Edmund von Kesselstatt

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Count Edmund Jodoc Willibald Josef Maria von Kesselstatt (born July 26, 1765 in Trier ; † April 29, 1840 ibid) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman.

Life

family

Edmund von Kesselstatt was the son of Count Hugo Kasimir Edmund von Kesselstatt (born September 15, 1727 in Föhren , † March 3, 1796 in Würzburg ), land steward , and his wife Katharina Elisabeth (born May 7, 1734 in Eichstätt ; December 17 1814 in Mainz ), née Knebel von Katzenelnbogen . He was born the 11th child of 14 children, his siblings were:

  • Franz von Kesselstatt ;
  • Johann Philipp von Kesselstatt (born September 18, 1754; † June 20, 1828 in Mainz);
  • Friedrich von Kesselstatt (born August 17, 1755 in Trier, † January 31, 1780 in Mainz);
  • Karl von Kesselstatt (born August 13, 1756 in Trier, † June 23, 1829 in Vienna );
  • Franz Hyazinth Christoph Philipp Anton von Kesselstatt (born August 30, 1757; † September 12, 1814);
  • Isabella Sophia von Kesselstatt (born October 6, 1758; † October 30, 1789 in Mainz);
  • Josef Emmerich von Kesselstatt (born October 26, 1759 - † December 3, 1762);
  • Clara Philippine von Kesselstatt (born November 3, 1760 in Trier, † September 30, 1819 in Augsburg ); married to Johann Josef Heinrich von Thünnefeld (* unknown; † December 9, 1810), Trier Chamberlain;
  • Johann Hugo von Kesselstatt (* December 24, 1761; † November 22, 1762 in Trier);
  • Maria Anna von Kesselstatt (* July 25, 1763; † June 13, 1825);
  • Sophia von Kesselstatt (1767–1767);
  • Clemens Wenzeslaus von Kesselstatt (* May 12, 1768; † 1822);
  • Kunigunde von Kesselstatt (born June 23, 1773 - † November 6, 1793 in Koblenz ).

Career

Through his brother Franz von Kesselstatt's voluntary resignation from office , Edmund von Kesselstatt received the benefice of the cathedral in Würzburg at the age of 9 in 1774 , and when he was 14 years old, his brother Franz Hyazinth Christoph Philipp Anton von Kesselstatt voluntarily renounced his office in Eichstätt , so that from 1779 he also received the benefices there.

In 1776 he was raised to the rank of imperial count. In 1784 he began studying theology at the University of Mainz . At the age of 23 he was ordained a subdeacon by the auxiliary bishop Johann Valentin Heimes in Mainz in 1788 . In 1790 he was Councilor and 1794 Kapitular Eichstaett and 1796 in Würzburg and 1801 Domizellar in Passau .

After the Treaty of Lunéville of February 9, 1801, which ended the Second Coalition War against France, it had been determined that the Prince Archbishopric of Salzburg would pay the Grand Duke Ferdinand III as compensation . of Tuscany , Prince Archbishop Hieronymus von Colloredo abdicated and Edmund von Kesselstatt was nominated by Count Josef Albin Graf von Daun (1771-1851) to praise the cathedral in Passau, which at that time belonged to the Prince Archbishopric of Salzburg.

After Trier was liberated by Prussian troops in 1814, he made himself available to leading Prussian personalities such as State Chancellor Prince Karl August von Hardenberg , General Count August Neidhardt von Gneisenau and State Councilor Justus von Gruner . He informed Karl August von Hardenberg in a number of memoranda about the worries and wishes of the Moselle countries, about the border regulation on the Saar , the police system, the defense of the country, the state constitution, the situation of the Moselle winemakers and the sale of Moselle wine, the introduction of normal schools and re-establishment of the Trier University and he made suggestions for staffing the establishment of the district government in Trier.

After the formation of the Rhine Province on June 22, 1822, he was offered the office of bishop in Trier, but he refused this office because he saw the state supervision of his future activities as a restriction of his pastoral functions and interference. In the same year he bequeathed the Kesselstatt library to the cathedral chapter in Trier, which consisted of 110 medieval and early modern manuscripts , 114 incunabula and 163 works from the 16th to 19th centuries.

