Eugen Alexander von Thurn and Taxis

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Coat of arms of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis
Epitaph in Frankfurt am Main, Kaiserdom St. Bartholomäus

Eugen Alexander von Thurn und Taxis (* baptized January 11, 1652 in Brussels ; † February 21, 1714 in Frankfurt am Main ) was the first Prince of Thurn and Taxis .

Life

Eugen Alexander was the second eldest son of Postmaster General Lamoral Claudius Franz von Thurn und Taxis and his wife Anna Franziska Eugenia Countess von Horn . After the death of his father in September 1676, he succeeded him as General Hereditary Postmaster of the Imperial Post and General Postmaster of the Spanish Netherlands . In 1681 the last Spanish-Habsburg king, Charles II , appointed him Spanish prince and upgraded the county of Braine-le-Château, acquired from Lamoral Claudius Franz, to a principality under the name Principauté de la Tour et Tassis . On October 4, 1695, he was appointed imperial prince in the Holy Roman Empire by Emperor Leopold I , although Eugen Alexander had no territorial ownership in the HRR.

In 1700 he added the rule of Impden to his possessions, but had to leave the Spanish Netherlands after the French occupation in the War of the Spanish Succession and was deposed as postmaster general of the Netherlands in 1701 by the new Spanish King Philip V , a grandson of the French King Louis XIV . His possessions in the Spanish Netherlands were subject to French confiscation . In 1702 he moved to Frankfurt am Main, where a new headquarters for the Imperial Post Office was established under his leadership.

On November 26, 1704 he received a vote and a seat in the prince bank of the Kurrheinische Kreis , although he did not own any territory. In return, he had to provide two mounted men and six other men and support the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar with 39 guilders a year.

In his will from 1713, he set the conversion of the family property into a Fideikommiss and suggested that the Dutch property should be sold in favor of acquisitions in the Holy Roman Empire .

After his death he was buried in the Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew in Frankfurt, where his magnificent marble epitaph has been preserved.

Eugen Alexander was married to Princess Anna Adelheid von Fürstenberg -Heiligenberg († November 13, 1701) for the first time on March 24, 1678 , his second marriage from November 21, 1703 to Anna Augusta Countess von Hohenlohe -Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst († September 21, 1711).

progeny

  • Anselm Franz (baptized January 30, 1681; † November 8, 1739), successor as general inheritance postmaster, ∞ with Maria Ludovika Anna von Lobkowitz
  • Jacob Lamoral, attested as Canon of Cologne in 1696
  • Anna Franziska (baptized on February 24 (25) 1683; † January 17, 1763), ∞ with Franz Ernst Altgraf zu Salm- Reifferscheidt
  • Eleonora Ferdinanda (baptized September 18, 1685; † December 22, 1721), ∞ with Philipp Hugo Graf von Manderscheid -Kail
  • Inigo Lamoral Felix Maria Franz (baptized September 2, 1686; † August 16, 1717), soldier, killed in action at Belgrade
  • Anna Theresia (baptized June 18, 1689), nun
  • Maria Isabella Godofreda (baptized December 1, 1691; † April 22, 1764) ∞ with Guillaume Alexandre Comte de Lannoy , Baron de Wignacourt
  • Heinrich Franz (baptized February 26, 1682; † December 4, 1700), Canon of Cologne and Augsburg (illegitimate)

died in childhood

  • Dorothea (1679-1681)
  • unnamed son (1680–1680)
  • Lothar Franz (1705-1712)
  • Maximilian Philipp Eleonore (1706–1706)
  • Philipp Lamoral (1708-1708)
  • Maria Josepha Franziska (1711–1711)

literature

  • Wolfgang Behringer : Thurn and Taxis. The history of your post office and your company. Piper , Munich and Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-492-03336-9 .
  • Martin Dallmeier: Sources for the history of the European postal system 1501-1806. Part II: Register of documents. Publishing house Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1977.
  • Martin Dallmeier: In: De post van Thurn and Taxis, La Poste des Tour et Tassis 1489–1794. Brussels 1982
  • Martin Dallmeier, Martha Schad : The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis, 300 years of history in pictures. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1996, ISBN 3-7917-1492-9 .
  • European family tables. Volume V, House Thurn and Taxis, plates 129 and 130.
  • Josef Rübsam:  Taxis (Thurn and Taxis), Eugen Alexander Fürst von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 484-488.

Web links

Commons : Eugen Alexander von Thurn und Taxis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Martin Dallmeier, Martha Schad: The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis, 300 years of history in pictures. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1996, p. 14.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Behringer: Thurn and Taxis. Munich and Zurich 1990, p. 212.
  3. ^ Martin Dallmeier: Sources for the history of the European postal system 1501-1806. Pp. 246-250.
  4. ↑ Martin Dallmeier, Martha Schad: The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis, 300 years of history in pictures. Regensburg 1996, p. 17.
  5. ^ Wolfgang Behringer: Thurn and Taxis. 1990, p. 212.
predecessor Office successor
Lamoral Claudius Franz General inheritance postmaster
1676–1714 		Anselm Franz
--- Prince of Thurn and Taxis
1695–1714 		Anselm Franz
personal data
SURNAME Thurn and Taxis, Eugen Alexander von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Postmaster General, first Prince of Thurn and Taxis
DATE OF BIRTH baptized January 11, 1652
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1714
Place of death Frankfurt am Main