Seyfried Christoph von Breuner

Count Seyfried Christoph von Breuner (* 1569 in Staatz ; † November 22, 1651 in Asparn an der Zaya ), a member of the Austrian aristocratic family of Breuner , was an advisor to three emperors of the Holy Roman Empire .

biography

Seyfried Christoph was born in 1569 as the second son of the court chamber president Baron Seyfried Breuner (1538–1594) in Staatz in the Lower Austrian Weinviertel . He studied law in Padua and entered civil service in 1597. Emperor Rudolf II appointed him court chamber councilor, and in 1600 he was promoted to president of the Lower Austrian court chamber .

Seyfried Christoph was originally a Protestant, but converted to Catholicism. This ensured him influence at the court of Emperor Matthias even after the brotherly dispute. In 1618 he took part in the overthrow of the powerful Cardinal Melchior Khlesl . He was one of the closest advisors to Emperor Ferdinand II . This raised him to the rank of imperial count in 1624 . From 1620 to 1626 he was land marshal of the Lower Austrian provinces and immediately thereafter governor of Lower Austria . He only resigned from this office in 1640 for reasons of age.

Seyfried Christoph was a financial genius and was considered one of the richest men of his time. In 1594 he inherited the pledge of Staatz from his father, and in 1600 he bought the manor and castle from Emperor Rudolf for 48,708 guilders . In 1610 he acquired the Asparn rule for 145,000 guilders and expanded the castle there into his main residence. In Asparn he founded a minorite monastery that still exists today .

In the last years of his life, his ancestral seat Staatz was destroyed by Swedish troops in 1645. Seyfried Christoph died in 1651 at the age of 82. He was buried in the crypt of the parish church in Asparn. His monument is on the castle bridge.

Others

Seyfried Christoph von Breuner is immortalized as a character in Grillparzer's drama A Brotherly Dispute in Habsburg .

literature

Franz Karl Wissgrill, scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility .., Volume 1, p. 386ff, Vienna 1794

Web links

University of Vienna, Institute for History link

Individual evidence

↑ Family tree on genealogy.euweb.cz
↑ Eitzing. A lovable community in the Innviertel . Edited by the municipality of Eitzing, Upper Austria. Ried i. Innkreis, 2013, p. 49

personal data
SURNAME	Breuner, Seyfried Christoph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Imperial Count von Breuner, Seyfried Christoph; Baron von Breuner, Seyfried Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian count, advisor to three emperors
DATE OF BIRTH	1569
PLACE OF BIRTH	Staatz
DATE OF DEATH	November 22, 1651
Place of death	Asparn on the Zaya

[1] Family tree on genealogy.euweb.cz

[2] Eitzing. A lovable community in the Innviertel . Edited by the municipality of Eitzing, Upper Austria. Ried i. Innkreis, 2013, p. 49