Andreas of Riaucour

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Count Andreas of Riaucour
Epitaph of the son Adam Heinrich Peter in the Mannheim St. Sebastian Church
Bookplate Count Andreas von Riaucour

Andreas von Riaucour (born January 10, 1722 in Warsaw , † October 28, 1794 in Munich ) was an imperial count and diplomat in the service of the Elector of Saxony .

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Coat of arms of the Counts of Riaucour at Crostau Castle

He was born in 1722 as the only son of the Warsaw banker and chamber councilor Peter Riaucour (1693–1775) and his wife Franziska Witthoff. The bourgeois family only rose to hereditary nobility in 1741. The paternal grandfather came from Lorraine and immigrated to Poland.

Andreas von Riaucourt was educated in the Jesuit college at Lyon , studied law, acquired in 1743 at the University of Paris , the licentiate in law and took then diplomatic career. In 1748 he became chargé d'affaires of the Elector of Saxony at the Electoral Palatinate Court in Mannheim , 1750 Minister and 1752 Privy Councilor and Envoy extraordinary to the Electoral Palatinate. He became one of the most respected and influential diplomats accredited by Elector Karl Theodor . In addition, he was the Saxon envoy for Kurköln (1756–1762) and Kurtrier (1762), where he was probably only rarely.

On October 1, 1754, he was raised to the rank of imperial count on the occasion of his marriage to Henriette Luise von Wrede († 1793), daughter of the Electoral Palatinate Minister Ernst von Wrede. In addition to three daughters, only one son named Adam Heinrich Peter (1761–1762), who died as a child, came from this marriage. His marble epitaph has been preserved in the St. Sebastian Church in Mannheim . He is then referred to as "the great hope of the family". The parents, with extensive titles, appear on the memorial stone as mourning donors.

The diplomat bought Putzkau Castle in Saxony as early as 1751 . He resided at the Kurpfälzer Hof a. a. in Sent home to Schwetzingen , 1772 he acquired in Mannheim that during the Second World War destroyed Palais N 2, 4 (Palais Riaucour - later Palais Waldkirch), where he kept his famous collection of paintings. This included u. a. Works by Cranach, Holbein , Rubens , Van Dyck , Rembrandt van Rijn , Tischbein . He acquired Binau Castle as a country residence .

Andreas von Riaucour stayed at his post in Mannheim for 30 years and moved with the government to Munich in 1778 . The legation reports he sent to Dresden , an important source on the history of the Electoral Palatinate under Karl Theodor, were published in extracts in 1912. As a representative of Electoral Saxony, he took part in the election and coronation of Emperor Leopold II in Frankfurt in 1790 .

During his rule in Gaussig, the nobleman set up a foundation for the poor in his will. Andreas von Riaucour was a knight of the Polish Order of the White Eagle , the Polish Order of St. Stanislaus and the Electoral Palatinate Order of the Palatinate Lion , which was limited to only 25 holders.

The coat of arms of the Counts of Riaucour shows in the two-part shield above three roses on a gold background and below two silver cross-currents on a blue background.

The Counts of Riaucour died out in 1794 with his death. The grave slabs of Andreas von Riaucour and his wife are in the Munich Frauenkirche , their bones rest in the cathedral chapter crypt there.

progeny

The older daughter Henriette was married to Baron Carl Theodor von Schall zu Bell, who from then on carried the name "Graf von Schall-Riaucour " through a testamentary ordinance of Count Riaucour . In addition to the collection of paintings, Henriette inherited the property in Saxony and Upper Lusatia from her father. These were u. a. the towns of Gaussig with the castle of the same name , Crostau , Putzkau , Diehmen , Golenz , Medewitz, Drauschkowitz , Guttau , Malschwitz , Brösang , which her father had merged into a Fideikommiss in 1765. She also received Dauchstein Castle in the Odenwald , which her father had bought in 1767.

The younger daughter Marianne, married to Count Clemens August von Waldkirch , received the southern German property, u. a. the Palais Riaucour and the places Binau , Kleineicholzheim (today a district of Schefflenz ), Sindolsheim (today a district of Rosenberg ) and half of the village of Hillesheim .

literature

  • Harald Stockert: "... many noble houses". City seats, country castles and noble living environments in Mannheim and the Electoral Palatinate. Mannheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-941001-08-4 .
  • Coat of arms of Count Schall zu Bell at Crostau Castle
    Günther Ebersold: Old, new and “natural” nobility - careers at the court of the Electoral Palatinate of the 18th century , Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89735-724-2 , pp. 117-138
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : German count houses of the present. Volume II. Leipzig 1853, p. 369 ( Google books ).
  • Friedrich Walter : Riaucour's legation reports as a source for the history of Elector Karl Theodor. In: Mannheim history sheets. 8, 1907

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume 27, 1962, p. 590
  2. ^ Johann Christoph Gottsched: Correspondence Including The Correspondence By Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched , p. 513
  3. ^ Karl von Weber: From four centuries: Mittheilungen from the main state archive in Dresden , p. 268
  4. ^ Ghislain Brunel: Les sources de l'histoire de la Pologne et des polonais dans les archives françaises , 2003, ". 93
  5. ^ Carl Eduard Vehse: History of the German courts since the Reformation , Volume 34, p. 410
  6. ^ Helmut Tenner: Mannheim art collector and art dealer up to the middle of the nineteenth century , 1966, pp. 42, 49
  7. ^ Website on the history of Putzkau, with mention of the castle owner Andreas von Riaucour
  8. ↑ To the Mannheimer Palais Riaucour, with photo
  9. ^ Johann Christian Jaeger: Complete Diary of the Roman-Royal Election and Imperial Coronation , Frankfurt am Main 1791, p. 114
  10. ^ Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences: New Lausizische monthly , p. 118
  11. ↑ Gustav Adolf Poenicke: album of the manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony III. Section, Issue 10 of Section Markgrafenthum Oberlausitz , Leipzig 1854–1861, p. 75
  12. ↑ His electoral examination of the Palatinate, etc. Court and state calendar for the year 1785 , p. 21
  13. ^ Hans Rall: Elector Karl Theodor , 1993, p. 207
  14. ^ Anton Mayer: The cathedral church to UL Frau in Munich , Munich 1868, p. 450 u. 451; (Digital scan)
  15. ↑ To Putzkau Castle with mention of Count Riaucour
  16. ↑ To the possession of the Dauchstein Castle
personal data
SURNAME Riaucour, Andreas von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Imperial Count and diplomat in the service of the Elector of Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1794
Place of death Munich