Friedrich Christoph Grabner zu Rosenburg

Coat of arms Grabner zu Rosenburg (Rosenberg)

Friedrich Christoph Grabner zu Rosenburg (* in the 16th century ; † in the middle of the 17th century ) was a nobleman of the Archduchy of Austria under the Enns , who emigrated to Franconia because of his Protestant creed. Friedrich Christoph Grabner was lord of Rosenburg, Pottenbrunn , Siebenbrunn , Judenau , Schlickendorf in Lower Austria and Joslowitz in Moravia.

Life

ancestry

Friedrich Christoph Grabner was the younger son of Sebastian Grabner zu Rosenburg from the Second Lower Austrian line of Grabner zu Rosenburg, the widely ramified lords of Graben and Johanna von Polheim . In the course of the 16th and early 17th centuries, the Grabners were among the richest and most respected families in Austria.

The Polheim family was related to the most important families of the Habsburg Monarchy and beyond; Friedrich Christoph's mother came from the House of Öttingen via her grandmother Elisabeth Countess von Öttingen (* 1503) , and via her great-grandmother Johanna von Borsselen, Countess von der Veer (* 1476; † 1509) the families Borsselen and Bourbon-Montpensier , descendants of König Louis the Saint of France.

Grabner's uncles came from the families of Althann , Abensberg-Traun and Salm ; Through his sister Maria Grabner von Rosenburg (1589–1623) he was related by marriage to Johann Ludwig Graf von Kuefstein , a diplomat and novel translator of the Baroque era. One of his brothers-in-law was Johann Ludwig Graf von Kuefstein , a diplomat and novel translator of the Baroque era. Friedrich Christoph Grabner married Petronella (or Rosina) Gerhab von Ho (c) henburg, from whose marriage no children arose.

activity

The Grabner zu Rosenburg was one of the leading Protestant families in the country during the Reformation . Since his older brother Johann Leopold Grabner zu Rosenburg died before him, he inherited the great Lower Austrian and Moravian lordships of Pottenbrunn , Siebenbrunn , Judenau and Schlickendorf, respectively, after his father's death . Joslowitz . His father had already had to sell the important rulership of Rosenburg in 1604 to his relatives Jörger von Tollet because of high debt .

Due to the religious conflict, Grabner sold some of his dominions - Pottenbrunn was already confiscated because of his uprising in the conflict - moved to Regensburg in 1618 or 1619 and then to Franconia . When he died childless, he was the last of the line of the Lower Austrian Grabner family.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schauplatz des Nieder-Oesterreichischen Nobility from ..., Volume 3, p. 371; by Franz Karl Wißgrill
2. ↑ General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts, Volume 77, pp. 220–222 (Moravia 1864)
3. ↑ Knetschke: New German nobility-Lexicon, Volume 3, page 611