Johann Karl Chotek von Chotkow

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Johann Karl (since 1745) Count Chotek von Chotkowa and Wognin , (born October 29, 1704 in Prague , † November 8, 1787 in Vienna ) was the Bohemian - Austrian court chancellor in the service of the Habsburg monarchy .

origin

Johann Karl Graf Chotek came from the old Bohemian noble family of the Chotek von Chotkow and Wognin from the ancestral seat Chockow near Radnitz ( district of Pilsen ) and was a son of Wenzel Ritter Chotek von, who was raised to the Bohemian baron class in 1702, to the Bohemian count class in 1723 and to the imperial count status in 1745 Chotkow and Wognin (1674–1754), on Bieloschitz and his wife Maria Theresia Scheidler von Scheidlern, on Jeniowes (Jenineves) and Weltrus (Vertusy) near Melnik on the Elbe, who transferred this property to their marriage on October 28, 1698 in Prague closed marriage and thus enabled the social advancement of the Chotek. She was the daughter of Ferdinand Scheidler (Zeidler) von Zeidler called Hofmann , royal captain of the Lesser Town in Prague and treasurer in the Kingdom of Bohemia, and Maria Theresa, née Countess Losy von Losimthal, one of the very wealthy couples in Bohemia at the time.

family

Johann Karl (since 1745), Count Chotek of Chotkowa and Wognin (1704-1787), on Jeniowes and Weltrus , married on May 25, 1740 in Vienna Anna Maria Theresia, born Countess of Kottulinsky Kottulin and Krzizkowitz (born June 17, 1711 Vienna ; † March 26, 1798 ibid), widowed Countess Browne de Hatois, from a family in Silesia and a daughter of Franz Karl Count Kottulinsky von Kottulin and Maria Antonia Countess von Rottal. The son of the couple Johann Karl Graf Chotek and Anna Maria Theresia Countess Chotek was Johann Nepomuk Rudolph Count Chotek von Wognin, born on May 17, 1748 in Vienna and died there on August 26, 1824, in 1802 Oberstburggraf in Prague and president of the gubernial in the Kingdom of Bohemia , 1805 Imperial and Royal Minister of State and Conference, married on May 18, 1772 to Maria Sidonia Countess von Clary-Aldringen , whose marriage had eight children and four of their sons created FOUR LINES of Count Chotek von Wognin.

Johann Karl Graf Chotek had the older brother Rudolph Graf Chotek von Chotkow (1708–1771), 1761–1771 Colonel Chancellor of the Kingdom of Bohemia, founder of the family fideikommiss with the lords of Jeniowes (Jenineves) and Weltrus (Vertusy), his mother's marriage property, through whose possession he received hereditary imperial council dignity in the Austrian manor house and in 1737 married Maria Aloysia Stephanie Countess Kinsky von Wchinitz and Tetau, widowed von Würben (Wrbna) and Freudenthal. They are the grandparents of Ferdinand Maria Chotek von Chotkow (1781–1836), Prince-Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Olomouc in Moravia .

Life

Johann Karl Graf Chotek von Chotkowa and Wognin was the imperial governor of the Upper Palatinate and, as Feldzeugmeister, the imperial general war commissary in Italy, then the Imperial and Royal Directorial Chancellor and Bohemian-Austrian court chancellor, knight of the Order of St. Wenceslas and holder of the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Stephen. In 1753 the Austrian empress gave him Maria Theresa of Habsburg-Lorraine , the Palais Strozzi in Josefstadt (Vienna) , to which he let grow a side wing. Further expansion plans were prevented by the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) and financial difficulties forced him to sell larger parts of the associated garden.

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personal data
SURNAME Chotek von Chotkow, Johann Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chotek von Chotkow, Johann Karl Graf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian-Austrian court chancellor
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1704
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1787
Place of death Vienna