Joseph Franz von Kesselstatt

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Joseph Franz von Kesselstatt

Johann Joseph Franz von Kesselstatt (* December 22, 1695 , † September 25, 1750 in Mainz ) was a baron , diplomat and canon in the electorates of Mainz and Trier .

Origin and family

The von Kesselstatt noble family originally came from the Hessian area, whose parent house of the same name was near Kesselstadt and moved to the Trier area in the 14th century. The family line produced numerous personalities who held important positions in church and state. Joseph Franz was born as the son of Colonel stable master Casimir Friedrich von Kesselstadt (1664–1729) and his wife Anna Maria Klara von Metternich , daughter of Wolfgang Heinrich Freiherr von Metternich-Burscheid. After his death in 1790 Kasimir inherited a considerable fortune, including the lordships of Lösnich , Bruch and Bitburg. His entire fortune was put at over 100,000 Reichstaler. That corresponded to about half of the expenditure of the electorate state budget of 1714. Joseph Franz had two brothers, Carl Friedrich Melchior (1692–1751, ⚭ 1718 Maria Isabella Raitz von Frentz ) and Johann Hugo Wolfgang (1691–1730, Provost of Trier), as well the sisters Maria Charlotte (1693–1757, ⚭ Franz Philipp Wambolt von Umstadt ) and Maria Clara (⚭ 1718 Johann Philipp von Hohenfeld). Joseph's paternal grandmother, Anna Antonetta von Orsbeck, was the eldest sister of the Trier Elector and Speyer Bishop Johann Hugo von Orsbeck ; the maternal grandmother, Anna Margaretha von Metternich geb. von Schönborn , a daughter of Philipp Erwein von Schönborn (1607–1668) and sister of the Mainz Elector Lothar Franz von Schönborn . Bishop Orsbeck, the last male offspring of his family, had decreed in his will in 1711 that his family coat of arms should be united with that of the Kesselstatt - the descendants of his sister.

Life

Joseph Franz von Kesselstatt with the combined family arms Orsbeck and Kesselstatt (heart shield)

The family resided at Föhren Castle near Trier . Six of the mother's sisters were nuns, one of them, Maria Ursula von Metternich († 1727), abbess of the Machern monastery . Joseph Franz embarked on a spiritual career and studied in Mainz , Paris , and Rome . From 1725 he officiated as dean of the cathedral in Mainz; In 1729 he became cathedral capitular , in 1743 cathedral provost in Trier and was also a member of the collegiate chapter of St. Alban before Mainz . In addition, Kesselstadt was archpriest of the diocese of Mainz and dean of St. Ferrutius Stift zu Bleidenstadt . From 1729 the canon worked as a privy councilor in the government of the Electorate of Mainz , and from 1732 also as president of the court council. In 1732 he commissioned the architect Johann Valentin Thomann to build an orangery not far from the Bekonder Castle .

In the complicated Mainz bishopric election of 1743, Joseph Franz von Kesselstatt was considered a promising candidate, but Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein († 1763) was chosen as a compromise solution .

For the election or coronation of Franz Stephen of Lorraine as German Emperor in 1745, Kesselstatt was the authorized ambassador of the Elector of Mainz in Frankfurt am Main . Adolf Karl Michels characterizes Joseph Franz von Kesselstatt 1930, in a biography of Archbishop Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein, as the "most outstanding Kurmainzer diplomat" of his time.

literature

  • Susanne Schlösser: The Arch Chancellor of Mainz in the dispute between the Houses of Habsburg and Wittelsbach over the Empire 1740–1745 , Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1986, p. 16, footnote 72, ISBN 3515045953 , (detail scan )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Coat of Arms website
  2. ↑ Website on Schloss Föhren with names of parents
  3. ^ Johann Friedrich Schannat : Eiflia illustrata , Volume 2, 1st section, p. 55, Aachen, 1829; (Digital scan)
  4. ^ Website of the Machern Monastery
  5. ^ François Decker: Regesten des Archiv der Herren von Bourscheid , Volume 6 (1700–1727), Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, 1996, p. 29, footnote 378, ISBN 3931014312 ; (Detail scan)
  6. ↑ Well known castle becomes a wine academy
  7. ^ Website of Castle Bekond
  8. ^ Adolf Karl Michels: The election of Count Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein as elector and archbishop of Mainz (1743) , 1930, p. 16; (Detail scan)
  9. ^ Adolf Karl Michels: The election of Count Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein as elector and archbishop of Mainz (1743) , 1930, p. 16; (Detail scan)
personal data
SURNAME Kesselstatt, Joseph Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kesselstatt, Johann Joseph Franz von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baron, diplomat and Canon in the Electorates of Mainz and Trier
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1695
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1750
Place of death Mainz