Franz Joseph von Wiser
Franz Joseph von Wiser , often also von Wieser (born April 3, 1679 , † August 25, 1755 ) was an imperial count and high Palatinate official, as well as local lord in Siegelsbach and Friedelsheim .
Live and act
Origin and family
Ferdinand Andreas von Wiser came from the originally Protestant, Lower Austrian noble family of the Counts of Wiser , who from the 17th century served the Wittelsbach family branch Pfalz-Neuburg , who had returned to the Catholic faith and took over rule in the Electoral Palatinate in 1685 . As a result of these events, the von Wiser family converted to the Catholic Church.
Franz Joseph was the son of the Palatinate-Neuburg President of the Privy Council and later Court Chancellor Franz Melchior von Wiser (1651–1702) and his wife Maria Walburga von Gradeneck, who was raised to the rank of imperial count . The family only came to the Electoral Palatinate when the Palatinate-Neuburg Wittelsbach family took over and later settled here permanently. The father Franz Melchior von Wiser (1651–1702) was the most influential advisor to Elector Johann Wilhelm in all questions of the Palatinate domestic and foreign policy.
Ferdinand Andreas von Wiser (1677–1751), the parents' eldest son, founded the Wiser-Leutershausen family line (also Weiß-Wiser).
Sovereign and civil servant
Franz Joseph was the younger son of the parents and founded the Wiser-Siegelsbach (also Schwarz-Wiser) family branch.
From the inheritance of his father, who died in 1702, Franz Joseph von Wiser received the lordship of Siegelsbach and Friedelsheim as well as parts of Ober- and Untergimpern after the inheritance of 1709 . He had the Siegelsbach Castle and Friedelsheim Castle built from the previous buildings. He resided alternately at both mansions. As sovereign he made sustained efforts to restore the Catholic religion, which led to violent entanglements and disputes in the predominantly Protestant areas.
Between 1703 and 1710 the count acted as the Electorate of the Palatinate court vice-chancellor, making the court chancellery subordinate to him, and he was also a privy councilor and burgrave of Heidelberg. As the successor to his brother Ferdinand Andreas, Franz Joseph von Wiser held the position of Oberamtmann or Vice-Cathedral of Kaiserslautern between 1703 and 1721 , of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse from 1721 to 1743 and of Heidelberg until his death in 1743 .
Marriage and offspring
On July 17, 1709, the count and sovereign Anna Lucia von Alten († 1726) married. They had several children, including a .:
- Friedrich Joseph von Wiser (1714–1775), Herr von Siegelsbach ∞ Johanna Agathe von Schweitzer (1734–1807). Her daughter Sophie Aloysia Agathe became the wife of the Bavarian Field Marshal Carl Philipp Joseph von Wrede .
- Carl Joseph († 1770), Lord of Friedelsheim ∞ Elisabeth Dorothea von Degenfeld-Schomberg (1718–1771). They became known regionally, through their flight and love marriage against the will of the bride's parents.
- Maria Luise (1710–1773) ∞ with Count Georg Ernst Ludwig von Leiningen-Westerburg (1718–1765), son of Count Georg II. Karl Ludwig von Leiningen-Westerburg (1666–1726) and great-uncle of Lieutenant Field Marshal August Georg zu Leiningen-Westerburg -Neuleiningen (1770-1849)
- Luise Polyxena Maria Anna (1711–1786) ∞ with Bernhard Alexander von Limburg-Styrum (1698–1758), son of Moritz Hermann von Limburg-Styrum
death
Franz Joseph von Wiser died in 1755 and was buried in the Carmelite Church in Heidelberg , where his wife was also resting. The church was secularized in 1803 and the dead buried there were transferred to the monastery garden. A marble monument of the couple, which presumably comes from the demolished Carmelite Church, stands today on the grounds of Schloss Wiser zu Leutershausen on Bergstrasse . Her grave inscriptions are recorded in the compilation “ Thesaurus Palatinus ” by Johann Franz Capellini von Wickenburg . According to this epitaph, Count von Wiser was also a Knight of the Order of St. Stephen , the highest honor in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany .
Web links
- Wiser . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition (1857-1865). Altenburg ( zeno.org ).
- Genealogical page about the person
- Data page of the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: German count houses of the present: In heraldischer, historical and genealogical relation , Volume 2, p. 680, Leipzig, 1853; Information on parents
- ^ Website Chronik von Friedelsheim ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Johann Goswin Widder : Attempt for a complete geographical-historical description of the electoral Palatinate on the Rheine , Volume 4, p. 183, Frankfurt, 1788; (Digital scan)
- ^ Theodor Thomas Karst: The Electoral Palatinate Oberamt Neustadt an der Haardt , 1960, p. 159; (Detail scan)
- ^ Johann Goswin Widder: Attempt for a complete geographical-historical description of the electoral Palatinate on the Rheine , Volume 1, p. 84, Frankfurt, 1786; (Digital scan)
- ↑ PDF document on the couple's story ( Memento from July 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Genealogical page about the couple
- ^ Genealogical page on the Leininger family connections
- ↑ Website for the Carmelite Church in Heidelberg
- ↑ Website about the burial place in the Heidelberg Carmelite Church
- ↑ Die Kunstdenkmäler Baden , Volume 10, Edition 3, 1967, p. 277; (Detail scan)
- ↑ Definition of terms for the Thesaurus Palatinus
- ↑ Digital scan of the epitaph (p. 78)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiser, Franz Joseph von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wieser, Franz Joseph von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Electoral Palatinate court official and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1679 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1755 |