Maximiliane Hiserle from Chodau

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Countess Esterle

Anna Aloysia Maximiliane Louise , née Countess von Lamberg , divorced Hiserle (Esterle) von Chodau , married von Oppersdorf , (* around 1676/77; † June 28, 1738 in Breslau ) was the lover of the Saxon Elector Augustus the Strong from 1696 to 1699 , King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania and then Prince Alexander Benedikt Sobieski and found entry into literature as Countess Esterle .

Origin and relatives

Anna Aloisia Maximiliane von Lamberg was a daughter of Friedrich Graf von Lamberg , Freiherr von Ortenegg and Ottenstein (1648–1686), and his first wife Marie Franziska Theresia Countess Hiserle von Chodau († 1684). Her grandfather was Johann Maximilian von Lamberg .

Around 1695 she was briefly married to the imperial chamberlain Franz Michael Count Hiserle von Chodau, who came from a Bohemian nobility. In 1697 she was divorced and married again on November 1, 1698 with the kk chamberlain and privy councilor Gustav Hannibal von Oppersdorff, baron of Aich and Friedstein, († December 29, 1744 in Adlerkosteletz ). Anna Aloisia Maximiliane gave birth to her second husband Gustav Hannibal von Oppersdorff , Baron von Aich and Friedstein in 1698, a son who did not reach adolescence and whose biological father is said to be the Saxon Elector Augustus the Strong .

Life with August the Strong

The Saxon Elector Augustus the Strong met Countess Esterle in August 1696 at the Viennese court of Emperor Leopold I at a court ball. The countess is said to have been tall, blond, cheerful and charming. Her exact date of birth is not known. After a gift of 40,000 guilders, she heard the Saxon Elector's bidding. The husband of Countess Esterle, an imperial royal chamberlain and privy councilor, is said to have received an annual pension of 20,000 guilders from Elector August the Strong and to have committed in a contract to renounce his marital rights, but to have children conceived by the Elector as his own children to recognize his name.

Both the Elector's wife, Christiane Eberhardine von Brandenburg-Bayreuth , and his mistress at the time Aurora von Königsmarck were in childbed in October 1696 and had given birth to the Elector's sons. Nevertheless, he postponed the return trip to Dresden . In December he returned to his residence with his new lover. There he introduced Countess Esterle to his wife and mother. Their reception was frosty; it was rejected by both women and reacted with arrogance and provocative Viennese elegance. In terms of character, Countess Esterle was considered to be calculating, always concerned about her own advantage and was - as far as can be judged - the most expensive mistress August the Strong ever had.

Life as a mistress

The official duties of a mistress at that time were a court office with its own income and privileges. Unlike Aurora von Königsmarck, Countess Esterle did not understand how to win the affection of the Elector's mother and the acceptance of the court society in Dresden . When Friedrich August I applied for the Polish royal crown, she encouraged him to do so. In July 1697 he set foot on Polish soil for the first time; Countess Esterle was always at his side. On September 15, 1697, the Elector of Saxony was crowned King of Poland in Cracow and presented his mistress as the woman on the left at the Polish court. She remained the favorite until 1699, because Polish aristocrats tried to give the king a Polish woman as lover. The choice fell on Katharina von Altenbockum , married Lubomirski . After allegations of affairs with several courtiers, Countess Esterle was expelled from the Polish royal court as an undesirable person and had to leave the country within 24 hours.

Countess Esterle, married von Oppersdorff, lived in Breslau and was the lover of the Polish prince Alexander Benedikt Sobieski . In 1725 she had the Oppersdorff Palace built in Breslau as an investment and residence.

literature

  • Georg Piltz: August the Strong. Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-355-01422-2 .
  • Reinhard Delau: August the Strong and his mistresses. Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-938325-06-2 .
  • Klaus Kühnel: August the Strong and the Weak Sex. The love affairs of Elector Friedrich August I of Saxony. Wittenberg 2005, ISBN 3-933028-92-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lamberg 7. Accessed April 7, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Bohemian nobility. Retrieved April 7, 2014 .
  3. ^ Procházka novel : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian gentry families. Neustadt an der Aisch, 1973, ISBN 3-7686-5002-2 , p. 115: Hi (e) serle from Chodau
  4. ^ Anna Constantia Countess of Cosel. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 11, 2013 ; Retrieved April 7, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / chris_wr.dl.interia.pl
  5. ↑ Reinhard Delau: August the Strong and his mistresses. Dresden 2005, p. 47.
  6. ↑ Georg Piltz: August the Strong. Berlin 1986, pp. 285, 286, 290.
  7. ↑ August the Strong. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 3, 2016 ; Retrieved April 7, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  8. ↑ Reinhard Delau: August the Strong and his mistresses. Dresden 2005, pp. 47, 50, 51.
  9. ↑ Reinhard Delau: August the Strong and his mistresses. Dresden 2005, pp. 58-60.
  10. ↑ Eleanor Herman: Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge. HarperCollins, New York 2004, ISBN 0-06-058543-9 .
  11. ↑ Odkrywamy Wrocław: Pałac Oppersdorfów. Retrieved April 7, 2014 (Polish).
personal data
SURNAME Chodau, Maximiliane Hiserle from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chodau, Anna Aloysia Maximiliane Louise Esterle von; Chodau, Anna Aloysia Maximiliane Louise Hiserle from; Lamberg, Maximiliane Hiserle von (maiden name); Oppersdorff, Maximiliane Hiserle von (married name); Esterle, countess
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Beloved of the Saxon Elector August the Strong and then of Alexander Benedikt Sobieski
DATE OF BIRTH around 1676
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1738
Place of death Wroclaw