Johann Leopold Grabner zu Rosenburg

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Johann (Hans) Leopold Grabner zu Rosenburg (* in the 16th century ; † before 1610 ) was a nobleman of the Duchy of Austria under the Enns .

biography

Coat of arms of the Grabner zu Rosenberg (Rosenburg) Memento mori of Johann Leopold Grabner zu Rosenburg on his coffin
Coat of arms of the Grabner zu Rosenberg (Rosenburg)
Memento mori of Johann Leopold Grabner zu Rosenburg on his coffin

family

Johann Leopold Grabner was a son of Sebastian Grabner zu Rosenburg from the Second Lower Austrian line of Grabner zu Rosenburg of the widely ramified lords of Graben and Johanna von Polheim . In the course of the 16th and early 17th centuries, the Grabners were among the richest and most respected families in Austria.

The Polheim family was related to the most important families of the Habsburg Monarchy and beyond; so his mother came from the house of Öttingen via her grandmother Elisabeth Countess von Öttingen (* 1503) , and via her great-grandmother Johanna von Borsselen, Countess von der Veer (* 1476; † 1509) of the families Borsselen and Bourbon-Montpensier , descendants of King Ludwig the saint of France.

Grabner's uncles came from the families of Althann , Abensberg-Traun and Salm ; through his sister Maria Grabner von Rosenburg (1589–1623) he was related by marriage to Johann Ludwig Graf von Kuefstein , a diplomat and novel translator of the Baroque period.

activity

Grabner's family was one of the leading Protestant families in the country during the Reformation . Together with his father, Johann Leopold was one of the signatories of the Horner Bund , the union of the Protestant estates of Lower Austria, Moravia and Upper Austria.

Johann Leopold Grabner died while traveling, still unmarried before his father. The copper engraving on his grave plaque shows him to be the last of his sex, which is not correct, because the Grabner family was continued by his younger brother Friedrich Christoph Grabner zu Rosenburg .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schauplatz des Nieder-Oesterreichischen Nobility from ..., Volume 3, p. 371; by Franz Karl Wißgrill
  2. ^ A b General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts, Volume 77, pp. 220–222 (Leipzig 1864)
personal data
SURNAME Grabner zu Rosenburg, Johann Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grabner, Johann Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant nobleman, signatory of the Horner Bund
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH before 1610