Maximilian Karl (Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort)

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Contemporary portrait of Prince Maximilian Karl zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
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Maximilian Karl Albrecht Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (born July 14, 1656 in Rochefort , Namur Province , Wallonia , Belgium ; † December 26, 1718 in Milan ) was the first prince from the House of Löwenstein .

Maximilian Karl was elevated to the rank of prince on April 3, 1711 by Emperor Joseph I. The survey was carried out by his successor and brother, Emperor Charles VI. , on January 8, 1712 with the prince diploma extended to the entire marital descendants.

Life

Maximilian Karl was the fourth child and first son of Count Ferdinand Karl (1616–1672) and Anna Maria, née Countess von Fürstenberg (1634–1705). Ten other siblings followed him. He married the Tyrolean Countess Polyxena Maria Khuen von Lichtenberg and Belasi on August 26, 1678 in Innsbruck . The marriage resulted in ten children, of which all male descendants, except for the future Prince Dominikus Marquard, died before their father. His daughter Eleonore Maria Anna married the Landgrave Ernst II. Leopold von Hessen-Rotenburg .

In accordance with family tradition, Maximilian Karl entered the imperial service and suggested the Wittelsbach successor in the Palatinate , which he could have claimed with strong support from the French side. When he was introduced as a real Reichshofrat on the Herrenbank in Vienna in 1686 , he was already captain of the life guard of Empress Eleonore . As a result, he held the post of imperial minister in the Franconian district and shortly thereafter in the Upper Rhine district; in May 1699 he became a member of the Secret Council of the Hereditary Lands and in April 1702 he was finally awarded the title "High and Well-Born". In 1704 Maximilian Karl took up the post of governor in the Upper Palatinate; stations in Landshut and Munich followed, where he was appointed administrator of the Duchy of Bavaria after Elector Max Emanuel of Bavaria had to go into exile. In the middle of 1709 Maximilian Karl obviously received an oral assurance that the prince would be raised, but this was delayed and only took place on April 3, 1711. The Prince's letter initially referred only to him and his direct successors; only later was another diploma issued, with which all his legitimate descendants were elevated to princes. The issuance of these two diplomas cost Maximilian Karl 9631 guilders and 30 cruisers. From 1712 to 1716 he took on the honorable office of the imperial principal commissioner at the Reichstag in Regensburg. His last position in imperial service, which he held until his death, was from 1717 on as governor in the Duchy of Milan , which Prince Eugene had conquered for the House of Habsburg.

Maximilian Karl was buried in Milan; his heart was transferred and buried in the crypt of the collegiate church in Wertheim .

progeny

From the marriage between Maximilian Karl and Polyxena Maria Khuen von Lichtenberg and Belasi came:

  • Princess Maria Theresia Franziska (* 1679; † 1718), Ursuline
  • Hereditary Count Wilhelm Karl Magnus Anton (* / † 1680)
  • Hereditary Count Maximillian Karl Anton (November 30, 1681 - October 27, 1710)
  • Count Wolfgang Philipp Eberhard Joseph (* / † 1683)
  • Count Felix Albert (* 1684; † 1685)
  • Countess Eleonore Maria Anna ∞ Landgrave Ernst Leopold of Hessen-Rotenburg in Frankfurt on November 9, 1704
  • Count Franziscus Joseph (* 1687; † 1688)
  • Countess Maria Leopoldina Theresa Renata Dorothea (* 1689; † 1763) ∞ Count Conrad Sigmund von Starhemberg in Altötting on September 1, 1710
  • Prince Dominik Marquard zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort ∞ Countess Christina von Hessen-Wanfried (1688–1728)
  • Count Franziscus Karl (* 1693; † 1697)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Zuber:  Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort, Maximilian Karl Fürst zu. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 98 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Martina Heine: Löwensteiner in the imperial princes . In: Wertheimer Zeitung from January 5, 2012
predecessor Office successor
Ferdinand Karl Count of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
from 1711 Prince
1672–1718 		Dominik Marquard
personal data
SURNAME Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort, Maximilian Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort, Maximilian Karl zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman, first prince from the Löwenstein family
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1656
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochefort
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1718
Place of death Milan