Montelabate (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Montelabbate Della Rovere family

The Montelabate (also Monte l'Abbate ) or Leonardi della Rovere Montelabate were an Italian family who settled in Moravia in the 18th century .

Family history

origin

The family story begins with Giovan Giacomo Leonardi (1498–1562) from Pesaro . He was a diplomat and fortress builder. In 1540 Duke Guidobaldo II della Rovere appointed him Count of Montelabbate and allowed him and his successors to use the name of the Della Rovere dynasty as an epithet. For the next few centuries the family lived in the castle of Montelabbate and in a palazzo in Pesaro, which has been preserved to this day.

Moravia

Gian Giacomo Leonardi Montelabate della Rovere married Countess Maria Amalia Rottal on March 3, 1737, the second oldest daughter of Count Franz Anton Rottal (1690–1762), with whom the male line died out. Franz Anton Rottal bequeathed his daughter Maria Amalia the castle and rule of Bistritz am Hostein . It is not known why Gian Giacomo , who came from the Pesarese nobility, came to Moravia. There may be a connection with Count Franz Anton Rottal's enthusiasm for music. In the 1730s musicians from Pesaro were engaged in his opera house at Holešov Castle , including the composer and artistic director Eustachio Bambini . Gian Giacomo was elevated to the status of Bohemian baron in 1753 by Archduchess Maria Theresa in her capacity as Queen of Bohemia . In the 1760s, the Montelabates commissioned Franz Anton Grimm with the expansion and renovation of their residence at Schloss Bistritz. Gian Giacomo Montelabate and Maria Amalia Rottal had three daughters who married into the Austrian nobility and the son and heir Franz Anton Count Montelabate (1748–1804). He took over the rule in 1789 and founded a factory for faience.

Memorial cross of Genoveva Montelabate in front of the family crypt of the Counts of Fünfkirchen in Stützenhofen, Austria

Wengersky-Montelabate

With the death of Count Fanz Anton Montelabate 1804, the family died out in the male line and the ancestral castle in Montelabbate fell to the Papal States . The family property in Moravia with the Bistritz castle and estate went to his nephew Johann Graf Wengersky, son from the first marriage of his sister Genova Countess Montelabate. In 1805 he received permission to take over the name and coat of arms of his uncle and from then on called himself Johann Graf Wengersky-Montelabate. He died in 1827 without descendants and left his property to his nephew Freiherr Olivier von Laudon, son of his half-sister Countess Amalia Fünfkirchen from the second marriage of his mother Genoveva Countess Montelabate, whose descendants owned and lived in the castle until 1933.

Maria Theresia Countess Montelabate (* 1751), married Countess Cobenzl , inherited the rich Napajedl estate from her aunt Countess Marianna Dietrichstein, née Rottal . Since her own children died early, she adopted Franziska Fünfkirchen, the granddaughter of her sister Genoveva Countess Montelabate. The estate passed through Franziska to Count Georg von Stockau and his descendants; then by marriage to the Baltazzis .

Tribe list

Pesaro-Urbino

  1. Francesco di Stefano ⚭ Maddalena Borgogelli
    1. Giovan Giacomo Leonardi (1498–1562)
    2. Antenore (1501–1581)
      1. Francesco Maria
        1. Giovan Giacomo II (1564–1639) ⚭ Eleonora Mamiani Della Rovere
          1. Francesco Maria II (1595-1636)
            1. Francesco Maria III (1637–1704) Leonardi della Rovere Montelabate ⚭ Beatrice Traviera
              1. Giacomo Leonardi della Rovere Montelabate (1656–1687) ⚭ Margerita Santinella Contessa della Medola
                1. Ippolito Leonardi della Rovere Montelabate (1685–1745) ⚭ Catherina Contessa Bianchelli
                  1. Gian Giacomo Leonardi Montelabate della Rovere (1710–1795)

