Mollard (noble family)
The Mollard (also: Molart , Mollart or Mollarth ) were originally an aristocratic Savoy family who came to Austria in the 16th century and had belonged to the gentry since 1571 . The lords, barons and counts von Mollard later belonged to the court nobility of the Habsburgs in Vienna and held important positions in the imperial administration. They are not to be confused with the Freiherren von Moll .
history
Peter von Mollard († 1576) was the chamberlain of Emperor Maximilian II (1527–1576) and the chief stable master of Empress Maria . He enjoyed a high reputation with the emperor and was raised to the baron status in 1571 as Freiherr von Reinegg (also Reineck ) .
In 1563 he acquired the Freihaus in Hochstrasse in Vienna from the parish of St. Michael , who had previously owned it as a foundation house. The corresponding sales letter between Valentin Sixtl, chaplain and pastor of St. Michael, and Peter von Mollard is dated July 6, 1563. Peter von Mollard died in 1576, his five sons inherited the house in 1591 after their mother's death.
The eldest son of this couple, Ernst († 1620), became one of the closest confidants at the court of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. Between 1602 and 1608 he served as governor of the Archduchy of Austria under the Enns . In the Viennese suburb of St. Ulrich , "Am Plätzel", he acquired a few houses, which he combined with his property and finally made available to the Capuchin Order, who was coming to Vienna, as a branch.
His brother Hans served the Archduke and later Emperor Matthias and became President of the Vienna City Guard.
Another brother, Peter Ernst , received the rule of Gumpendorf outside the city walls of Vienna and the rule of Rosenburg in the Waldviertel through the inheritance of his wife, a daughter of the court chamber secretary Vinzenz Muschinger . In the house at Herrengasse 9 (the predecessor of the baroque Palais Mollard-Clary ) big politics was made.
By marrying Maria Elisabeth, a daughter of Michael Ferdinand von Althann , the kk chamberlain, court chamber councilor and chief chef Franz Ernst von Mollard acquired the Moravian rule of Oslawan in 1654 ; his son Peter Ernst sold it in 1712 to the Cistercian abbey Maria Saal in Altbrünn.
In 1695 Ferdinand Ernst von Mollard , Vice President of the Court Chamber , commissioned the Italian architect Domenico Martinelli with a baroque renovation and expansion of the Palais Mollard . A fourth floor was added to the house, the three-storey transverse wing in the courtyard, including a chapel and a large staircase, were built. The narrow connecting passage in the Piano Nobile was decorated with mythological oil paintings attributed to Andrea Lanzani (1641–1712). In 1733 numerous construction defects have been handed down, including the badly dilapidated roof having to be replaced. The repair work was carried out by Lucas von Hildebrandt . In 1760 the palace was sold to Franz Wenzel Graf Clary and Aldringen , who bought it as a winter residence for his family from Teplitz .
One of the best-known members of the Mollard family was Karoline von Fuchs-Mollard (1675–1754), who became particularly important as educator and chief stewardess of Empress Maria Theresa and was the only non-Habsburg woman to be buried in the Capuchin crypt after her death . She was the daughter of the aforementioned Vice President of the Court Chamber, Ferdinand Ernst Graf Mollard, and his wife Katharina von Seeau .
The lords, barons and counts von Mollard had their most important burial place in the crypt under the Michaelerkirche in Vienna , where some of the most important members of the family found their final resting place. The aforementioned Peter von Mollard also received a magnificent tomb in the choir of the Michaelerkirche. The relief on it shows a knight with a cross flag, including the family of the deceased. This magnificent Renaissance monument was donated in 1591. Fragments of the cover plate of the Mollard crypt below can still be found under the prayer chairs.
coat of arms
Blazon : The main coat of arms on the epitaph of Peter von Mollard († 1576) in the Michaelerkirche in Vienna shows the coat of arms in blue a left-facing, rising white (= silver) pointing dog with a gold collar and a ring on it, but above the dog three gold stars in one Row are placed side by side; Above it a crowned helmet with the white pointing dog, the helmet covers blue-silver.
Blazon: The increased coat of arms from 1761 shows a squared shield with a heart shield ; Fields 1 and 4 in blue, in which a left-facing, ascending white or silver pointing dog with a gold collar and a ring on it, but above the dog three gold stars are placed in a row next to each other [family coat of arms] , fields 2 and 3 in blue, below with silver waves , over which stands a golden and squarely red-striped fort with an open gate, battlements and three towers placed on top ; the middle shield is a golden field, in which the spread out, double, imperial black eagle covered with a golden crown, holding a scepter and sword in its claws, affixed to the chest with "F III." the count's crown rests on the shield ; Above it are three crowned helmets, on the first the white pointing dog, on the second the imperial black eagle like in a heart shield, on the third an armored arm with drawn, bare sword ; the helmet covers are blue-silver on both sides.
literature
- Anna Marie Sigmund: There is a castle in Austria - on the construction and ownership history of the Rosenburg . In: Nobility in Transition. Politics, culture, denomination 1500-1700, catalog of the Lower Austrian regional exhibition Rosenburg 1990 , Vienna 1990, pp. 585–602. ISBN 3854600194
Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Michael as Burial Place , accessed on September 26, 2012
- ^ Journal. Organ of the heraldic genealogical association "Adler", first year, Vienna 1871, p. 167