Joseph (Fürstenberg-Stühlingen)
Joseph William Ernst of Fürstenberg-Stühlingen (* 13. April 1699 in Augsburg ; † 29. April 1762 in Vienna ) was from 1744 to 1762 the fifth reigning Prince of Fürstenberg and from 1735 to 1740 and from 1742 to 1748 imperial principal commissioner at Perpetual Reichstag to Regensburg .
Life
Joseph was born as the son of Landgrave Prosper von Fürstenberg-Stühlingen (born September 12, 1662 - November 21, 1704) and Countess Sophie von Königsegg-Rothenfels . After the father's early death, his uncles and cousins took over the guardianship - among them Anton Egon .
Joseph began his higher education in 1710 at the Jesuit Academy in Pont-à-Mousson , then continued it in Strasbourg with the study of philosophy and law and finished it in 1718 in Utrecht .
In 1716 - after the Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg line had died out - Joseph and the other male descendants of the Fürstenberg-Mößkirch and Fürstenberg-Stühlingen lines were raised to the rank of imperial prince .
On October 31, 1723, Joseph moved his seat of power from Hohenlupfen Castle near Stühlingen to Donaueschingen Castle in Donaueschingen , which from then on remained the royal seat of the Fürstenbergs. On August 30, 1735 he succeeded his uncle, Froben Ferdinand , in the office of the Imperial Principal Commissioner, for which Emperor Karl VI. appointed.
1739 he was by Emperor Karl VI. appointed Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece .
Maria Theresa removed him from this office in 1740, but in 1742 the newly elected Emperor Charles VII reinstated him. In addition, he became chief steward of the new emperor, which led to his wife being expelled from Bohemia in 1743 after it had been conquered again by Austria.
After the Fürstenberg-Mößkirch line died out, Joseph inherited Karl Friedrich in 1744 and united all of the Fürstenberg lands in Swabia. He organized a uniform state administration and is therefore considered the real founder of the principality.
As a diplomat to Charles VII, Joseph tried several times to bring about peace negotiations between Bavaria and Austria and in 1745 - after the death of Charles VII - he conducted negotiations with the representative of Austria, Count Colloredo , which led to the Peace of Füssen . Joseph was confronted with allegations that he had given in too much in the negotiations with regard to his wife's Bohemian goods.
At the Munich court he was now also chancellor of the newly founded "Society of the Incas" and was nicknamed "the festivals".
The new emperor, Franz von Lothringen , reappointed Joseph as principal commissioner, but gave him baron Karl Joseph von Palm, a faithful of the House of Habsburg, as co-commissioner.
Marriages and offspring
Joseph married through his uncle Froben Ferdinand , the heiress of Pürglitz , Maria Anna von Waldstein (* February 22, 1707; † November 12, 1756), daughter of Count Joseph von Waldstein on June 6, 1723, with whom he had eight children :
- Maria Eleonore (December 15, 1726 - December 16, 1726)
- Joseph Wenzel (March 21, 1728 - June 2, 1783)
- Karl Egon (* May 7, 1729 - July 11, 1787), founder of the Bohemian subsidiary line in Pürglitz ∞ Maria Josepha von Sternberg , → Karl Aloys zu Fürstenberg
- Maria Augusta Josepha (born March 16, 1731; † February 10, 1770), abbess of the monastery of St. George on the Hradschin in Prague
- Maria Henriette Josepha (born March 31, 1732 - † June 4, 1772) ∞ Prince Alexander Ferdinand von Thurn und Taxis
- Maria Emmanuele Sophia (* December 23, 1733 - March 28, 1776), sister of the Carmelite Barefoot Order
- Prosper Maria Franz (March 26, 1735 - April 20, 1735)
- Maria Theresia, Josepha Rosalia (* September 4, 1736 - May 8, 1774), sister of the Ursuline Order
On January 4, 1761, Joseph married the much younger Countess Maria Anna von der Wahl (* September 22, 1736; † March 21, 1808, in Meßkirch); this marriage remained childless.
literature
- Carl Borromäus Alois Fickler: History of the House and Country Fürstenberg , Aachen and Leipzig 1832; Volume 4, pp. 237-267 in Google Book Search
- Hugo Siefert: It is green Bavaria and nothing like the tallest house in Austria - With the help of Donaueschingen, the Peace of Füssen is achieved in 1745 ; in: Schriften der Baar Volume 51, Donaueschingen 2008, pp. 17–30 Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar - 51st Volume 2008 (PDF; 37.8 MB)
Individual references / comments
- ↑ s. Münch p. 239
- ↑ see also List of Knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece # Knights of the Austrian Branch
- ↑ see for this society also the website of the Bavarian radio Freemasons - The Inka Order - a sentimental game ( Memento from July 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Karl Friedrich - himself as imperial prince since 1716 |
Prince of Fürstenberg 1744–1762 |
Joseph Wenzel |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Joseph Wilhelm Ernst zu Fürstenberg-Stühlingen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Imperial Prince and Principal Commissioner at the Reichstag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1699 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1762 |
| Place of death | Vienna |