Johann von Aldringen , who, in 1634, after the killing of Wallenstein from the confiscated property of Count Wilhelm Kinsky, who was also murdered, took over the Teplitz rulership with a seat at Teplitz Castle as a reward for his loyalty to the emperor had been given. Johann Graf von Aldringen fell shortly afterwards during the Battle of Landshut in 1634. After disputes with other Aldringen siblings, the acquisition of the Teplitz rule, located in the Sudeten German north of Bohemia, was finally confirmed in 1666, the Clary family was elevated to the rank of count and a name and heraldic association made.

Because of the possessions in Tyrol, the family was accepted into the Landmannschaft of Tyrol in 1693 . She also had property in Vorarlberg (from 1679 the Alt-Montfort Castle ). In 1760 Franz Wenzel Graf von Clary and Aldringen acquired the Palais Mollard-Clary in Vienna as a residence in the capital. In 1767 he was raised to the hereditary imperial prince's rank as an imperial secret councilor and chamberlain . The members of the family were hereditary members of the manor house of the Austrian Imperial Council . The respective prince was determined by the primogeniture , all other members of the family bear the name Graf or Countess von Clary and Aldringen.

Prince Edmund (1813-1894) acquired a palazzo in Venice around 1855 as residence for his father-in-law, Count Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont and his wife Dorothea von Ficquelmont , who is still owned by the family today. Two of Edmund's sisters married into the Radziwiłł family in 1832 : Mathilde (1806–1896) married Prince Wilhelm von Radziwill , Leontine his uncle Boguslaw von Radziwill . Edmund's youngest son Manfred von Clary and Aldringen was the long-time governor of Styria and in 1899 became Prime Minister of Cisleithanien , the Austrian half of Austria-Hungary, for a few weeks . Edmund's eldest son, Prince Carlos (1844–1920), married to Felicie Radziwill, was followed as head of the family by the second son, Prince Siegfried (1848–1929), married to Therese Countess Kinsky , who had previously been the Austrian envoy in various countries . He was followed, appointed by Carlos as heir, by Siegfried's son Alfons (1887–1978) as the seventh prince. In 1916 in Eltville am Rhein he married Lidwine Countess von und zu Eltz called Faust von Stromberg , daughter of Count Jacob zu Eltz, Fideikommissherrn at Eltz Castle in the Eifel, Majoratsherrn at Eltville in Rheingau and Vukovar in Slavonia, Imperial and Royal Chamberlain, and of Princess Marie von Lobkowicz from the Melnik family. Princess Lidwine was born in Eltville in 1894, received the dignity of a Star Cross and died in Venice in 1984 like her husband before.

Prince Alfons was a doctor of law, imperial and royal chamberlain, knight of honor and devotion of the sovereign Order of Malta , officer in the First World War and from 1920 lord of Teplitz with Graupen and Hohenleipa after the Kingdom of Bohemia was dissolved in the First Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 . He endeavored to renovate the family businesses, which included forests and Meierhöfe, but somewhat reduced by a land reform, as well as a large brewery, a health resort with baths, health resorts, restaurants and cafés, a coal mine, two sawmills, a brickworks, a lime works and belonged to a wood processing factory. In 1945 the property was expropriated after the family went into hiding from the Red Army and was subsequently expelled . The marriage had a daughter Elisalex and three sons, of whom the first, Hieronymus, died in 1941 near Sokolowka in the Ukraine , the youngest, Karl Georg, in 1944 in Koprivnica in Croatia. The second son, Marcus (1919–2007), was married to Gisela, b. von Witzleben (1922-2001), and continued the older line of the princely house of Clary and Aldringen to the present day.

The members of the older line have lived in Germany and Italy since 1945. The head of the family has been Hieronymus Fürst von Clary and Aldringen (* 1944), grandson of the princely couple Alfons and Lidwine, who live in Frankfurt and Venice , since March 2007 . A younger branch has lived in Austria since the end of the 19th century, and Herrnau Castle (Salzburg) has remained in their possession to this day .

Personalities

coat of arms

Imperial Roman-German Imperial Princes Vienna February 2, 1767: Square with a red bar and covered with a golden heart shield, inside a crowned black double-headed eagle with an Austrian shield , on it a black F and an archduke's hat over the shield ; Field 1: in blue three (2: 1) gold stars, field 2: in gold two black double hooks inserted through a crown of leaves (both fields: Aldringen ), field 3: in gold three (1: 2) blue dice, field 4: in blue a silver tower placed obliquely to the left (both fields: Clary); this includes three helmets with blue and silver covers: 1. an arm clad in silver with two crossed flags marked as fields 3 and 1, 2. the double-headed eagle of the heart shield, 3. an arm clad in silver with the image from field 2 in the hand; Princely hat and coat .

  • Coat of arms of the Prince of Clary and Aldringen

  • Coat of arms of the Counts of Clary and Aldringen

  • Coat of arms of Count Clary zum Sparbersbach

building

literature

  • Alfons Clary-Aldringen: Stories of an Old Austrian. Ullstein, Frankfurt 1977, ISBN 3-550-07474-3 .
  • Genealogical handbook of the nobility, Princely houses Volume XV, Volume 114 of the complete series, CA Starke, Limburg / Lahn 1997, pp. 574-585.
  • Matthieu Magne, Princes de Bohême. Les Clary-Aldringen à l'épreuve des révolutions (1748-1848) , Paris, Honoré Champion, 2019

Web links

Commons : Clary-Aldringen family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfons Clary-Aldringen: Tales of an Old Austrian , p. 272
  2. ↑ a b Stadtmuseum Graz: Historical yearbook of the city of Graz. Volume 32/33, Graz 2002, p. 196.
  3. ^ Ludwig Felix: History of the development of property from a cultural and economic point of view. Volume 4, Part 2: The Influence of State and Law on the Development of Property. Scientia, Aalen 1964, reprint of the 1903 edition of Leipzig, p. 462.
  4. ↑ Genealogy-1 Clary-Aldringen (accessed July 15, 2016)
  5. ↑ Genealogy-2 Clary-Aldringen (accessed July 15, 2016)
  6. ↑ Genealogy-3 Clary-Aldringen (accessed July 15, 2016)
  7. ↑ Alfons Clary-Aldringen: Tales of an old Austrian , p. 230ff.
  8. ^ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility, Princely Houses, Volume XV, Volume 114 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg / Lahn 1997, pp. 574-581
  9. ↑ Conversation with Prince Clary-Aldringen on November 10, 2010 (PDF; 4.2 MB)