Johann Franz Heinrich Carl von Ostein

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Count Johann Franz Heinrich Carl Sebastian von Ostein (born February 2, 1693 in Amorbach , † April 29, 1742 in Frankfurt ) was a German lawyer, an Imperial Real Privy Councilor and temporarily Imperial Ambassador.

family

father

His father was Johann Franz Sebastian von Ostein (born November 4, 1652 in Pruntrut , † June 24, 1718 in Aschaffenburg ). One of his ancestors was Johann Heinrich von Ostein (* 1579; † November 26, 1646 in Delsberg ) since 1628 Bishop of Basel (during the Thirty Years War ); Due to the Reformation of the city of Basel , the official seat of the prince-bishop was relocated to Pruntrut as early as 1527, hence his place of birth. He himself was a privy councilor, chamberlain, chamberlain and senior bailiff in Amorbach , Buchau , Walldürn and Selingenthal.

Johann Franz Sebastian von Ostein sold his inherited goods along with the Ostein family castle, which had been destroyed in the Thirty Years War, to the Antoniter Commandery in Isenheim in Alsace . In 1710 he bought an estate located in the Kingdom of Bohemia , the Maleschau dominion (today Maselow), for 400,000 guilders . He also acquired the lands of the Electoral Mainz Castle Ehrenfels ( Hesse ) used as coppice . This former toll castle was destroyed by the French after it was conquered and before their retreat in 1689 in the course of the Palatinate War of Succession . The ruin was given up by the Mainz cathedral chapter and their economic forest was for sale. In 1693 parts of the property and then again in 1705 the rest of the property went to Johann Franz Sebastian von Ostein.

mother

His father married 16-year-old Anna Karolina Maria von Schönborn on June 12, 1687 at the age of 35 (* October 3, 1671; † February 7, 1746 in Aschaffenburg ). She was 75 years old. She was one of 18 children of the influential Electoral Mainz State Minister Melchior Friedrich von Schönborn-Buchheim. Her siblings were among others

siblings

Although his parents fathered 18 children, of which only half, namely 9 children, survived their father, his generation belonged to the penultimate name bearers of this noble family "von Ostein". The "von Ostein " family died out with his children .

  • 1. Johann Friedrich Karl (born July 6, 1689 in Amorbach ; † June 4, 1763) was 74 years old and was elector and archbishop of Mainz for the last 20 years (from 1743)
  • 2. Ludwig Karl Johann Eckenbert (* August 6, 1691 - October 10, 1734) was 43 years old. He was electoral Mainz and episcopal Bamberg privy councilor and chamber president
  • 3. Johann Franz Heinrich Carl (* February 2, 1693; † April 29, 1742) himself. He was 51 years old.
  • 4. Johann Franz Wolfgang Damian (born May 3, 1694 - † January 5, 1778) was 84 years old. He was Kurmainzer Oberamtmann, Reichsgraf, cathedral capitular in Bamberg
  • 5. Lothar Johann Hugo Franz (* June 21, 1695 - † February 27, 1759) was 64 years old. He was Canon of Eichstätt and Augsburg , electoral Mainz, princely Augsburg and Eichstadt and Fulda privy councilor
  • 6. Johann Philipp Karl Franz (born October 3, 1697 - † December 9, 1719 in Paris ) was only 22 years old. He was Canon of Trier and Liège
  • 7. Maria Anna Charlotta Franziska (* October 3, 1698 - † May 5, 1766) was 68 years old and died unmarried.
  • 8. Ludwig Wilhelm Johann Maximilian (* December 6, 1705; † August 29, 1757 in Vienna ) was 52 years old. He was the commander of the Mainz cavalry, Reich General Field Marshal Lieutenant in 1750 and died unmarried.
  • 9. Maria Antonia Franziska (born June 8, 1710 - † October 8, 1788 in Koblenz ) was 78 years old. She married Count Rudolf Johann Walpot von Bassenheim on June 30, 1726 , who died five years later on June 29, 1731. Her brother and Elector Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein had the Bassenheimer Hof built for her as a widow's residence in Mainz . A grandson of hers fought for a significant part of the inheritance of the then extinct family "von Ostein".

Life

He had a legal education and was appointed Reichshofrat in 1725 . For five years from October 1734 to January 29, 1739 he was ambassador to the Russian court in St. Petersburg for Emperor Charles VI. and later briefly at the royal English court, first in Hanover then in London. Shortly before his death in 1741 he became President of the Reichshof Council in Frankfurt am Main . In 1728 he bought the Datschitz estate, including the castle of the same name, from Count Franz Maximilian zu Fürstenberg in the southernmost tip of the margraviate of Moravia for 430,000 guilders . Already his father Johann Franz Sebastian von Ostein acquired in 1710 for 400,000 guilders a rule Maleschau located in the Kingdom of Bohemia near the royal silver mining town Kuttenberg and the nearby market town Suchdol from Count Franz Anton von Sporck (1662-1738). The purchase included the fortress and the Maselov Castle, as well as the Roztěž hunting castle built in 1669 by Count Johann von Sporck . Admission to the Bohemian count class was also associated with the acquisition. This castle, later rebuilt in Empire style by one of his heirs , then fell into disrepair after World War II and was acquired by the Czech Republic in 2002 by the Taiwanese billionaire Terry Gou , CEO of Foxconn , and renovated for many millions. The park has been transformed into a top golf course.

