Johann Joseph Franz von Aham

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Johann Joseph Franz Graf von Aham (* December 27, 1652 ; † April 2, 1725 ) was an old Bavarian landowner and civil servant and a member of the Braunau parliament .

Life

Around 1672, Aham studied law at the University of Würzburg . From his father he inherited the Aham'schen estates in Neuhaus and Geinberg in what is now Upper Austria . From 1681 to around 1700 he was regimental councilor and district judge in Straubing , from around 1700 to 1720 district judge in Mauerkirchen , he was also imperial councilor, electoral Bavarian treasurer, hereditary treasurer of the Passau monastery and commissioner for the Bavarian land and knight tax . The Aham zu Neuhaus line was elevated to the status of imperial count on July 7, 1691 , when Emperor Leopold I issued Johann Joseph Franz and his brother, Auxiliary Bishop Johann Joachim Ignaz, a corresponding diploma and the Aham family coat of arms with the coat of arms the jerk of Tanneck, her maternal relative, united.

During the Bavarian uprising from December 21, 1705 to January 16, 1706 he was a member of the board of directors of the Braunau parliament . Probst reports that Aham received the invitation to the Braunau parliament at his Neuhaus castle, which Johann Alois Jehle had distributed on December 18, 1705 in the Burghausen Rent Office . His castle had been looted by insurgents a few weeks earlier during the siege of Schärding . After the uprising was put down, the Imperial Administration in Bavaria suggested in its investigation report of August 9, 1706 Emperor Joseph I that Count Aham should take care of walled churches "to the horror" . According to Probst, however, this was given back to him.

In 1709 Johann Joseph Franz Graf von Aham donated the body of the catacomb saint Claudius for the Aham's burial chapel in the Reichersberg monastery . It was raised from the Kalixtus catacombs in 1668 and finally came into the possession of the then Auxiliary Bishop of Passau in Vienna, Johann Joachim Ignaz Count of Aham. After his death, his property fell as heir to his brother Johann Joseph Franz, who had the relics brought to his family's burial chapel in Reichersberg.

family

Johann Joseph Franz Graf von Aham came from the old and influential Bavarian aristocratic family of the Aham , which was one of the most important landowners in the area of ​​today's Innviertel and maintained close contacts, especially with the Reichersberg monastery . In 1681 he married Katharina von Franking († 1697) and after her death in 1701 Maria Christina Theresia von Guidebon Cavalchino (1654–1729). Aham had 13 offspring, 8 of whom died in early childhood. Aham himself died on April 2, 1725 in Munich and was buried three days later in the family crypt in the Reichersberg monastery.

literature

  • Konrad Meindl : Genealogical treatise on the old Bavarian noble family of knights, barons and counts of Aham on Hagenau, Wildenau and Neuhaus , in: Negotiations of the Historical Association for Lower Bavaria, Volume 20, 1878, pp. 279-410. For the biography of Johann Joseph Franz von Aham see especially 374–376.
  • Christian Probst: Better to die Bavarian . The Bavarian popular uprising in 1705 and 1706 . Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7991-5970-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Biographical Nobility Repertory
  2. ↑ Meindl, Genealogische Abhandlung, p. 375 and supplement X. Copy of the imperial count diploma from 1691 ibid, p. 386-391.
  3. ↑ Stockinger, Petrus : Saint Claudius, pray for us! On the history of a catacomb saint in Reichersberg Abbey, in: Der Bundschuh. Series of publications Museum Innviertler Volkskundehaus 6 (2003) 29-32
  4. ^ Meindl, Genealogische Abhandlung, p. 375 and supplement X.

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personal data
SURNAME Aham, Johann Joseph Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aham, Count Franz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian nobleman and administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1652
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1725