Lorenzo Piccolomini

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Lorenzo Piccolomini (Czech Vavřinec, kniže Piccolomini ; * November 24, 1656 ; † September 22, 1714 in Ratibořice , Eastern Bohemia ) was Duke of Amalfi , imperial prince and landlord of the Eastern Bohemian rule Nachod .

Life

His parents were Francesco Piccolomini -Pieri di Amalfi and Emiliana Strozzi . After the death of Duke Enea Silvio Piccolomini ( Aeneáš Sylvius, kníže Piccolomini ), who died unmarried and without descendants in 1673, his younger brother Lorenzo Piccolomini inherited his property. Since he was not yet of legal age, he was initially under the tutelage of the Italian nobleman Pietro Antonio Machio de Quadiani. Even after Lorenzo came of age on May 2, 1679, he could not act as regent , because Maria Benigna Franziska von Sachsen-Lauenburg , widow of general Octavio Piccolomini, was not ready to renounce the reign. Only after long disputes did she leave Náchod in 1685.

Duke Lorenzo stayed mainly on his rule Nachod, where he promoted the craft and the guilds . In 1689 he confirmed most of the previous privileges to the city. However, he withdrew her from her, among other things, the privilege of brewing and serving beer. He had Rýzmburg , which was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War, completely renovated. In 1708, he built Ratibořice Castle in the Italian Baroque style on the site of an older manor house .

A misfortune occurred when Duke Lorenzo was on a pilgrimage to Boušín on July 4, 1694 with a horse-drawn carriage . Coming from Červená Hora , the team used the bridge over the Aupa , which broke in the middle during the crossing. The duke and his company as well as the team of horses fell into the river. As no one was harmed, he had a chapel built nearby out of gratitude, which is still known today as the Piccolomini chapel ( Piccolominská kaplička ). It was decorated with paintings depicting this event.

Lorenzo Piccolomini, the Prior of the Order of St. Stephen in Pisa, married Anna Viktoria Ludmila Kolowrat -Liebsteinsky (1667–1738) in Prague on September 8, 1688 . The children came from marriage:

  1. Giovanni Venceslao Piccolomini d'Aragona ( Jan Václav, kníže Piccolomini ; 1693–1742)
  2. Maria Emilia Piccolomini d'Aragona (1694–1771), received after the death of her brother Giovanni Venceslao in 1742 Řešetova Lhota ( Lhota near Studnitz ). Remained single and died in Prague.
  3. Maria Margherita Piccolomini d'Aragona (1696-1725), was married to a count of Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf († before 1742).
  4. Antonio Piccolomini d'Aragona di Siena (1698–1708), died in childhood
  5. Ottavio Enea Giuseppe Piccolomini di Amalfi (1698–1757)
  6. Giovanni Norberto Venzeslao Piccolomini d'Aragona (1700–1746), Knight of the Order of Malta , Imperial valet and assessor at the Bohemian Court of Appeal in Prague.
  7. Ludmila Maximiliane Piccolomini d'Aragona (1703–1768), inherited Studnice after the death of her brother Venceslao in 1742 . Married on June 30, 1732 to Count Albrecht Maximilian Desfours (1708–1748). Whose son was
    1. Joseph Adalbert von Desfours ( Josef Vojtěch, hrabě Desfours , † 1791)

literature

  • Jan Karel Hraše: Dějiny Náchoda 1620 - 1740 , Náchod 1994, ISBN 80-900041-8-0 , pp. 63–73
  • Lydia Baštecká, Ivana Ebelová: Náchod . Náchod 2004, ISBN 80-7106-674-5 , pp. 106, 108 and 111

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Bahlcke , Winfried Eberhard, Miloslav Polívka (eds.): Handbook of historical sites . Volume: Bohemia and Moravia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 329). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-32901-8 , pp. 509-510.
  2. ^ Genealogy of Todeschini Piccolomini and Pieri Piccolomini
  3. ↑ after Jan Karel Hraše: Kateřina Markéta .
personal data
SURNAME Piccolomini, Lorenzo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piccolomini, Vavřinec, kneel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Amalfi, imperial prince and ruler of the Náchod rule in Eastern Bohemia
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1656
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1714
Place of death Ratibořice