Jan Anton Losy from Losinthal

This article covers the noble born in 1600. For the composer see Johann Anton Losy von Losinthal

Jan Anton Losy von Losinthal (also Johann Anton Losy Count von Losinthal ; Czech Jan Antonín Losy hrabě z Losinthalu ; * 1600 ; † July 27, 1682 in Prague ) was a Bohemian nobleman.

origin

The Losy (also Logi, Losi ) were a family from South Tyrol, from which Johann Anton Losi came to Bohemia in the early 17th century in imperial service. His parents were Thomas Losy de Losis and a née de Mora ( de Rubielos ). The Losi de Losis are said to come from a Swiss noble family from Poschiavo in the canton of Graubünden or from Piuro near Chiavenna.

Life

Johann Anton Losy was on July 12, 1647 Klattau the rating "of Losinthal" in the Bohemian knighthood collected, received on 12 December 1648 Jan Antonín Losy the Inkolat and October 15, 1655 Ebersdorf Bohemian confirmation of meanwhile attained imperial count status . As a count of Losimthal, he belonged to the Bohemian gentry . He was a royal Bohemian collector of casks and salt minister, then court chamberlain in Prague and supervised the wine, salt and beer income. In 1648 he acquired the Steken rule and in 1652 Stenitz .

In 1664, Count Losy von Losinthal bought a large part of the indebted manor Tachau from the daughters of the heir Johann Philipp Husmann, who died in 1651 . He then financed the construction of the monastery church in Heiligen bei Tachau, which Johann Philipp Husmann had already started . He had the old Tachau Castle converted into a palace as a family seat. He also financed the extensive renovation of the Tachau Franciscan monastery at the end of the 17th century . The Counts Losy von Losimthal owned the Tachau manor for three generations until the male line of the family died out in 1781.

Family and loved ones

Johann Anton Count Losy von Losimthal was married to Anna Constanze Koller von Lerchenreith and Gru (e] begg near Bad Mitterndorf . She was a daughter of the Styrian regimental chancellor Bartholomäus Koller zu Lerchenreith and Elisabeth, née Gru (e) ber von Grubegg, daughter of one Hammer crafts and tradesman. The marriage had two sons and two daughters:

1. Johann Anton the Younger ("Graf Logi") (* around 1645, † 1721 in Prague), in Tachau, Winternitz and Stienitz, imperial chamberlain and privy councilor, well-known lute player and composer, also imperial music director at the Viennese court. He was married to Franziska Klaudia Countess von Strassoldo. Their son Adam Philipp was married to Maria Ernestine Countess Fuchs von Bimbach and Dornheim. He was the imperial general building and music director in Vienna and president of the Lower Austrian provincial government and died on April 21, 1781 as the last bearer of the name of Count Losy von Losimthal.

2. Johann Baptist, on Stecken, Rzepicz and Czenicz, died unmarried

3. Maria Theresa (* 1659, † February 27, 1695 in Prague) was married to Ferdinand Christoph Ritter Scheidler von Czeidler , on Liboch, Sukorad, Ober-Berzkowicz, Weltrus and Jeniowes, who held the office of provincial chamberlain and the royal captain of the Prague Lesser Town Dressed. The marriage had six daughters.

4. Anna Konstance († August 18, 1696 in Radenin near Tachau), was married to Johann Georg Leopold Freiherr von Sporck, auf Radenin and Chaustnik, who died in Chaustnik on February 14, 1705. The marriage had three daughters.

After the death of Johann Anton d. Ä. Count of Losimthal extended his son Johann Anton Losy von Losinthal the Tachau lordship by some lordships, which his son Adam Philipp Losy von Losinthal took over in 1721 . Since he died without any legitimate offspring, a lawsuit arose among the beneficiaries. The rule of Tachau was acquired by Imperial Count Joseph-Niklas zu Windisch-Graetz in 1781 .

literature

• Procházka novel : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian noble families. Neustadt an der Aisch 1973, ISBN 3-7686-5002-2 , pp. 170f. (Lineage Losy von Losimthal ( Losi von Losinthal, Logi ) with a description of the coat of arms)
• The coats of arms of the Bohemian nobility . J. Siebmacher's large book of arms. Volume 30, Neustadt an der Aisch 1979, ISBN 3-87947-030-8 , p. 144, coat of arms p. 67.
• Gottfried Johann Dlabacz: General historical artist lexicon for Bohemia and partly also Moravia and Silesia. G. Haase, Prague 1815.
• Diary of Prince Johann Joseph Khevenhüller-Metsch , Obersthofmeister, 1742–1776. published by the Society for Modern History of Austria. Vienna / Leipzig 1917, volume 5, p. 151.
• Zdeněk Procházka : Tachov město, Historicko-turistický průvodce. 1997, ISBN 80-901877-4-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bohemian Country Table Hall Books, Volume LIX, p. 343.
2. ↑ Landtafel Saalbücher, Volume LIX, p. 468.
3. ↑ Landtafel Saalbücher, Volume LXV, p. 501.
4. ↑ Sporck (baronial house). In: Roman von Procházka : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian noble families. Neustadt an der Aisch 1973, ISBN 3-7686-5002-2 , p. 295.