Franz von Magnis
Franz Graf von Magnis (also Franz de Magni ; Franz Graf von Magnis auf Straßnitz ; Czech František hrabě z Magnis , also hrabě František Magnis ze Strážnice ; * 1598 in Prague ; † December 6, 1652 ibid) was a Bohemian-Moravian nobleman and field marshal . He came from the noble family Magnis ( de Magni ), whose ancestors were based in Lombardy. In 1622 he was raised to the baron , 1629 to the count and 1637 to the hereditary imperial count .
Life
His parents, who both came from a merchant family in Milan, were Constantin de Magni (1527–1606), imperial privy councilor in Vienna, and Octavia (around 1562– after 1616), daughter of Giovanni Paolo Carcassola. In 1588 the parents moved to Prague with their sons Rudolf and Valerian , where the third son Philipp was born in 1590 and finally the youngest son Franz in 1598.
Franz, who was an avid Catholic, served in the ranks of the Imperialists during the Thirty Years' War. Presumably because of his services in the Battle of White Mountain , Ferdinand II raised him to the rank of baron in 1622 . In the same year he and his brother Philipp von Karl von Liechtenstein bought the Bohemian estate Žleby , which the brothers sold to Jan Rudolf Trčka von Lípa in 1629 .
In 1628 he acquired the Straßnitz Castle in Moravia, where he resided. After he had acquired the rule of Straßnitz for 200,000 guilders in 1629, he was raised to the rank of count with the predicate "von Straßnitz". Subsequently, he campaigned for recatholicization in his areas . The Protestant pastor, who had to leave Straßnitz, was replaced by a Catholic one. In 1633 Franz von Magnis called the Piarists who were involved in education and upbringing to Straßnitz, where they founded a grammar school. In 1635 he bought the Keltschan dominion in South Moravia for 3,000 Rhenish guilders .
On June 2, 1637, Ferdinand III. shortly after his accession to the throne, Baron Franz von Magnis became hereditary imperial count . In 1640/41 he held the office of governor of Moravia and from 1646 to 1649 he was governor of the Bohemian Hereditary Principality of Opole - Ratibor , which had been pledged to the Polish royal family since 1645 as a replacement for unpaid dowries of several Austrian princesses who were married to Poland. On February 1, 1649 he was appointed chief judge for Moravia.
In 1648 he donated land to the Capuchin Order on the coal market (now Kapucínské náměstí / Dominican Square ) in Brno . There they built a monastery with the monastery church Discovery of the h. Cross .
Franz von Magnis was married to Johanna Franziska, nee Berger von Berg ( Priska Perg z Pergu ), who had brought the villages of Medlan ( Medlánky ), Sokolnitz and Lösch ( Líšeň ) near Brno into the marriage since 1635 . Since the marriage had remained childless, she determined with a will of February 29, 1654 her assets to found the women's foundation "Maria Schul" ( Nadace Maria Školské ), in which girls of noble origin were to be brought up.
He was buried in the Church of St. Thomas in Brno .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Magnis, Franz Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 16th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1867, p. 271 ( digitized version ).
- Heinz Haushofer: Magnis (Magni), Count v. (catholic). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , pp. 659-661 ( digitized version ).
- Joachim Bahlcke , Winfried Eberhard, Miloslav Polívka (eds.): Handbook of historical places . Volume: Bohemia and Moravia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 329). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-32901-8 , p. 589.
Web links
- Augustin Weltzel: The state officials of the principalities of Opole from 1532 to 1741 . In: Journal of the Association for History and Antiquity of Silesia , Volume 12, 1874, pp. 19-44 online
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://patricus.info/Rodokmeny/Magnis.txt
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated June 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ludwig Petry and Josef Joachim Menzel (eds.): History of Silesia . Vol. 2, ISBN 3-7995-6342-3 , p. 64
- ↑ http://muzeum-straznice.webnode.cz/osobnosti-straznicka/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Magnis, Franz von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Magni, Franz; Magnis auf Straßnitz, Franz Graf von; Magnis, František hrabě z; Magnis ze Strážnice, hrabě; Magno, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Moravian nobleman, field marshal and governor of Moravia and Opole-Ratibor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1598 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1652 |
| Place of death | Prague |