Melchior Ferdinand of Gashin

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Melchior Ferdinand of Gashin

Imperial Count Melchior Ferdinand von Gaschin (Czech: Melichar Ferdinand Gašinský z Gašina ; * 1581 in Katscher ; † July 16, 1665 in Polish Neukirch ) was Chancellor and Governor of Opole - Ratibor and Governor of the County of Glatz .

Life

Melchior Ferdinand von Gaschin was the son of Melchior Freiherr von Gaschin von und zu Rosenberg and Margarete von Skal. Since the family was loyal to the imperial family during the Bohemian uprising , Melchior Ferdinand was raised to the bohemian baron status on April 5, 1621, together with his father and his three brothers . Further ranks followed: the old Bohemian gentry on December 28, 1632, Herbland-Austrian Count on January 7, 1633, Bohemian Count on June 22, 1635 and finally the confirmation of the title of Count and execution of the Imperial Count diploma on July 24, 1663. He was out 1625 provincial chancellor of the Principality of Opole-Ratibor and from 1636 provincial governor there, making him one of the most important imperial officials.

After Opole-Ratibor was pledged to the Polish royal family in 1645 as a replacement for unpaid dowries of several Austrian princesses who were married to Poland, Melchior Ferdinand, who lacked the trust of the new pledgee, lost the office of governor. Presumably for this reason he was appointed governor of the also Bohemian County of Glatz in 1646 by the Emperor Ferdinand . After the change of Polish kings in 1648, Melchior Ferdinand received the governorate of Opole-Ratibor back in 1649. Since he still belonged to the Catholic party loyal to the emperor, he rose to vice-president in 1652 and president of the Silesian Chamber in Wroclaw in 1654. Thus he held an influential sovereign office in the administration of Silesia .

Due to his important positions in the service of the Habsburgs, Melchior Ferdinand was able to build a considerable fortune. As early as 1631 he acquired the Żyrowa rule , which the previous owner Georg Friedrich von Zyrowski had lost as a supporter of the winter king Friedrich von der Pfalz . He also owned the Silesian lordships of Rosenberg , Woischnik and Polish Neukirch . He carried out the re-Catholicization of his subjects on the dominions belonging to him. In his will of 1658 he ordered the conversion of all possessions into a Fideikommiss . For the pilgrimage site on St. Annaberg he donated the Franciscan monastery with the monastery church. After his death he was buried in the family crypt in the Dominican church in Ratibor . His nephew Georg Adam Franz von Gashin became his heir .

The baroque palace complex in Żyrowa, built by Melchior Ferdinand in 1644 on the site of a previous building, remained in the possession of the Gashin family until November 10, 1852.

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  1. ↑ Elsewhere as early as 1653. Here according to Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility . Volume 67 = Adelslexikon. Volume 4: G-Har. CA Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 1978, p. 41.
  2. ↑ Ludwig Petry : Political and ecclesiastical upheavals in the age of the 30 Years War (1611-1648). In: Ludwig Petry, Josef Joachim Menzel (ed.): The Habsburg time 1526–1740 (= History of Silesia. Vol. 2). 2nd, revised edition. Thorbecke, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-7995-6342-3 , pp. 48-71, here p. 64.
personal data
SURNAME Gashin, Melchior Ferdinand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Melichar Ferdinand Gašinský z Gašina (Czech)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Imperial Count, Governor of Opole-Ratibor and the County of Glatz
DATE OF BIRTH 1581
PLACE OF BIRTH Kietrz
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1665
Place of death Polska Cerekiew