Wenzel Chotek by Chotkow

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Wenzel Anton (since 1745) Imperial Count Chotek von Chotkow and Wognin , (born February 26, 1674 on Gut Bieloschitz ; † May 2, 1754 in Prague ) was an official of the military administration of the House of Habsburg in the 18th century as Austrian governor in the Kingdom of Bohemia .

Origin and family

Wenzel Anton came from the old Bohemian noble family Chotek von Chotkow and Wognin from the ancestral seat Chockow near Radnitz in western Bohemia and was the posthumously born son of Georg Rudolph Ritter Chotek von Chotkow and Wognin (* 1628, † April 30, 1673) and his wife on 21 Second marriage to Johanna Sabina, nee Proy von Gaisselperg and Findtelstein († October 7, 1692), widowed Reisky von Dubnitz, which, after the death of the second husband, had a third marriage with Ladislaw Ritter Sekerka von Sedczicz and then in 1686 a third marriage fourth marriage with Mathias Andreas Freiherr Hartmann von Klarstein.

The daughter of Georg Rudolph Chotek's first marriage with Polyxena Dorothea Eleonore Feldhoffer von Feldhoffen († 1670) Elisabeth Polyxena Chotek (* July 1670, † July 6, 1714), married the head of the Leitmeritz district in Northern Bohemia, Wenzel Ignaz Freiherr Zucker von Tamfeld († 1699), on Heiligenkreuz (Chodsky Ujezd) near Tachau (Tachov) in western Bohemia.

Wenzel Anton Chotek von Chotkow and Wognin, the son of Georg Rudolph Chotek's second marriage with Sabina, née Proy von Gaisselperg and Findtelstein, married Maria Theresia Scheidler von Scheidler on Jeniowes and Weltrus on October 28, 1698 in Prague (* March 7th 1684 in Prague; † April 6, 1709 on Weltrus), a daughter of Ferdinand Christoph Ritter Scheidler (Zeidler) by Zeidler called Hofmann , royal captain of the Lesser Town of Prague and treasurer in the Kingdom of Bohemia, and Maria Theresa, née Countess Losy of Losimthal, whose daughter Maria Theresia Scheidler (Zeidler) brought the large estates of Jeniowes and World Rus in Central Bohemia into her marriage to Wenzel Anton Chotek von Chotkow and Wognin as a marriage property and thus enabled the Chotek's social advancement to the imperial count and the establishment of a family entourage. The marriage of Wenzel Anton Chotek Count von Chotkow and Wognin and his wife Maria Theresia, née Scheidlern ( Zeidler called Hofmann ) had two sons: 1. Johann Karl Count Chotek von Chotkowa and Wognin (1704–1787) and 2. Rudolph Count Chotek von Chotkowa and Wognin (1708–1771).

Life

Wenzel Anton Chotek von Chotkow and Wognin (1674–1754), was a Bohemian old baron for himself and his descendants of both sexes from 1702 and was admitted to the lordship on February 6, 1702 (Vienna), was since May 13, 1723 (Laxenburg) Bohemian count and since October 4, 1745 (Frankfurt am Main) Reichsgraf with improvement of coat of arms and appointment as field marshal lieutenant. First he was captain of the Schlaner district from 1710 to 1712, captain of the Leitmeritz district from 1727 to 1729, imperial council, 1735 to 1738 K. and k. Governor of Bohemia, Supreme War Commissioner and envoy to Berlin in the revolutionary year of 1848. As a landlord on Bieloschitz, he had the new Veltrusy Castle built in place of a previous building in 1716 in Weltrus, north of Prague, the estate of the marriage estate of his wife Maria Theresia, née von Scheidler (Zeidler) , according to plans by the architect Franz Maximilian Kaňka . The art-historically remarkable building from the Baroque period in Bohemia was owned by the Chotek family until the end of World War II . Since 1740 Wenceslaus Anton Count Chotek was the owner of the Tomichan estate in western Bohemia.

He was buried in the new Chotek family vault in the Church of St. Martin in Kosel .

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