Friedrich Rudolf (Fürstenberg-Stühlingen)

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Grave plate of Count Friedrich Rudolf von Fürstenberg-Stühlingen in the church of the former Capuchin monastery in Haslach

Friedrich Rudolf von Fürstenberg-Meßkirch (born April 23, 1602 in Blumberg ; † October 26, 1655 in Datschitz ) was Count von Fürstenberg , Landgrave of Stühlingen , Court War Councilor, Oberststallmeister and Oberstfeldzeugmeister of the imperial army.

Origin and family

Friedrich Rudolf was the son of Count Christoph II von Fürstenberg (1580–1614) and Dorothea Freiin von Sternberg . In 1631 he married Maria Maximiliana von Pappenheim († 1635), a daughter of Reichserbmarschall Maximilian von Pappenheim . With her he had a son:

  • Maximilian Franz (1634–1681)

A second son, Heinrich Friedrich, died on the day of his birth and his mother also died at this birth.

In his second marriage in 1636 he married Anna Magdalena von Hanau-Lichtenberg with whom he had the following children:

  • Franz (*, † 1636)
  • Ferdinand Anselm (July 17, 1637; † 1637)
  • Marie Franziska (* August 7, 1638; † August 24, 1680), married on July 11, 1655 to Prince Hermann Egon von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (* November 5, 1627; † September 10, 1674)
  • Leopold Adam Ludwig (6 May 1642 - 13 August 1643)
  • Katharina Elisabeth (* April 27, 1643; † 1643)

Life

Friedrich Rudolf studied in Freiburg. He was said to have had an affair with his cousin's wife, Jakob Ludwig. This Helene Eleonora von Schwendi was the granddaughter of Lazarus von Schwendi . Friedrich Rudolf was held prisoner at Wartenberg Castle for 6 months . After his flight to Bohemia, he asked the emperor to make amends. An investigation by the Elector of Bavaria Maximilian , who was commissioned to do so , never came to a conclusion and the matter remained unsolved. Friedrich Ludwig was nevertheless able to become chamberlain and imperial court counselor at the imperial court. He also advanced at the Munich court and rose to the rank of major general. He was employed as a diplomat and as a secret courier between Wallenstein and the Viennese court. In 1638 he also received a military command in the campaign of Savelli and Werth to relieve the city and fortress of Rheinfelden. After the battle of Rheinfelden he was exposed to severe hostility from the other imperial officers because of his behavior. Nevertheless, on March 6, 1639, he was appointed a member of the Court War Council in Vienna . Shortly before, his father-in-law, Maximilian von Pappenheim, had died and had bequeathed the Landgraviate of Stühlingen to his grandson, Friedrich Rudolf's son. Friedrich Rudolf took possession of it, although the Pappenheimers, the Habsburgs and the Fürstenbergers from the Heiligenberg line also made claims. Furthermore, Friedrich Rudolf inherited from his aunt, Hippolyta Frantiska von Berka von Dubá and Leipa (née von Fürstenberg) possessions in Bohemia (Datschitz, Budischau , Neu Wessely , Rossitz , Statina and Markwaretz). On November 10, 1642 he was awarded the great Palatinate and in 1651 he was appointed Imperial Colonel Feldzeugmeister.

When Swedish troops conquered the Lesser Town of Prague in the summer of 1648 , Friedrich Rudolf was captured by the commander in Swedish service, Hans Christoph von Königsmarck , and only released after paying a large ransom. The ransom had to be raised by his subjects in the Kinzig valley , who had already been heavily burdened by supplying the imperial occupation in Offenburg .

On October 26, 1655 Friedrich Rudolf died during a stay in his Bohemian estate Datschitz of the consequences of a persistent whooping cough . His entrails were buried in Datschitz, while the rest of the body was buried in the Haslach Capuchin monastery in Haslach in the Kinzig valley , which the count had built from 1630 to 1632. A grave slab there commemorates the count.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry Fürstenberg-Mößkirch (Fürstenberger), Friedrich Rudolf Graf von on www.30jaehrigerkrieg.de; accessed on January 6, 2019
  2. ↑ Stramberg p. 509. ( Google digitized version )
  3. ^ Entry Fürstenberg, Maximilian Franz at the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
  4. ↑ see Martin Ruch: "Der liebe Friden who das best" - Secret post of the Prince of Fürstenberg 1647 in the Kinzig valley. In: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Middle Baden, 95th annual volume. 2015, pp. 285–294. ( Digitized version of the Freiburg University Library )
  5. ^ Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Offenburg , Tübingen 1908, p. 601. ( in the Internet Archive )
predecessor Office successor
Maximilian von Pappenheim Landgrave of Stühlingen
1639–1655 		Maximilian Franz
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fürstenberg-Mößkirch, Friedrich Rudolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count von Fürstenberg and Imperial Colonel Feldzeugmeister
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1602
PLACE OF BIRTH Blumberg
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1655
Place of death Datschitz