Franz Anton Christoph von Murach

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Franz Anton Christoph von Murach lived in the 2nd half of the 18th century and was in command of the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress .

Life

He was Lieutenant General Field Marshal Elector Trier , Governor of the fortresses Ehrenbreitstein and Koblenz, Commander of a regiment on foot (Colonel), Court War Councilor and Electoral Chamberlain. From 1773 he was a knight of the Electoral Order of the Palatinate Lion , forerunner of the Bavarian Order of Merit . In his travelogues, Johann III Bernoulli reports on a personal encounter with the commandant on September 3, 1769 at the Ehrenbreitstein fortress.

family

Baron Franz Anton Christoph von Murach auf Niedermurach came from the von Murach family , who descended from ministerials at Obermurach Castle . His father was Franz Christoph Anton von Murach , his mother Marie Louise Charlotte von Weitershausen . He was married to Maria Emiliana Christiana von Bastheim , with whom he had a daughter: Clara Elisabetha von Murach , wife of Count Franz Xaver Basselet von La Rosée (born August 21, 1774 in Munich; † January 8, 1829 in Neuburg an der Donau ). The family of the Basselet Count von La Rosée owned the Possenhofen Castle on Lake Starnberg from 1805 to 1834, where the future Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary grew up, known as Sissi .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Bernoulli's collection of short travelogues and other news serving to expand knowledge of countries and people, Volume 16, 1785, page 271

literature