Sebastian Johann Georg von Künigl

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Sebastian Johann Georg Count von Künigl

Count Sebastian Johann Georg von Künigl zu Ehrenburg (* January 20, 1663 ; † November 29, 1739 ) was governor from 1695 to 1739 , and from 1732 to 1739 also imperial governor (gubernator) of Tyrol . He came from the old Tyrolean noble family of the Künigl .

Live and act

Sebastian Johann Georg Graf von Künigl was the son of the Tyrolean governor Johann Georg Freiherr von Künigl (1628–1697) and his wife Maria Anna geb. Vizthum of Eckstädt . The von Künigl family belonged to the Tyrolean nobility ; at the time of his birth they were barons , but from 1713 counts .

Elector Maximilian II. Emanuel of Bavaria was during the Spanish War of Succession , in June 1703 with the support of the French king Louis XIV. In Tirol occurred. There were fighting between the Bavarian troops and the Tyrolean Landwehr, which went down in history under the belittling name of Bavarian Rummel .

Christian Probst writes in his book Lieber Bayernisch Die , that Governor Count von Künigl had taken over the leadership of the Tyrolean Resistance on behalf of Emperor Leopold I in 1703 . The same thing is recorded in the book 1703 - the Bavarian Hype in Tyrol (published in 2005, by the Tyrolean State Archives).

In gratitude for the successful defense against the enemy, the Tyrolean estates praised the erection of the Anna column in Innsbruck's Maria-Theresien-Strasse .

Kaspar Ignaz von Künigl (1671–1747), the younger brother of the governor, ruled as Prince-Bishop of Brixen .

Marriage and offspring

The son Johann Philipp Nerius Joseph Graf von Künigl, educator of Emperor Leopold II.

Sebastian Johann Georg von Künigl was married to Gabriele Countess von Mauleon-de Tassigny. They resided in Innsbruck , in the "Neuen Hof" (which, however, burned down in 1728) and had the following children:

  • Leopold Joseph Graf von Künigl, * June 12, 1688, ∞ Maria Josepha Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, later ∞ Aloisia Lazansky
  • Maria Theresa Countess von Künigl, * May 23, 1690, ∞ Johann Georg Rafael, Count of Clary and Aldringen
  • Maria Anna Countess von Künigl, born September 7, 1691, ∞ Karl Spinola
  • Joseph Franz Ignaz Graf von Künigl, * June 5, 1693
  • Franz Heinrich Joseph Dominik Alexius Count von Künigl, * July 15, 1695
  • Johann Philipp Nerius Joseph Graf von Künigl, * November 15, 1696, ∞ Maria Barbara Judith von Starhemberg
  • Sebastian Joseph Andreas Graf von Künigl, * December 30, 1697
  • Anton Joseph, count of Künigl, * June 20, 1699
  • Anton, count of Künigl, * 1702
  • Alexander Joseph Sigmund Carl Graf von Künigl, * January 1704, ∞ Maria Antonia von Trautson, Countess of Falkenstein
  • Charlotte Countess von Künigl, * June 30, 1706, ∞ Joseph Sebastian Clary

The mentioned son Johann Philipp Graf von Künigl (1696-1770) acted as tutor and chief steward of Grand Duke Leopold of Tuscany, who later became Emperor Leopold II.

literature

  • Christian Probst : Better to die Bavarian. The Bavarian popular uprising in 1705 and 1706. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7991-5970-3 .
  • Martin P. Schennach, Richard Schober (Ed.): 1703. The “Bavarian Rummel” in Tyrol (= publications of the Tyrolean State Archives. 10). Files from the symposium of the Tyrolean Provincial Archives Innsbruck, 28. – 29. November 2003. Wagner, Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-7030-0395-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the mother's full name
  2. ↑ books.google.de
  3. ↑ Genealogical page on the children
  4. ^ Genealogical page on Philipp von Künigl
  5. ↑ Source on the function of the son Philipp as educator and chief steward
  6. ↑ Further source on the court activity of Philipp von Künigl
personal data
SURNAME Künigl, Sebastian Johann Georg von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Governor, 1732 to 1739 also imperial governor (Gubernator) of Tyrol (1695–1739)
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1663
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1739