Egid Valentin Felix from Borié

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Egid Valentin Felix Freiherr von Borié zu Schönbach (born November 18, 1719 in Stockach , Swabian Austria ; † March 29, 1793 in Regensburg ) was court and government councilor of Würzburg , archducal-Austrian state councilor , imperial trainee at the imperial court chancellery , envoy of the Roman German Emperors Joseph II , Leopold II and Franz II and several imperial princes in the Perpetual Reichstag and in the Imperial Council of Dukes as well as landlords of Neuhaus , Salzburg and Dürrnhof .

Life

Family and education

Borié was a scion of the baronial family von Beaurieu (x) or from Borié from the Principality of Liège . His father, Johann Franz Egid von Borié, initially bailiff of the Landgraviate of Nellenburg , margrave of Baden privy councilor, in 1722 by Charles VI. promoted to the imperial nobility ( imperial knighthood ) with the addition of "von Schönbach" , was appointed assessor at the imperial court in Wetzlar in 1729 . His mother was Mariane Jacobi von Ehrenkron, the daughter of Chancellor Hartmann Jacobi von Ehrencron and his wife Salome von Lasser. The sons Franz Edmund and Jacob Georg were born before him. His sisters were Mariane, who later married Anselm Franz von Löhr, and Ursula, who married Franz Xavier von Fahnenberg. Franz Edmund was the archducal Austrian government councilor in Freiburg im Breisgau ( Upper Austria ), Jacob Georg electoral Palatinate government president in Neuburg an der Donau . After teaching at home and attending the Jesuit grammar school in Wetzlar , Egid von Borié went to study law at the Philipps University of Marburg , the University of Ingolstadt , where Johann Adam von Ickstatt taught him, and the University of Würzburg . He then received an internship with his father at the Reich Chamber of Commerce.

career

On August 19, 1739 Borié became government and court counselor of the Würzburg Prince-Bishop Friedrich Karl von Schönborn-Buchheim , who appointed him on August 1, 1743 as a secret trainee lawyer. In February 1744 he married Mariane Sabine Theresie von Reibelt, born in 1722, a wealthy daughter of the Würzburg court chancellor Johann Philipp Christoph von Reibelt (1686–1766), who brought the Neuhaus and Dürrnhof estates and shares of the Salzburg estate into the marriage. When, in 1746, a new prince-bishop, Anselm Franz von Ingelheim , took office, the conditions worsened considerably, so that Borié sought a position at the Imperial Court of Justice, which was opened for him with a Bavarian presentation. After the death of Prince-Bishop Anselm Franz, the cathedral chapter wanted to bring him back to Würzburg in 1749 and appointed him privy councilor . But it was not until 1752 that Prince-Bishop Karl Philipp von Greiffenclau zu Vollrads was able to persuade him to give up his position at the Imperial Court of Justice through the mediation of an imperial appointment as Reichshofrat and the associated prospect of a future career in the Reichshofkanzlei . Until 1754 he took care of the state culture and the factory system in the Würzburg government, in particular the wool and linen manufacture as well as the Würzburg breeding and work house . After the death of Karl Philip, he went to Vienna in 1754 to take up the position of Reichshofrat. Franz I soon appointed him a Reich trainee there. Together with his brothers made him the emperor on January 1, 1759 to the baron .

On January 18, 1761, the imperial wife Maria Theresa , who was particularly fond of him throughout her life , made him a member of her newly created Austrian Council of State (Council of State for domestic affairs) for an annual salary of 8,800 guilders , which had a great influence on him Procured state affairs for Austria. She also rewarded his loyalty to the office with the award of the Knight's Cross of the Order of St. Stephen and a pension. With the support of Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg , he initiated a reform of the Austrian financial administration. In 1763 he obtained the appointment of the enlightener and reformer Joseph von Sonnenfels as professor of political science at the University of Vienna . In 1764 he acted as the third royal Bohemian electoral ambassador to the cure of Joseph II as Roman-German king in Frankfurt am Main . On his return to Vienna, Maria Theresa honored Borié's “feat” in the rapid electoral surrender with the award of the Commander's Cross of the Order of St. Stephen. Joseph II made him a member of the secret conference for imperial affairs in 1767, which, apart from the emperor and himself, only included Rudolph Joseph von Colloredo and Johann Anton von Pergen .

After the Treaty of Hubertusburg , he promoted the settlement movement ("impopulation") to the Banat ( Swabian Congregation ). In 1770 the emperor sent him to Regensburg with an annual salary of 12,000 guilders , where Borié represented him as the Austrian and Burgundian comitial and directorate envoy at the Reichstag and in the Imperial Council of Princes . Until 1780 he was also given the task of representing the Virilstimme of Würzburg , subsequently also representing Bamberg , Fulda , Dietrichstein and Thurn und Taxis . In 1790 he was given the title of Real Privy Councilor with the title Excellency .

Neuhaus Castle , built in 1767, since 1888 Kurhaus, today Kur- und Schlosshotel, 2011; on the right the tower of the Catholic palace chapel Heiligkreuz , built from 1773 to 1776 by the rococo architect Heinrich Todesko, also on behalf of Boriés

Between 1772 and 1792, Borié wrote a considerable number of writings on various topics of the judiciary and imperial constitutional law on the basis of the extensive holdings of the Austrian legation archive, in particular on the then current question of visits to the imperial court . In Dürrnhof he commissioned the St. Aegidius branch church built in 1760. In 1767, as the landlord of Neuhaus, Salzburg and Dürrnhof, he had Neuhaus Castle built into the family seat, and from 1773 on its Heiligkreuz chapel. To the land he had acquired as beneficiaries of his wife, he bought in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen located manors Einödhausen and milker added. Bories wife died after 45 years of childless marriage on April 3, 1789. He died on March 29, 1793 Room of the Prior of the Augustinian Monastery Regensburg after him at Mass in St. Augustine's Church, where he was little buried later, the apoplexy had met .

Johann Aloys Josef von Hügel followed him in 1793 and his nephew Egid Joseph Karl von Fahnenberg in 1795 in the post of Imperial Austrian Directorial envoy to the Holy Roman Empire, which he held until his death . The latter became one of his three main heirs after the niece Johanna von Borié had followed her uncle to her death within a few weeks. Other main heirs were the nephews Friedrich von Löhr and Severin von Borié.

Fonts (selection)

  • Insignificant proposals, the visitation and promotion of the judiciary at the Imperial Court of Justice, then concerning its sustentation work , Regensburg 1772 (addendum 1773)
  • Court of Appeal on the judgments of the Imperial Court of Justice in its current visitations , 1776
  • Thoughts to facilitate the administration of justice at the k. R. Supreme Court , 1786

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Samuelersch , Johann Gottfried Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Eleventh part (Bleiberg - Bonzen), Leipzig 1823, p. 32 ( Google Books )
  2. ^ Tilmann Breuer: Franconia. The administrative districts of Franconia, Lower Franconia and Upper Franconia . In: Georg Dehio: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , Volume Bayern I, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich 1999, p. 74
personal data
SURNAME Borié, Egid Valentin Felix from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönbach, Egid Valentin Felix Freiherr von Borié von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Würzburg court and government councilor, archducal-Austrian councilor of state
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1719
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockach , Swabian Austria
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1793
Place of death regensburg