According to a list by Franz Xaver Streitberger in Franz von Kesselstatt, 1753–1841: Mainz canon, diplomat and dilettante in turbulent times , the imperial count's house of Kesselstatt owned properties in the following 35 places in 1802: Arenrath , Auw , Bade , Bausendorf , Bekond , Beilingen , Bruch , Dierscheid , Dodenburg , Daufenbach , Erlenbach , Esslingen , Föhren , Gelsdorf , Gladbach , Greverath , Heckenmünster , Heidweiler , Hosten , Lösnich , Meckel , Metternich, Naurath , Niersbach , Orenhofen , Niederolkenbach , Preist , Rivenich , Rodt , Scharfbillig , Speicher , Stolberg , Thörnich , Winterbach, Zemmer . In addition, wineries or wine rents of the imperial count's house of Kesselstatt must be proven in the following locations: Bekond, Graach , Kinheim , Klüsserath , Kröv , Lieser , Longen , Lösnich, Mehring , Niederemmel , Reil , Schweich , Thörnich, Ürzig and Zeltingen on the Mosel and Linz and Wallen on the Rhine . Thanks to the preservation of the family archive, which fled to Prague in 1794, and the reorganization of the same by Edmund von Kesselstatt between 1801 and 1803, the ownership claims could be preserved and the property regained.

Since 1807 he was able to increase the family fortune considerably through various acquisitions, and after it had been united in his person through further acquisitions and inheritances, a family entourage and majorate was constituted on April 4, 1834 and July 20, 1835 by royal sanction by means of deeds . The eldest son in each case should inherit the entire property; should there be no heirs of his own, his great-nephew Franz Michel Karl von Kesselstadt (1834–1848), son of the Austrian colonel and chamberlain Franz von Kesselstatt (1787–1834), would be the first majorate to receive it in his will. The real estate portfolio in 1846 amounted to approx. 5,400 hectares of land with a cadastral income of 18,541 thalers and income from wine rents of 1,209 thalers on average.

In 1826 the earl status was recognized by a royal Prussian ministerial rescript for Count Edmund and Klemens von Kesselstatt.

He was buried in the family crypt in Föhren Castle.

Freemasons

Edmund von Kesselstatt was a member of the Illuminati order . His religious name was "Guicciardini".

Awards

Edmund von Kesselstatt received the Order of the Red Eagle, second class.

literature

  • Directory of the painting collection from the estate of Count Edmund von Kesselstatt . F. Lintz's printing press, ca.1844
  • Gerhard Koelsch; Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum Mainz .: Franz von Kesselstatt, 1753–1841: Mainz canon, diplomat and dilettante in turbulent times . Mainz: Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum, © 2014 (Publications of the Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum Mainz, vol. 5)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New necrology of the Germans . Voigt, 1842 ( google.de [accessed on January 16, 2018]).
  2. ^ Kesselstatt, Johann Hugo Casimir Edmund von Count b. 15 Sep 1727 F "ohren d. 3 Mar 1796 Wurzburg. Retrieved January 16, 2018 .
  3. ^ The Imperial Counts of Kesselstatt . In: archive.li . January 2, 2010 ( archive.today [accessed January 17, 2018]).
  4. ^ The library of the Bursfelde monastery in the late Middle Ages . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht ( google.de [accessed on January 17, 2018]).
  5. ^ The incunabula of the Trier cathedral library. Retrieved January 17, 2018 .
  6. ^ Genealogical yearbook of the German nobility: for .. Cast, 1846 ( google.de [accessed on January 16, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Edmund Jodoc Willibald Joseph Maria Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt - Illuminati Wiki. Retrieved January 16, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Members of the Illuminati Order - Masonic Wiki. Retrieved January 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kesselstatt, Edmund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kesselstadt, Edmund von; Kesselstatt, Edmund Jodoc Willibald Josef Maria von; Kesselstadt, Edmund Jodoc Willibald Josef Maria von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1840
Place of death trier