Ernst von Metternich

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Ernst Graf von Metternich (1657–1727), painting by Johann Rudolf Huber around 1707

Ernst Freiherr von Metternich , count since 1697 , (* December 5, 1657 , † December 1727 in Regensburg ) was a Kurbrandenburg , then a Prussian diplomat.

Life

Origin and family

Ernst von Metternich was a member of the Protestant New Mark Chursdorfer line of the Barons von Metternich . His parents were Johann Reinhard Freiherr von Metternich († 1637), administrator of Halberstadt Monastery, and Lucia von Bornstedt from the Lochstedt family. He married Anna von Regal zu Kranichsfeld (1670–1737). The marriage resulted in three children:

  1. Ernst Eberhard Freiherr von Metternich (1691–1717), Prussian envoy to the Perpetual Reichstag
  2. Elenore Christine Freiin von Metternich (1692–1709), ⚭ 1708 Maximilian Ludwig von Regal zu Kranichsfeld († 1717)
  3. Ernst August Freiherr von Metternich (1694–1720)

Career

Metternich was Brandenburg's Privy Councilor of State and was sent to Regensburg as envoy to the Perpetual Diet in 1690 . There he was elevated to the rank of imperial count by Emperor Leopold I on May 28, 1696 . At the imperial court in Vienna he was one of those who was awarded the royal dignity to Elector Friedrich III. negotiated by Brandenburg . In 1702 Metternich was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to the Confederation , but did not come to Switzerland until 1706. It was he who procured the acquisition of Neuchâtel for Prussia, declared on November 3, 1707 , and was de facto governor and president of the State Council until June 1709. From 1713 he was envoy to the peace negotiations in Utrecht .

Shortly before his death he converted to the Catholic faith and was buried in the monastery of Sankt Emmeram . The process sparked a series of controversies. King Friedrich Wilhelm I wrote on January 20, 1728:

“Every righteous Catholic is free to allow himself to be used by a Protestant gentleman for a sham in religious matters. (...) As a well-deserved punishment, his cadaver should have rotten in a completely different place than in an honest grave. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopold Nedopil: German aristocratic samples from the German Order Central Archive. Vienna 1868, p. 99, no.695.
  2. Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The king. Prussian and Churfürstl. Brandenburg Really Secret State Council on its bicentenary foundation day on January 5th, 1805. Berlin 1805, p. 397, No. 132.
  3. ^ Karl Eduard Vehse : History of the German courts since the Reformation. Volume 2, Hamburg 1854, pp. 177-178, No. 8.