Franz Ludwig von Holnstein

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Franz Ludwig von Holnstein

Franz Ludwig von Holnstein (born October 4, 1723 , † May 22, 1780 ) was a Bavarian count, general and natural son of Elector and Emperor Karl Albrecht of Bavaria .

origin

He was the illegitimate son of a love affair between Prince Elector Karl Albrecht of Bavaria and the lady-in-waiting Maria Caroline Charlotte von Ingenheim and from the same liaison had his sister Maria Josepha comtesse de Hochenfels de Bavière, born in 1720, who in 1736 became the general and half-brother of her father , Emmanuel-François-Joseph Comte de Bavière (1695–1747), married.

The mother married in 1723, three days before her confinement, in agreement with Karl Albrecht, the electoral chamberlain , and later chief kitchen master and field marshal lieutenant, Count Hieronymus von Spreti . With him she had 14 children in 26 years of marriage.

Life

Family coat of arms of the Counts of Holnstein, in the middle the so-called bastard beam

On October 4, 1728, Franz Ludwig was legitimized by his father under the surname Graf von Holnstein from Bavaria . He was the first of this noble family, and his descendants did not belong to the Wittelsbach family , but received its coat of arms, merely provided with a so-called bastard beam .

Count Franz Ludwig von Holnstein was educated in Ettal Abbey and then embarked on a military career. In the War of the Austrian Succession he initially acted as the commander of a regiment, from October 1742 as adjutant general to Field Marshal Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff , and in 1753 as sergeant-general in command of two Bavarian regiments that were named after them. At the Seven Years' War , Count Holnstein took 1758-1760 as commander in chief of the Bavarian kingdom quota in part, only with the rank of major general , then as a lieutenant general . In 1760 he resigned from military service.

On May 5, 1760, Franz Ludwig von Holnstein was appointed electoral governor (head of government) of the Upper Palatinate . He took his residence in Amberg Castle , which he also had redesigned. He had previously received the prestigious Palais Holnstein in Munich from his father, today's Archbishop's Palace. In 1768 he was raised to the rank of imperial count and field marshal lieutenant of the imperial army . In Holnstein , where he rarely stayed despite the name he bore, he had a new castle built, which is still (changed) preserved today.

After his death in 1780, he was buried in the Theatine Church in Munich .

family

In 1757 Franz Ludwig von Holnstein married his cousin Anna Maria von Löwenfeld. She was an illegitimate daughter of the Cologne Elector Clemens August I of Bavaria and the Bonn harpist Mechthild Brion.

They had 12 children together; these were:

  • Maria Anna Elisabeth Countess von Holnstein from Bavaria (1759–1798), married to Anton Aloys Bonaventura Freiherr Horneck von Hornberg
  • Maximilian Joseph Count von Holnstein from Bavaria (1760–1838)
  • Friedrich August Graf von Holnstein from Bavaria (1762–1826)
  • Clemens August Franz de Paula Aloys Anton de Padua Andreas Avelin Martin Graf von Holnstein from Bavaria (1763–1814)
  • Josepha Maria Magdalena Walburga Antonia Amalia Apollonia Agatha Countess von Holnstein from Bavaria (1765–1826), married to Ludwig Freiherr Egkher von Kapfing-Lichtenegg
  • Joseph Graf von Holnstein from Bavaria (born January 14, 1766)
  • Ludwig Graf von Holnstein from Bavaria (born March 30, 1767)
  • Sigismund Joseph Marquard Anton von Padua Franz von Paula Graf von Holnstein from Bavaria (1768–1804)
  • Joseph Georg Anton Count von Holnstein from Bavaria (1770–1809)
  • Anna Franziska Xaveria Countess von Holnstein from Bavaria (1772–1809)
  • Franz Xaver Maximilian Anton de Padua Aloys Guido Graf von Holnstein from Bavaria (1773–1834)
  • Maria Amalia Carolina Augusta Franziska de Paula, Countess von Holnstein from Bavaria (1775–1864), married to Christian Adam Freiherr Lochner von Hüttenbach

literature

  • Alfred Wolfsteiner: The Counts of Holnstein from Bavaria , in: Annual report of the Historical Association for Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate and Surroundings , Volume 20, 1993, p. 79 ff

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chenaye-Desbois et Badier: Dictionnaire de la Noblesse , Paris, 1863, column 593; (Digital scan)
  2. ^ Benno Ortmann: History of the old noble house of Spreti origin and Fortblüthe in Ravenna and Bavaria , Nuremberg, 1806, p. 80; (Digital scan)
  3. ^ Website in the "Upper Palatinate Network" on the von Spreti family
  4. ↑ Historical website of Amberg, with its own chapter on Count von Holnstein and the castle he lived in or converted
  5. ↑ Johann Jacob Moser: Latest Reichs-Staats-Handbuch or sufficient news of the state acts that have become publicly known since the Hubertusburger Friden , Frankfurt, 1769, Volume 2, page 119; (Digital scan)
  6. ↑ Matthäus Anders: History of all churches, monasteries and monastery houses in and around Munich , Munich, 1828, p. 43; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Holnstein, Franz Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franz Ludwig Graf von Holnstein from Bavaria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian general and ducal governor, illegitimate offspring from the Wittelsbach family
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1723
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1780