Ferenc József Koháry

Koháry Ferenc József in Hungarian magnate costume, painted during a stay in Rome. Svätý Anton Museum

Ferenc József Koháry de Csabrág et Szitnya (born September 4, 1767 in Vienna , † June 27, 1826 in Oroszvar ) was a Hungarian-Austrian magnate, vice-chancellor of the Hungarian court chancellery and from 1815 first Prince Koháry .

Life

Franz Josef Kohary was born as the son of Count Ignaz Kohary (* December 2, 1726 - October 10, 1777) and Countess Maria Gabriella Cavriani di Imena (* April 25, 1736 in Vienna; † July 29, 1803 in Pest ). At the age of 10 he lost his father and his mother took over the guardianship until the age of majority. From 1791 the young count himself was able to dispose of his Hungarian - he was also the heir to Murany , Baloghvár , Derencsény and Fülek - as well as the three Lower Austrian lordships in Ebenthal , Dürnkrut and Walterskirchen .

At the age of 25, Franz Josef married Countess Maria Antonia Waldstein on February 13, 1792 . After the death of his only son Franz Seraph (* December 21, 1792, † April 19, 1798), his daughter Maria Antonia became the sole heir of the huge Kohary property. When she got engaged to Ferdinand Georg von Sachsen-Coburg , Emperor Franz I raised Ferenc Jozsef Kohary to the rank of prince to compensate for the difference in rank between the Kohary family and Sachsen-Coburg. This was done through a request from the groom's brother, Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Coburg . Franz Josef insisted that the descendants of the two be raised Catholic. In 1817 he was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece . Franz Josef Kohary died on June 27, 1826 at Oroszvar Castle . He was buried in the Kohary Crypt in the monastery church of Hronský Beňadik .

progeny

• Franz Seraph (December 21, 1792 - April 19, 1798)
• Maria Antonia (born July 2, 1797 in Budapest, † September 25, 1862 in Vienna)

Trivia

According to an old folk tale, the extinction of the name Koháry can be justified as follows: Franz de Paula was a passionate hunter - in the ancestral castle of his family in Antol , western Slovakia, which the count himself only used as a hunting lodge, there are around a thousand hunting trophies. The animals of the forest wanted revenge for his lavish hunts and animal killings and therefore stole his daughter. A court was held and the final verdict was as follows: “The daughter is to be sent back home. But Koháry should not have male heirs as a punishment - the sex dies after the sword. ”The judgment came true, because the son Franz Josef, born in 1792, died at the age of six.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Koháry, Franz Joseph Fürst . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 12th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1864, p. 281 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Ferenc József Koháry  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.sachsen-coburg-gotha.de/?Das_Herzogshaus:Geschichte:Heiratspektiven
2. ↑ August Wilpert: Brief history of the catholic, so-called "Koháry" line of the ducal house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Munich 1990, http://gateway-bayern.de/BV014584282
3. ↑ Jurende's patriotic pilgrims: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially dedicated to all nature and fatherland friends, volume 25

predecessor	Office	successor
Ignaz Joseph Koháry	Majority ruler of the Koháry family (from 1831 Saxe-Coburg-Koháry ) 1777–1826	Ferdinand Georg of Saxe-Coburg-Koháry