Johann Franz von Trautson

Johann Franz von Trautson , Imperial Count of Falkenstein , Baron of Sprechenstein (* 1609 - March 26, 1663 in Vienna ), Lord of Matrei , Schrofenstein , Bideneck etc. in Tyrol and Lord of Poysbrunn , Laa an der Thaya etc. in Lower Austria, was an Austrian nobleman, statesman and governor of Lower Austria.

origin

Johann Franz von Trautson came from the Trautson family . His father was Paul Sixt III. von Trautson (* around 1548; July 30, 1621), his mother was Susanna Veronika von Meggau (* 1580, † January 15, 1648), sister of Leonhard Helfried von Meggau .

Life

Johann Franz lost his father at the age of 11. He was together with the future Emperor Ferdinand III. raised at the Viennese court. 1634 was the imperial special envoy to Ferdinand of Spain in the Netherlands. From 1637 to 1642 he was Land Marshal of the Lower Austrian Estates, in 1642 he was appointed governor of Lower Austria and remained so until his death. In 1653 he was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece .

family

Johann Franz was married three times and had offspring from all marriages.

• Maximiliana Walburga († 1639), daughter of Count Johann Georg zu Hohenzollern-Hechingen , married on February 10, 1630 in Baden-Baden .
  • Ernst (* 1633, † 1702), Prince-Bishop of Vienna
  • Paul Sixt V. (* 1635, † 1678), diplomat
• Christina Elisabeth, Countess of the Empire of Mansfeld-Bornstedt (* 1621, † 1648), daughter of Wolfgang von Mansfeld , married in 1640 in Vienna.
  • Franz Eusebius von Trautson (* 1642, † 1728), Imperial Count of Falkenstein
• Margarete Freiin von Rappach (* 1621, † 1705), married in 1649 in Vienna.
  • Johann Leopold Donat (* 1659, † 1724), 1st prince of the Trautson family

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see genealogy.euweb.cz