Karoline von Fuchs-Mollard

Countess Fuchs, after Martin van Meytens

Imperial Countess Maria Karolina von Fuchs-Mollard , called "Charlotte", baptismal name "Catharina Charlotta Felicitas Antonia" (born January 14, 1675 in Vienna; † April 27, 1754 in Vienna), was an educator ("Aja") and later chief stewardess on imperial court in Vienna. By Maria Theresa , she was often called "my vixen".

Her parents were Franz Maximilian von Mollard, treasurer and owner of the Palais Mollard in Vienna, and Maria Katharina Thoman von Frankenberg . The lords, barons and counts of Mollard (Mollarth) were a noble Savoy family that had belonged to the gentry since 1571.

Maria Karolina von Mollard came to the imperial court as the lady-in-waiting of Archduchess Maria Anna , daughter of Emperor Leopold I. In 1710 she married Christoph Ernst Fuchs of Bimbach and Dornheim (1664-1719) supported by Emperor in 1705 Joseph in the imperial counts had been raised. The marriage resulted in two daughters, so that the count's line of the Fuchs von Bimbach family died out with them. One of these daughters married the later Field Marshal Leopold Joseph von Daun . Count Fuchs himself was the Würzburg Privy Councilor , colonel , chamberlain , imperial real Privy Councilor and envoy in the Lower Saxony district . He died in Hamburg in 1719 and was buried in Altona.

In 1728 Countess Fuchs was appointed by Empress Elisabeth Christine , the wife of Emperor Charles VI. , appointed educator of the two Archduchesses Maria Theresia and Maria Anna , who were 11 and 10 years old at the time. A friendly relationship developed especially between Archduchess Maria Theresa and the Countess, which extended beyond her time as a teacher.

Fuchsschlössl in Liesing

In 1736, Countess Fuchs was appointed Obersthofmeisterin to Maria Theresa , and she also gave her a small castle in Rodaun , which is now known as the " Fuchsschlössl ". The connection between the two persisted when Maria Theresa took over the reign of the Habsburg hereditary lands in 1740.

At Maria Theresa's express request, the countess was the only non- Habsburg woman to be buried in the Capuchin crypt. On the lid of the coffin , the empress left the inscription “In memory of a benevolent, grateful heart for the noble education of virtue. I, Maria Theresa ”.

Web links

• Entry on Karoline von Fuchs-Mollard in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Karolina von Fuchs-Mollarth, Imperial Countess in the Capuchin Crypt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baptismal Book - 01-04 | 01., St. Michael | Vienna, rk. Archdiocese (eastern Lower Austria and Vienna) | Austria | Matricula Online. Retrieved November 20, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Death register - 03-01 | 01., Hofburg parish | Vienna, rk. Archdiocese (eastern Lower Austria and Vienna) | Austria | Matricula Online. Retrieved November 20, 2018 . 
3. ^ Gerhard Schoen: Mollard, Franz Maximilian (1628–1690), treasurer - Kaiserhof. Retrieved November 20, 2018 . 
4. ↑ www.worldhistory.de, accessed on September 16, 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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