Moravia

  1. Gian Giacomo Leonardi Montelabate della Rovere (1710–1795) ⚭ Maria Amalia Rottal (1719–1798)
    1. Walburga Countess Montelabate (1737–1787) ⚭ Leopold Graf Lamberg (* 1732)
    2. Genoveva Countess Montelabate (1741–1810) 1. ⚭ 1764 August Emanuel Graf Wengersky (1727–1768); 2.⚭ Count Johann Ferdinand Fünfkirchen
      1. Johann Graf Wengersky-Montelabate (1764–1827)
      2. Amalia Countess Fünfkirchen (born March 12, 1776) ⚭ Alexander Freiherr von Loudon
      3. Johann Franz de Paula Graf Fünfkirchen (* May 26, 1777 - May 31, 1815) ⚭ Sophie op dem Hamme
        1. Franziska Countess Fünfkirchen (1801–1870), adopted by Maria Theresia Countess Cobenzl, b. Countess Montelabate
    3. Franz Anton Count Montelabate (1748–1804)
    4. Maria Theresa Countess Montelabate (* 1751) ⚭ Johann Ludwig Graf Cobenzl
      1. by adoption: Count Franziska Fünfkirchen (1801–1870) ⚭ Count Georg Stockau (1806–1865)
        1. Friedrich Graf Stockau (1832–1884) ⚭ Mathilde Countess Chorinsky
          1. Marie Therese Countess Stockau (1859–1949) ⚭ Aristide Baltazzi (1853–1914)
        2. Georg Graf Stockau (1837–1922) ⚭ Evelyne Baltazzi (1854–1901). Together with his brother-in-law Alexander Baltazzi , he picked up the body of his niece Mary Vetsera from Mayerling .
  • Possessions

  • Alliance arms of the Montelabate and the Rottal above the entrance gate of Bistritz Castle

The coat of arms of the Wengersky-Montelabate with the Montelabate as a heart shield

coat of arms

The quartered coat of arms shows a leafy, green tree in gold on green ground. In one quarter on red, in the other on blue green a golden chevron, accompanied by lying golden moons. The tree in the coat of arms may have been taken over by the Della Rovere , who in 1540 allowed the family to add the name Della Rovere.

Name spelling

The name of the family as well as the spelling is very varied. In his heraldic work The Aristocracy of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia , published in 1904, Adalbert Král recorded the elevation to the Bohemian baron status in 1753 by Johann Jakobs Leonardi della Rovere, Count of Monte Cabbate . In the same work, on page 166, his grandson Johann Graf Wegersky is granted the right to combine the name of the extinct Counts of Montelabate with his own . In addition, the spellings Montelabbate, Montelabate or Monte l'Abbate can be found.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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 / mhs.eu.pn
  2. ^ R. Rossi, Montelabbate - Memorie ... cit., Pp. 35-52; R. Rossi, Francesco Antonio Leonardi della Rovere, ultimo conte di Montelabbate († 1804) , in 'Pesaro città e contà' n.17, 2003, pp. 139-148
  3. ↑ Pesaro entra la mura, No. 46
  4. ^ Wedding on March 3, 1737 according to the entry in the registers of Holešov (Holleschau); in actapublica.eu
  5. ↑ http://www.musiklexikon.ac.at/ml/musik_R/Rottal_Graf.xml
  6. ↑ http://corago.unibo.it/opera/0000586219
  7. ↑ a b http://www.mubph.cz/tisk.php?id=1849&pageID
  8. ↑ http://www.prostor-ad.cz/slovnik/sl_EG.htm#N
  9. ↑ a b http://napajedla.webnode.cz/news/vyvod-marie-terezie-hrabenky-kobenzlove-roz-della-rovere-montelabbate/
  10. ↑ a b History of Bystrice Castle
  11. ↑ The Moravian Nobility , page 73
  12. ↑ a b Genealogy Wengersky
  13. ↑ Gerd Holler: "Bratfisch whistled wonderfully" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1980, pp. 204-224 ( Online - Apr. 7, 1980 ).
  14. ↑ a b Adalbert Král, The nobility of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia , 1904 p 140 and p 166

Web links

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