First wife

His first wife Maria Carolina Anna Johanna, widowed Countess von Berlepsch and heiress of Myllendonk (* 1707, † 1737 in St. Petersburg ), was 14 years younger than him. She died in St. Petersburg shortly after giving birth to her third child. At the husband's request, her body was transferred to Datschitz Castle and buried in the local parish church.

Her significant legacy Myllendonk , which then passed through her husband to the son Johann Friedrich Carl Maximilian Amor Graf von Ostein, came from Spanish sources of her grandmother Marie Gertrude Freifrau, Countess von Berlepsch (1654–1723) and later prince abbess. As a young widow she accompanied the chosen future second wife Karl II of Spain Maria Anna von Pfalz-Neuburg (1667-1740) to her wedding. On May 4, 1690, she married the childless King Charles II of Spain in the monastery of San Diego near Valladolid as his second wife at the instigation of his mother Maria Anna of Austria . Charles II never developed a liking for his second wife. By marriage she became Queen of Spain , Naples , Sicily and Sardinia and Duchess of Milan . After the death of her husband, Maria Anna first lived in Toledo with her confessor Gabriel and her confidante Marie Gertrude Freifrau, Countess von Berlepsch, who were significantly involved in Maria Anna's government . Karl Marx described their effects. At the end of the same century, under the reign of Carlos II, the people of Madrid rose against the queen's camarilla , made up of the Countess von Berlepsch and the Counts Oropesa and Melgar, who imposed an oppressive duty on all food brought to Madrid shared among themselves. In 1699 Marie Gertrude Freifrau, Countess von Berlepsch, bought the Myllendonk estate from the Count of Croy .

Children from first marriage

He had three children with his first wife, Maria Carolina Anna Johanna

  • Johanne Maria Charlotte Friderica (born November 25, 1733 in Vienna ; † 1809) married the influential Austrian statesman Carl Friedrich Anton Graf Hatzfeldt zu Gleichen on November 16, 1755 (born September 14, 1718 in Vienna; † September 5, 1793 there).
  • Johann Friedrich Carl Maximilian Amor Graf von Ostein (* 1735 in St. Petersburg, † 1809 in Aschaffenburg ). He was the last bearer of the name of the formerly many-headed noble family,
  • Johann Carl Franz Hugo Maria (* 1736 in St. Petersburg, † 1736 there)

Second wife

Almost 1 year before his death on April 29, 1742 in Frankfurt am Main , he married a second time in 1741. His second wife was Maria Clara Elisabeth von Eltz , who after a short marriage lived 45 years as a widow and died on June 13, 1786. He married into the family of the then ruling Elector and Archbishop of Mainz and Imperial Arch Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation Philipp Karl von Eltz (born October 26, 1665, † March 21, 1743 in Mainz). His stepmother became Maria Clara Elisabeth von Eltz-Kempenich (* October 15, 1720, † June 13, 1786). Her sister Anna Sophia (1722–1763) was the wife of the Electorate Mainz Privy Councilor Franz Heinrich von Dalberg (1716–1776), Burgrave of Friedberg , governor in Worms and Oberamtmann of Oppenheim . Franz Heinrich von Dalberg and Anna Sophia von Eltz-Kempenich were u. a. the parents of Carl Theodor Reichsfreiherr von Dalberg (* February 8, 1744 at Herrnsheim Castle near Worms; † February 10, 1817 in Regensburg ), the Prince Primate of Germany appointed by Napoleon in 1806 and the chairman of the Rhine Confederation.

Second marriage children

Philipp Franz Karl (born June 22, 1742; † July 7, 1766) was only born after the death of his father. He died at the age of 24 as canon of Mainz, Trier and Würzburg, capitular of the knight's monastery of St. Alban in Mainz and provost of the St. Bartholomew's monastery in Frankfurt am Main.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catherine Bosshart-Pfluger: Ostein, Johann Heinrich von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
predecessor Office successor
Nikolaus von Hochholzer Austrian envoy in Saint Petersburg
1734–1738 		Antoniotto Botta Adorno
Ignaz Johann von Wasner Austrian envoy in London
1740–1741 		Anton von Zöhrern
personal data
SURNAME Ostein, Johann Franz Heinrich Carl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ostein, Johann Franz Heinrich Carl Sebastian von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, imperial real secret council and temporarily imperial ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1693
PLACE OF BIRTH Amorbach
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1742
Place of death Frankfurt