Jakob Sigismund von Reinach-Steinbrunn

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Joseph Jakob Sigismund von Reinach-Steinbrunn (born August 19, 1683 in Obersteinbrunn , Alsace, † December 16, 1743 in Pruntrut ) was Prince-Bishop of Basel from 1737 to 1743 .

origin

Jakob Sigismund was born as the son of the officer Johann Jakob Kaspar Sigmund Freiherr von Reinach-Steinbrunn († 1693) and Maria Salome Lucia von Pfirt († 1721).

education

Johann Konrad first studied at the Jesuit high school in Pruntrut and from 1703 to 1705 philosophy and theology at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome.

Career

In 1707 he was made a capitular and in 1717 he was ordained a priest . In 1726 he assumed the function of provost of the Basel cathedral chapter and in 1737 he was elected bishop by the cathedral chapter.

The Prince

The unrest in the southern Jura flared up again under Jakob Sigismund. After the Confederation and the Reich did not want to or could not help him with the suppression in the long term, he concluded a treaty with the French King Louis XV in 1739 . for cooperation on security issues. France gladly took the opportunity to interfere in another area of ​​the empire and in 1740 helped suppress the uprising with troops. The prince-bishop then created a new land law for the unrest area Erguel .

literature

  • Joseph Schneller: The Bishops of Basel - a chronological necrology , Zug 1830, p. 81/82

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catherine Bosshart-Pfluger: Reinach, Jakob Sigismund von (Steinbrunn). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book . Volume 1, Winter, Heidelberg 1898, p. 80, online version
predecessor Office successor
Johann Konrad von Reinach-Hirtzbach Bishop of Basel
1737 - 1743 		Josef Wilhelm Rinck von Baldenstein
personal data
SURNAME Reinach-Steinbrunn, Jakob Sigismund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinach-Steinbrunn, Joseph Jakob Sigismund von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince-Bishop of Basel
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1683
PLACE OF BIRTH Obersteinbrunn (Alsace)
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1743
Place of death Pruntrut