Ernst von Trautson

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Ernst Graf von Trautson (* 26. December 1633 ; † 7 January 1702 in Vienna ), actually seriously Trautson Count to Falkenstein Freiherr zu Sprechenstein and Schroffenstein, was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest who from 1685 to 1702 Prince Bishop of the Diocese of Vienna was .

Trautson's coat of arms as Prince-Bishop of Vienna

origin

He came from the Tyrolean nobility of the Trautson family , who had been elevated to the rank of imperial counts in 1598 . The youngest brother of Ernst Trautson, Johann Leopold Graf Trautson († 1724) was raised to the rank of imperial prince in 1711 . A younger son of the prince - and thus nephew of Bishop Ernst Trautson - Johann Joseph Trautson Imperial Count von Falkenstein was Prince Archbishop of Vienna from 1751 to 1765 and Cardinal from 1765 to 1757 .

Ernst was the third son of Johann Franz Trautson, Reichsgraf zu Falkenstein etc. (* 1609, † Vienna March 26, 1663), Supreme Court Master in Austria under the Enns , Obersterblandmarschall of the princes of Tyrol, Governor of the Regiment of the Lower Austrian Lands, Knight of the Order of Golden Fleece , Lord of St. Pölten , Laa, Dürnkrut, Mistelbach, Raspenbühel and Kaya and Maximiliana Walburga († May 12, 1639), daughter of Prince Johann Georg zu Hohenzollern-Hechingen .

Life

As a younger son, Ernst Trautson was earmarked for a career in the church and studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the Gregorian University in Rome . On March 12, 1661, he was ordained a deacon in Salzburg and a priest on June 11, 1661, and became canons of Salzburg and Strasbourg .

Emperor Leopold I appointed him Prince-Bishop of Vienna on March 23, 1685, with papal confirmation on September 10. He received his episcopal ordination on October 28, 1685 from the Apostolic Nuncio in Austria, Francesco Buonvisi.

The victories of Prince Eugene of Savoy against the Turks gave Trautson a peaceful term of office. He continued building the churches that had been destroyed during the Turkish siege in 1683 and designed St. Stephen's Cathedral by building new altars. He was interested in history and heraldry and had the Trautson manuscript made, in which grave inscriptions and coats of arms of the Viennese churches are copied.

In July 1701 Franz Anton Graf von Harrach became his coadjutor .

He was buried in the bishop's crypt in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.

See also: History of Christianity in Austria

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ J. Siebmacher's large book of arms, The arms of the nobility in Lower Austria, Part 2, S - Z, page 378; Verlag Bauer & Raspe, Neustadt ad Aisch, 1983
  2. ↑ Entry on Ernst von Trautson on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
  3. ↑ Entry on Ernst von Trautson on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)

literature

  • Franz Hadriga: The Trautson. Paladins of Habsburgs . Styria, Graz a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-222-12337-3 , pp. 96-108 (about Bishop Ernst von Trautson)
  • Rudolf Leeb et al. a .: History of Christianity in Austria. From antiquity to the present . Uebereuter, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-8000-3914-1
  • Franz Loidl: History of the Archdiocese of Vienna . Herold, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7008-0223-4

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predecessor Office successor
Emerich Sinelli Bishop of Vienna
1685 - 1702 		Franz Anton Count of Harrach
personal data
SURNAME Trautson, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trautson, Ernst Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic bishop of Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1633
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1702
Place of death Vienna