Joseph Silvio Max Piccolomini

Joseph Silvio Piccolomini , "called Max", or Don Giuseppe Silvio Piccolomini (* 1623; † March 6, 1645 with Jankov ) was a patrician of Naples and Siena. He later served in an imperial cuirassier regiment .

biography

He was the fourth child of Don Giovanni Piccolomini , Baron of Scafati, and the Gerolama Lofredo; he came from the branch of Piccolomini , Counts of Celano, and was not - as Weyhe-Einke still believed in 1870 - a direct nephew of the imperial general Octavio Piccolomini . He had adopted Joseph Silvio Max Piccolomini after the untimely death of his father and designated him as his heir. However, the inheritance did not come about because Joseph Silvio "Max" was killed in the battle of Jankau while Octavio was still alive . According to another source, he is said to have been murdered in captivity after the battle.

The otherwise fictional character of Colonel Max Piccolomini in Schiller's Wallenstein is derived from him, who, as Octavio's son, woos Wallenstein's daughter, while the father intrigues against him. In the middle part of the trilogy, The Piccolomini , father and son play the leading roles.

literature

• Arnold von Weyhe-Eimke: The historical personality of Max Piccolomini in Schiller'schen Wallenstein and its end in the battle of Jankau on March 6, 1645 / a historical source study by Arnold von Weyhe-Eimke . Steinhauser & Korb, Pilsen 1870. [The author corrected the genealogical errors in this document in a genealogical article in 1885]
• Arnold von Weyhe-Eimke: The house of the Piccolomini from the families Todeschini and Pieri adopted by Pope Pius II in the Nachod rule in Bohemia. In: Yearbook of the kk heraldic society Adler zu Vienna. Year 1885, pp. 97–107
• HM Richter: The Piccolomini . Lüderitz, Berlin 1874.

Web links

• Genealogy Piccolomini at Mare Nostrum