Karl Joseph von Kuenburg

Karl Joseph von Kuenburg (also Karl Joseph Reichsgraf von Kuenburg ; * May 27, 1686 in Salzburg ; † December 10, 1729 at Schloss Tüßling in Upper Bavaria ) was Prince-Bishop of Seckau in 1723 and Prince-Bishop of Chiemsee from 1723–1729 .

family

Karl Joseph Graf von Kuenburg was Baron von Kuenegg and Lord of Prunsee and Rabenhofen. His father, Imperial Count Johann Joseph, came from the older Ungersbach line of the House of Kuenburg and was the Imperial Privy Councilor and Treasurer and later also the inheritance of the Archbishopric of Salzburg . Countess Josepha Maria von Harrach , who was married to him for the second time, was Karl Joseph's mother. She was a sister of the Salzburg Archbishop Franz Anton von Harrach .

Life

Karl Joseph studied from 1701 in Salzburg, later in Laibach and 1706–1708 in Rome. In 1706 he received benefices to the cathedral chapters of Salzburg and Passau , to which his older brother Maximilian Joseph had previously resigned. In 1710 he was appointed consistorial councilor by his uncle, Archbishop Harrach, and was promoted to president in 1713, the year he was ordained a priest. As early as 1712 he became provost of St. Moritz in Friesach . In 1714 he was elected provost by the Salzburg Cathedral Chapter and in 1715 he became the Archbishopric of Salzburg's Privy Council .

After Seckau Bishop Joseph Dominikus von Lamberg became the 68th Bishop of Passau in 1723, Archbishop Harrach appointed his nephew Karl Joseph von Kuenburg as his successor on April 21, 1723, whereby he was allowed to keep the Salzburg cathedral provost. The episcopal ordination took place on June 6th, 1723. It is not documented whether Kuenburg took possession of his diocese of Seckau at all, since he was nominated for the Chiemsee bishopric on October 4th, 1723 following the death of Bishop Franz Anton Adolph von Wagensperg had become free. After confirmation of December 29, 1723, the inauguration in Herrenchiemsee followed on May 21, 1724 . For this year he is again occupied as President of the Consistorial Council.

During his tenure as Bishop of Chiemsee he convened a synod in St. Johann in Tirol in 1725 , at which the earlier decrees were confirmed and new ones passed. In 1726 he sold the castle farm in Hallein near Salzburg, which was owned by the Chiemsee diocese . After his death on December 10, 1729, which occurred at a wedding of his brother at Tüßling Castle in Upper Bavaria , the rumor arose that he had been poisoned. In fact, he died of typhus . His body was buried in Salzburg Cathedral .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Kuenburg, Karl Joseph Graf von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1865, p. 322 ( digital copy ).
• Erwin Naimer: Kuenburg, Karl Joseph Reichsgraf von (1686–1729) . In: Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1648−1803 , ISBN 3-428-06763-0 , pp. 246–247.

Web links

• Entry about Karl Joseph von Kuenburg on catholic-hierarchy.org