Ignaz Balthasar Rinck von Baldenstein
Ignaz Balthasar Willibald Rinck von Baldenstein (born August 4, 1721 in Delsberg ; † June 30, 1807 in Heitersheim ) (also Ringg von Baldenstein) was the last Grand Prior of the German Grand Priory of the Maltese and Prince of Heitersheim.
Life
Rinck comes from the Basel branch of the Graubünden noble family Rinck von Baldenstein . He was the son of the Prince-Bishop of Saint-Ursanne and later Councilor Josef Wilhelm Rinck von Baldenstein (1672-1752) and his wife Maria Claudia Antonia von Ramschwag , as well as a brother of the Basel Prince-Bishop Josef Wilhelm Rinck von Baldenstein .
In 1734 he was sworn into the Order of Malta and he became a page at the Grand Master in Malta. On May 30, 1753, the Grand Master of the Order Manuel Pinto de Fonseca appointed him Commander of the Johanniterkommende Leuggern . Rinck held this office until 1806.
From 1778 to 1785 he held the office of Grand Bailli in the order. As a result he became Grand Prior of the Grand Priory of Denmark (1785) and Hungary (1787), which belonged to the German tongue of the order. On December 10, 1796, Rinck was elected Grand Prior of the Maltese Grand Priory in Germany, making him Imperial Prince .
During his tenure, the order as a whole and its principality of Heitersheim experienced enormous changes. In 1801 the order lost its holdings on the left bank of the Rhine to France. In 1803 he received compensation on paper for this - the transfer of the Breisgau monasteries, which, however, never took place. His principality, however, now became an imperial estate and thus received the status for which the grand priors had long fought. But mediatization took place as early as 1806 . Rinck was forced to resign and his principality was incorporated into the Electorate of Baden .
He was allowed to live in the castle in Heitersheim even after the end of the Johanniter rule until his death on July 30, 1807 and received a pension of 20,000 guilders per year from the Baden state, with which he was roughly equal to prince-bishops. Rinck is buried in the parish church of Heitersheim.
Honors
The Russian Tsar Paul I awarded him the Alexander Nevsky Order .
Web links
- Veronika Feller-Vest: Rinck, Ignaz Balthasar Willibald (von Baldenstein). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Entry on www.welt-der-wappen.de/Heraldik
Individual evidence
- ↑ The epitaph in the parish church of Heitersheim shows August 4th as the day of death; Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Tübingen and Leipzig, 1904, Vol. 6, Freiburg district, First Abth. - District of Freiburg; P. 420 online
- ↑ Julius Kindler von Knobloch , Othmar Freiherr von Stotzingen: Upper Baden gender book. 3rd volume, Heidelberg 1919, p. 537 online at Heidelberg historical holdings - digital
- ↑ Hermann J. Welti: On the building history of the Johanniterkommende Leuggern in the last three centuries of its existence . In: Argovia - annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau, volume (year): 72 (1960), p. 185 online at retro-seals
- ↑ The medieval Latin name Dacia for Denmark can also be found in the literature .
- ↑ Although he himself - like his predecessors - was an imperial prince, his principality was only a province of Upper Austria until 1803
- ^ Friedrich Cast: Historical and genealogical book of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden , p. 150
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Franz Benedikt Joseph Graf von Reinach zu Fuchsmänningen |
Grand Prior of the German Order of Malta and Prince von Heitersheim 1796–1806 |
no successor |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rinck von Baldenstein, Ignaz Balthasar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rinck von Baldenstein, Ignaz Balthasar Willibald (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | last Grand Prior of the German Grand Priory of the Maltese and Prince of Heitersheim |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 4, 1721 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Delémont |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1807 |
| Place of death | Heitersheim |