Leopold Schlik zu Bassano and Weißkirchen

Leopold Comes a Schlick

Leopold Anton Joseph Schlik zu Bassano and Weißkirchen , also Schlick or Šlik (* June 10, 1663 ; † April 10, 1723 ) was an Imperial General War Commissioner , Ambassador , Field Marshal and Bohemian Court Chancellor during the War of the Spanish Succession .

Life

Prague, St. Vitus Cathedral : On the pillar opposite the Wenceslas Chapel stands the epitaph of Šlik, executed in marble by Franz Maximilian Kaňka based on a design by the architect Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach .

Šlik was married to Maria Josepha Wratislaw, a sister of Johann Wenzel Wratislaw von Mitrowitz , in his second marriage . One of his ancestors was Heinrich von Schlick Passau and Weißkirchen, President of the Court War Council from 1644 to 1648. From the beginning of October 1698 to January 26, 1699, Major General Šlik represented Emperor Leopold I with Wolfgang von Oettingen-Wallerstein in the negotiations on the Peace of Karlowitz . Šlik was one of the war winners in southern Hungary, he received latifundia in the Hungarian, neo-Acquist areas from the Neo-Acquist Commission.

On January 26, 1683, Wenzel Ferdinand Popel von Lobkowitz and Max II Emanuel von Bayern signed a defense treaty against France and the Ottoman Empire . Max Emanuel undertook to provide 8,000 men for annual subsidies of 250,000 guilders in peacetime and 450,000 guilders in war; in addition, with 15,000 men, he took over cover against a French attack on front Austria and Tyrol. In March 1692 Max Emanuel went to Brussels as the Spanish Governor General of the Spanish Netherlands . On June 20, 1692 Šlik became sergeant general. On February 6, 1699, the son of Max Emanuel, Joseph Ferdinand von Bayern , died in Brussels. With this death there was poisoning by agents of the emperor in the room. As a result, Max Emanuel was late in fulfilling his duties as a condottiere to the emperor and returned to Bavaria at the end of April 1701. Leopold I promoted Šlik to field marshal lieutenant on January 23, 1700 and in 1702 sent him to Therese Kunigunde from Poland to Munich. From September 1702 to December 1703 Max Emanuel occupied Ulm, which was immediately part of the empire, by surprise . In March 1703 General Šlik von Salzburg crossed the Bavarian border and took action against the country militias of the apparently renegade Max Emanuel in Bavaria. In June 1703 Max Emanuel conquered Kufstein with 12,600 men and failed at the Pontlatzer Bridge , which is known as the Bavarian hype in Tyrol. At this time, Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars , the ambassador of Louis XIV , was the opponent of Šlik in the cabinet war with Max Emanuel .

At the beginning of October 1703, Emperor Leopold I appointed Lieutenant General Šlik as commander in chief of the imperial armies in Hungary. From October 9, 1703, Šlik had troops in Bratislava against the uprising of Francis II Rákóczi . On May 2, 1704 Šlik became general of the cavalry.

On August 13, 1704, the Second Battle took place near Höchstädt , after which Maximilian Emanuel fled Baiern. As a result, the imperial troops immediately raised troops in Baiern, which led to the Braunau parliament on December 25, 1705 for the Sendlinger Murder Christmas and the battle of Aidenbach .

In 1705 Emperor Joseph I transferred the office of General War Commissioner to Šlik with the consent of Prince Eugene of Savoy . In this role, Šlik moved from the camp of Karl Theodor von Salm to that of his brother-in-law Johann Wenzel Wratislaw von Mitrowitz . For the stationing of imperial troops in the Spanish Netherlands, Prince Eugene applied for the stationing burden to be distributed across the entire empire. This use of the imperial finances caused the General War Commissary Šlik to reply that one million francs would have to suffice to feed the imperial troops for the six winter months and that the prince should endeavor to persuade the Dutch to cover all the needs; that, by the way, there was no reason why the imperial troops in the Netherlands should be paid better than in the other countries. Under Emperor Charles VI. Prince Eugene pushed through the replacement of Slik.

On June 15, 1707 Šlik became field marshal. From December 18, 1711 to December 22, 1712 he was the highest chancellor of the countries of the Bohemian Crown and thus deputy of Joseph I in Bohemia.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Schlik, Leopold Anton Joseph Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 30th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1875, pp. 126–128 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Oettingen-Wallerstein, Wolfgang IV., Graf zu in the German biography and portrait collection of the Munich City Museum
2. ↑ Joseph von Zahn, Ferdinand III. and Leopold I .: from the Westphalian to the Karlovice Peace p. 268
3. ↑ edited by Matthias Asche, War, Military and Migration in the Early Modern Age, p. 287
4. ↑ Andreas Kraus, History of Bavaria: from the beginnings to the present , p. 303
5. ^ Carl Eduard Vehse, History of the Austrian Court and Nobility and Austrian Diplomacy Volume 6, 1852, p. 90
6. ↑ Lorenz von Westenrieder, Ernst Groe, Complete Works, Volume 9 , p. 45
7. ^ Andreas Kraus, Dieter Albrecht, The Old Bavaria. The Territorial State .: From the end of the 12th century to the end of the 18th century , Ch.Beck, 1988, p. 500
8. ^ Victor Hornyánszky, History of the Austrian Imperial State , Volume 2, 1854, p. 179
9. ↑ Petra Vokáčova: Příběhy o HRDE pokoře. Aristokracie českých zemí a císařský dvůr v době vrcholného baroka , dissertation, Brno 2008, p. 60 ( full text )
10. ^ Alfred von Arneth: Prince Eugene of Savoy. Vol. 1708-1718 , p. 15

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predecessor	Office	successor
Anton von Dietrichstein	Austrian envoy in Munich 1702	Rudolph Chotek by Chotkow
	Austrian General War Commissioner 1705 to 1713	Thürheim zu Huldenberg
Johann Wenzel Wratislaw von Mitrowitz (June 6, 1705 to December 18, 1711)	Supreme Chancellor in Bohemia December 18, 1711 to December 22, 1712